The Quinlan Mirror. (Quinlan, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 16, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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Society's
Sins
Money Not Brains
Is the Ruling
Power
By MRS. STUYVESANT FISH.
MOUNTAIN SCALING
TALES OF ITS PERILS BY
WOMAN WHO KNOWS.
Difficulties and Dancers of the Ascent
Muit Be Carefully Weighed by
the One Who Would Climb
the Heights.
0IIE proper maxim for society should be:
"Anybody who is good enough for me to know is good
enough for my gueBta."
But you don't find it so.
To be rich alone is not enough. Very often to be rich
means to possess brains. There are plenty of people who have
both brains and nionev. We must not bar them.
But the time should come when brains will colmt for
more than mere money.
1 would have our society made more exclusive, more dig-
nified. I would have it harder to be accepted. I would have it so that
just the possession of mere money would mean little without birth, breed-
ing, good manners, intellect. Yet look at the people who do get into so-
ciety with nothing except money. How few know of the kicks and the
insults they have endured just to get in!
I have had things said about me behind my back because I might
choose to invite some clever, interesting, brainy people to my house.
"Why does she invite such people?" they say. "And why does she
persist in being so original? Why doesn't she ask us?"
As if it were original to invite men and women who have brains to
your house dinner. Heaven knows they are scarce enough! Yet some
people's idea of society is to hand you the tip of one finger when you are
their guest and then make faces at you behind your back.
"Oh, I can't go to Mrs. Jones' house any more. She had Mrs. Snooks
there at dinner, you know."
You can hear that any day in society. I have heard it plenty of
times. Somebody else don't like Mrs. Snooks, and because she was invited
to Mrs. Jones' then everybody who goes to Mrs. Jones' will not be invited
to Mrs. Smith's or Mrs. Kobinson's. Is that the proper plane for so-
ciety ?
But these very people seem to climb up into society.
Church
Aid
to
Peace
By FRANCIS H. ROWLEY. D. D..
Seldom in the history of the Christian
ihurch has there been opened to her a mo.'ii
superb opportunity to serve mankind than
that now calling her to reinforce and carry
forward the movement in the interests of th<
world's peace. Even should there be amonf
her minister s or her members those still pre'
pared, under certain conditions, to justify
war, yet no man fit to be called a Christian
can refuse for an instant to admit the obli
gat ion we are under to avert the horrors o
war, if it be possible, by arbitration. If war
must be, let it be only after the last possible
means has been exhausted that should hav
saved so dread and desolating a calamity.
There are three ways at least in which the churches can add to th
power and momentum of the peace movement. First, their ministers and
their teachers, with their rare opportunities to reach the generation of
te-day and the generation that shall be to-morrow, can make clear the real
^meaning and purposes of arbitration. * *
Second, the churches, through their ministers and teachers, may aid
the movement for the world's peace by laying upon the hearts of theii
people what has been so well called "the moral damage of war." Silence on
the part of the church is treason against her Lord, for whatever fin«
patriotism may have inspired the soldier to maintain his country's cause,
no sooner have the opposing forces joined in deadly onslaught than re-
venge, cruelty, injustice awake to trample beneath their feet every divint
and ennobling impulse of the human hart
Third, the churches can do more than any other forms of organized
activity toward advancing the cause of peace and arbitration by an un-
failing fidelity to those principles of the Christian faith that should de-
termine the relation every man should sustain towards his neighbor,
whether that neighbor live across the street or across the sea, and whethei
he be white, black, red or yellow. The church can go further than th«
great Declaration of 1776 that urges upon ns "a decent respect to th«
opinions of mankind." She must go further than teach us that we a«
not worthy the Christian name until "the brotherhood of man" is some-
thing more for us than a phrase to juggle with.
Can you imagine any power for peace equal to the Christian church
if she were to rise to her high opportunity? Were she true to her 4ioh
calling, as true she will yet be, she could outrival all the peace societies ol
earth in hastening the day when arbitration shall abolish war.
I hHve sometimes been criticised for
dwelling overmuch on the tragical side
of Alpine limbing, and perhaps with
some reason. Yet if anything I have
rrittea deters a would-be mountain-
«r from testing his skill and strength
agsUist the difficulties of a lofty peak,
then ♦ care not, tor surely he is not
of the stuff from which the true
climber is made.
Every disaster on the mountains, if
properly understood, should teach a
lesson, and if in a few caseB a catas-
rophe was unavoidable, its very rarity
should convince us that the sport may
be a comparatively safe one if we will
unly make It so.
An example—alas! It Is but one
amougBt many—of a catastrophe due
to venturing on a mountain too soon
after a heavy fall of snow occurred
on the Wetterhorn in 1902, when a
Scotch gentleman and his guide, Knu-
bSl, lost their lives.
The party on the Wetterhorn, in ad-
dition to Mr. Brown and Knubel, in-
cluded another amateur, Mr. Garden,
and a young guide, Imboden by name.
They reached the Bummit at length,
but on the descent they began to real-
lie that the steeper portions of the
snow-slopes were becoming unsafe.
The snow in the coulolrB grew worse
and worse, and tney were anxious to
get to safer ground as quickly as
possible, fearing that at any moment
an avalanche might start beneath
their feet, or rush down on them from
above and overwhelm them.
And presently it came!
Knubel was the first to perceive it,
and he had barely time to shout to his
companions before it was upon them!
They were Instantly swept off their
feet and dashed down the couloir.
For over twelve hundred feet the
four helpless men were hurled down
the precipitous gulle.v, and then, while
they were still on the surface of the
snow, it came to rest. Mr. Garden
and Imboden alone lived to tell the
tale.
The narrative from which I con-
dense the following account was writ-
ten for the Alpine Journal by the sur-
vivor, Mr. Stuart de la Rue, a young
man of seventeen. The object of the
excursion was to explore an untried
route up the Cima dl Rossi, a fine
glacier-clad peak near the head of
the Forno Glacier, in the Maloja dis-
trict. Mr. Way, his Bon of thirteen,
and Mr. de la Rue, without guides,
had spent the previous night at the
Forno hut. They started at 6:30 a. m.,
and took with them two short ropes
insl#d of one long one. After they
had climbed for about two hours and a
half the rocks became very steep and
difficult. They did not return, how-
ever, having determined to try to
reach the summit. Mr. Way was lead-
ing, his son was second, and Mr. de la
Rue last. Their progress was barred
at this point by a hard bit of rock,
and In order to get up this niauvais
pas before the other two advanced,
Mr. Way required a longer allowance
of rope, lie proposed, therefore, that
Mr. de la Rue should unrope the boy,
join the two ends of the rope, and let
Mr. Way advance to a secure position.
Perilous
Truth
It Should Be
Administered
in Small Doses
By COUNT OTTAVIO (UGO OJETTI),
Famous Italian Journalist.
"The Most Dangerous Snow of All It
New Snow Exposed to Hot Sun, Or,
Worse Still, to Warm Winds."
This waB done, and the two ends
joined with a reef knot. The rope was
now paid out, Mr. de la Rue holding
the end till Mr. Way was about forty
feet above the two others. He called
to those below that the rock was loose
and rotten. The boy was standing
unroped. As he realized the awful dis
aster about to occur, he cried, "Oh,
my God!" These were the poor
child's last words, and an instant latei
he was swept away.
A moment after the fall of stone$
Mr. Way fell from his ledge above.
Mr. de la Rue succeeded In holding
the rope, and trusted that, after all,
he might have managed to save hi*
companion, but what was his horror
when the cloud of dust cleared off, to
find that he had only a loose end in
his hand!
The knot had given way.
Hurrying down as rapidly as the
difficult ground allowed, he discovered
the lifeless body of the boy about five
hundred to eight hundred feet below.
Mr. Way could not be found, though
the young man followed the course of
the avalanche for some distance, but
the body was recovered that night.
MH8. AUBREY LE BLOND.
Some lfi journalists in London have planned to
found a newspaper that shall tell the whole truth, aud
publish every day with full particulars the great and
small scandals of the courts, of parliament, of tho
markets, of famous families. Naturally, this journal
of savages cannot be printed with the sanction of the
laws, which on rare occasions permit the publication
of the truth, but which always and explicitly prohibit
the publication of the whole truth; therefore it is to
he printed at some place—it is not known where-
on the coast of Belgium or France, whence it will be
dispatched under cover by the first mail to London
every morning.
As it is printed in English, the unknown men who are projecting it
are alreadv vaunting themselves as publishing it for moral purposes, be-
cause, especially in England, the banner of morals is the only one undei
which an immoral traffic can be concealed.
The whole truth! And in a newspaper! To understand the social
peril of saying and printing the whole truth about any and all things,,
there is no better way than to imagine what the streets, the houses, the
theaters, the parliaments and the madhouses would become if men walked.
about and lived in them nr'ved.
In telling the whole truth and in walking about naked one runs pre-
cisely the same risks. First of all, that of being locked up in a cell or a
lunatic asylum. Then that of having no friend who dares accompany
you or talk freely with you. Then, that of losing at once and forever
your good reputation, that is to say, the possibility of deceiving youi
neighbor about your own shortcomings.
~ For a man who does not want to wear clothes or who desires to pro-
claim aloud all that he believes to be the truth, there is no way except to-
go to live on a desert island; and even there it is certain that this original
hero would do much better not to tell himself those total truths which oth-
ers have not wished to hear, for, through telling them to himself and be-
lieving them, he might finish logically with suicide.
Truth is a medicine; a medicine so dangerous that the honest news-
papers are those which administer it to the public in small doses and at
set hours: and the expert,public knows this so well that every reader in or-
der to swallow this tiny dose every morning and every evening has it pre-
pared for him by "his newspaper," and not by any other, in the way that
is most suited to his habits, to his health and to his opinions. The same
dose prepared by a journal with other views puts him in a state of excite-
ment, or of anger, or spoils for some hours, often for the whole days, hi*
circulation and digestion.
And these Englishmen would scatter this poison broadcast in the
heart of the city! Fortunately they, by keeping even their names con-
cealed, confess that their newspaper of truth will have just the value of
an anonymous letter. The honest public is forewarned and will leave
the truth to beasts, to savages and to madmen, while it continues to live
hvgienicallv and to enjoy civilization, education, poetry, art, hypocrisy,,
morality a lid all the other delicate and tender gifts of divine deception.
REMARKABLE TASK OF A DEEP-
SEA WORKER.
The Man
Behind
Bars
By BEV. WILLIAM GARDAN.
Detroit.
It is not an uninteresting question to
consider the ethical values of the attitud*
and behavior of the average public towards
that very considerable constituency we tech
nieally speak of as the criminal portion ol
the human race. The MUM of what another
1 IlC thinks of one's self, what the other expect*
and looks for, and the social bearing one
cultivates each towards the other, has reallj
a vast deal to do with one's own behavior
and conduct. Right living is after all most
ly a social affair. All of us are good and
truthful and -sympathetic and law-observing
for the most - part in relation to somebody
else, or in relation to some standard that considers us as social beings.
These men who get behind the bars and are marked with the prison
brand and after a time come forth to the air and sun and freedom of
civilization—the problem for them is what to do with the world the
again come into and what the world that has branded them shall do with
them.
It is just this attitude of civilization towards the fellow who has been
behind the bars and has worn the stripes that is of the greatest possible
moment to him as he comes forth to a free life.
So long as this attitude is one of anticipation that he will do his
worst, in nine cases out of ten he probably will not disappoint this expec
tation. We are all governed to a degree by what is expected of us, and
the man who has been behind me bars is handicapped enormously by the
interior sense of degradation and loss of self-respect, and by the feeling
also that civilization questions his ability ever to do any better and by
the sense also that it universally distrusts him. He has necessarily au
enormous fight to make for a new footing and if he succceds it is certainly
A DIVER ON SAND
Foundation of the Famout Winchester
Cathedral Being Reinforced by
Unique Method to Save
the Edifice.
A wonderful engineering operation
Is being carried out at the present
time In the effort to save the walls
Crots Section of Wall where Diver )•
Working.
i®°tj>y the firaoe
and favor aud generosity of the modern world.
of the famous cathedral at Winches-
ter, England, a deep sea diver being
the chief actor in the process. It has
heen ascertained that almost the
whole cathedral standB on & bed of
peat, which Is, in some parts, eight
feet in thickness. Owing to the com-
pression of this substance, settlements
of the most serious character are tak-
ing place, and if the venerable fane
Is to be preserved It will be necessary
to excavate the peat and provide In
its place a solid sub-foundation. The
south transept, for example. Is over
four feet out of the perpendicular, and
ominous cracks are apparent. To
quote Mr. Fox, "the cathedral is
doomed unless it is underpinned, and
that without delay."
In the case of the presbytery (A. D
1202) it had been found that subsi-
dence had taken place amounting to
nearly 2 ft. 6 in. A trial pit sunk
in the vicinity revealed the existence
of a deep bed of peat below a clay
soil, resting upon a stratum of gravel
and flints overlying chalk. Uy means
of an excavation five feet In width
rfrijacent to the south wall, the bot-
tom of the masonry foundation was
reached, and it was discovered that
the wall had been built on a layer of
beechwood logs, whole trees having
been placed side by side horizontally
The level of the underside of these
timbers coincided with that of the
wat<tr in the subsoil.
Currying the excavation further
down, it was proved that the bed of
peat (in depth 5 ft. to 8 ft. 6 ia.) was
almost impervious to water. However,
when within a foot of the lowest layer
a great volume of water burst up from
the gravel bed below, an Influx from
the adjacent river. In the course of
a minute the whole pit was filled with
water up to the original level. This
condition of affairs led to the decision
to employ a diver In the work of re-
moving the peat, and assisting in the
necessary underpinning of the wallB
down to the gravel bed.
The diver's operations are not only
peculiar, but extremely arduous. The
pits that are sunk are absolutely dark,
owing to the water being thick with
peaty matter. Artificial light is not
possible, hence the work is done by
feeling. Upon the removal of the
peat the bottom is covered with bags
filled with concrete, carefully and
tightly trodden In all round. These are
then cut open and another layer of bags
placed on the top. These again are
ripped up, and so on for four courses
in all. The chinks and crannies be-
tween the bags are in all cases filled
by hand with cement concrete, low-
ered to the diver in buckets.
The resultant mass becomes prac-
tically a solid rock, and seals down
the flood of water from the gravel, ear
Aeroplane
the
Coming
Airship
By A. LAWRENCE BOTCH,
Dim tor Rlae Bill 0k enr«lory, to
President Aero Clukal New tallant.
The Diver Deicendlng to HI* Work.
abling the excavation to be pumped
dry. .Concreting is then continued un-
til a considerable height is reached,
and upon this blocks of concrete or
brick in cement aTe carried up and
tightly pinned to the underside of the
old masonry constituting the original
foundations of the cathedral. Mr. Fox
and the diver are the only people who
have made acquaintance with the work
below water, and great credit is ad-
mittedly due to the latter for the abil-
ity with which t\ combats the eatoep-
tional difficulties.
Up to the present time only the balloon
has enabled man to rise freely in the air to
considerable heights and to travel through
it for long distances. Soon after the invent
tion of the hydrogen balloon in 1783, it waa
proposed to control its direction, and our
illustrious countryman, Benjamin Franklin,,
after witnessing the early ascensions in
Paris, shrewdly remarked "that perhaps me-
hanic art may find easy means to give them
(the balloons) progressive inotbn in a calm
and to slant them a little in the wind."
Not until 100 years later was this suc-
cessfully accomplished in a cigar-shaped bal-
toon constructed by Meeera. Renard and Krc-be of the French army, which
returned to its starting point five times out of seven. This balloon, driven
by a nine-horsepower electric motor, attained a speed of 14 miles per hour.
The light gasoline motors which have been developed for the automo-
bile have been the chief factor in the recent'progress in aerial navigation,
and foreign military balloons, of the types of the ill-fated Patrie in France
and Zepelin's gigantic airship in Germany, the latter having double en-
gines of 160 horsepower and capable of carrying a dozen men, are pro-
pelled through calm air at a speed of about 30 miles an hour.
These balloons, therefore, are independent of a wind blowing with
slightly less velocity, which may be taken as the normal rate prevailing a
few thousand feet above the surface of the earth. The bulky gas-bag, with
its delicate fabric, cannot be driven through the air at a much greater
speed, even if sufficiently powerful motors could be built of the requisite
lightness. Therefore, it may be affirmed that dirigible balloons will al-
ways be influenced by strong winds, and cannot serve as a means of regu-
lar communication, finding their most important application in reconnoi-
tering and possibly in offensive warfare. ^
Authorities agree that the practical flying machine will be of the
"heavier than air" type; that is, it will not be supported by a gas-bag. The
speed which can be imparted to an aeroplane on account of its rigid con-
struction and small head resistance will enable it to make headway against
all but the strongest winds; but the high speed necessary to maintain such
a machine in the air will greatly increase the difficulties of launching and
landing, with the attendant danger to aeronauts and landsmen.
While the balloon is essentially a French invention, the first success-
ful motor aeroplane is American. The gliding experiments of Lilienthal
in Germany opened the way of the experiments in the United States by,
Chanute, Langley and the Wright brothers, the latter having no doubt
executed' the longest flight—24 miles, at the rate of 38 miles an hour—on
a machine heavier than air, three years ago. The French experimenter#,
Farman and Delagrange, have only this year flown a much shorter dis-
tance.
In view of these results, it cannot be denied that human flight id
not only possible, but practically realized, although many years may bd
required to perfect the art. It does not appear probable, however, that
flying machines of any kind can ever compete with vessels or railway)
trains in transporting heavy materials, so that such machines, besides
their use in sport and warfare, will be limited to carrying passengers o
the mails in an "air line," regardless of
mountains, lai.es, rivers, or political
frontier*.
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Tipton, W. B. The Quinlan Mirror. (Quinlan, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 16, 1908, newspaper, July 16, 1908; Quinlan, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc174353/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.