Lincoln County leader., October 13, 1899, Image 2

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Does Your
aking Powder
ontain
Mum?
Prof. Geo. F. Barker, M. D., University of Penn. : "All
the constituents of alum remain (from alum baking powders) in
the bread, and the alum itself is reproduced to all intents and
purposes when the bread is dissolved by the gastric juice in the
process of digestion. I regard the use of alum as highly injurious."
Dr. Alonzo Clark: "A substance (alum) which can de
range the stomach should not be tolerated in baking powder."
Prof. W. G. Tucker, New York State Chemist : " I believe
it (alum) to be decidedly injurious when used as a constituent of
food articles."
Prof. S. W. Johnson, Yale College: "I regard their
(alum and soluble alumina salts) introduction into baking pow
ders as most dangerous to health."
In view of such testimony as this,
every care must be exercised by
the housewife to exclude the over
and over condemned cheap, alum
baking powders from the food.
Baking powders made from cream of tartar, which is highly
refined grape acid, are promotive of health, and more efficient.
No other kind should be used in leavening food. Royal Baking
Powder is the highest example of a pure cream of tartar powder.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
The Advantage of One Eye.
During the late Spanish-American
war a certain old colonel who had lost
an eye at the battle of Gettysburg waa
very indignant !ecause he waa put
aside as physically incapacitated, when
he applied for admission to one of the
Kew York volunteer reiginents.
Filled with wrath and chagrin the
colonel journeyed to Washington, bent
on having a personal interview with
the president. He succeeded in gain
ing an audience, and the president,
after listening to his plea, said, kindly:
"But, my good Col. J , you
have only one eye I"
"Just so, sir," waa the prompt re
joinder, "but can't you see the great
advantage of my having only one eye?
When I aim my gun 1 shan't have to
close the other 1"
He fought at Santiago. Youth's
Companion.
Fur (he Children.
The management of the Oregon In
dustrial Exposition at Portland has pro
vided well for the children, whom we
have with us always, and whose Uvea
should be brightened. The feature of
the fair that gives them the most en
joyment ia the big steam merry-go-round.
They never tire of it, and as
they dismount from their prancing
steeds they are always happy and ready
for another ride.
Will Run Automobile Line.
Unable to obtain an electric railway
or to induce the Big Four Railroad
company to improve the service north
of Wabash, Ind., the citizens of North
Manchester have taken briskly in hand
the matter of buying an automobile to
run between Wabash and that place, .14
miles. There is a great deal of travel
to Wabash, the county seat, from that
portion of the county, but the Big Four
does not run its trains to accommodate
it. Negotiations are now on for a
horseless carriage with which it is
proposed to make three or four round
trips a day, carrying passengers for 75
cents both ways. If the project suc
ceeds the carriago will be put on this
fall and will be the first application of
the automobile.
FLINGS AT WOMANKIND.
.'Little Bit
The extreme point of Land's End,
the most westerly point of England,
lias been described as resembling the
head of an aligator descending into the
sea. A natural tunnel runs right
through it, and ia about CO feet high.
Anthraoite ooal on Bellinghain bay
has been found to be big discovery.
Mothers will find Mrs. Wlnslow'a Sooth
lug Syrup the best remedy to use for their
children during the teething period.
Recently a ship of only 2,600 tons
carried from Fara, Brazil, to New
York a cargo of rubber, which waa
Insured for $3,000,000.
PORTLAND DIRECTORY.
Fne and Wire Works.
I'ORTI.ANI) WIKK A IRON WORKS; WIRE
and Iroti teuoiiifr ; olllce railing, no. iUtAkler.
.Machinery anil Supplies.
CAWSTON & CO.: KNCSINKS, BOILERS, MA.
cliinory. supplies. 48-4U First St., Portland, Or.
JOHN POOLE, Portland, Orkqow,
can give you the best biiritalus In general
iimelnnory, engines, boilers, tank, pumps,
plows, belts and windmills. The new
I X I. windmill, sold by him, is unequalled.
Irony.
"Did ye iver notice a mon from St.
Louis?" inquired the janitor philoso
pher. "Will, if ye didn't it's worth
. 1 : 1 . TT xt. 1 . .
ijoi wuuiio. up in- oouievara ne struts
i wid hid ilevated. Suddinly thor'a a
I big commotion an' he'a lifted off hi8
I fate by an autymobile. He picks him
! silf up, goes home an' tills hia friends
th' horseliss carriages av Chicwo am
run by jackasses; but thot th' jackasses
are insoide. Oh, he '8 a bitter lobster. '
Chicago Evening News.
Fair at Tortland.
The music at the Oregon Industrial
Exposition is simply grand. It is by
Bennett's full military band, which
gives popular classic concerts after
noons and evenings. The amusement
features of the fair are never neglected,
and there are astonishing acrobatio and
aerial feata, grand cako-walka and
many other good thinga to delight,
surprise and please all who come.
Why It Succeeds.
There ia nothing remarkable about
the grand success that attends the Ore
gon Industrial Exposition at Fortland,
for it ia backed up by the enterprising
business men of Portland, who spare
no expense to make the great fair a
splendid success. The men who
conduct it are: II. C. Breeden, presi
dent; I. N. Fleischner, vice-presidwit;
R.J. Holmes, treasurer; W. S. Stra
ble, secretary; E. C. Masten, assistant
secretary; II. E. Dosch, auditor;
George L. Baker, superintendent; J.
P. Marshall, Ben Selling, II. L. Pit
tock, D. Solis Cohen, C. B. Williams,
Dan McAllon, A. B. Stoinbach, J. E.
Thielsen, D. M. Dunne, R. C. Judson,
L. M. Spiegl, Sig. Siehol, II. D. Rama
dell, B. S. Fague, General O. Sum
mers, Col. I. N. Day, George Fuller,
Captain E. S. Edwards.
Some of Which Smack Just
of the Truth.
A girl waa visiting in town who has
a diese trimmed with four miles of
lace, and her hostess ia thinking of giv
ing a reception lor it.
A woman who known how easily the
men can be fooled tells evervone who
kisseB her that it la the first time she
waa ever kissed by a man.
It occurs to a man with some wonder
that his wife never cot nn na mnh
enthusiasm over him when she wub a
bride as she gets up over the new little
red baby.
When a woman doesn't know of
anything elae nice to say about another
woman she says she has such "cute
little waya."
Every unhappy woman takes pleasure
in thinking of the time when he will
come baok, and it will be too late.
A good many girls have the notion
that some day they may be compelled
to sell their hair and pay off the mort
gage on the family homestead, as the
story booka relate. An Atchison girl
who had very beautiful hair became
very poor and agreed to sell it for f3.
After the hair had been out off the our-
. m
cnaBer reiusea to take it, saying she
could Ret a switch for $3 in Kansas
City that would answer. Atchison
Globe.
Cathedral of Cologne.
The cathedral of Cologne ia naturally
the chief place of interest in that fom.
ous city. It took almost six centuries
and a half to build, having been begun
in 1248 and finished in 1880. Its style
of architecture ia Gothic, and it has
eight chapel 8, which contain there
mains of eight archbishops, and the
skulls of "the three wise men of the
East." The Church of St. Ursula is
decorated inside with the bones of
some of the 11,000 virgins who, with
St. Ursula herself, were murdered bj
the Huns.
War Museum.
It is worth a trip to Portland to see
the war museum at the exposition
there. Captain E. S. Edwards took
hia coat right off and went to work,
and haa gotten together the largest col
lection of war weapons ever seen in the
Northwest. Most of them were cap
tured in the Philippines by the Ore
gon volunteers. The museum ia the
carrying out of an idea suggested and
followed up by Dan McAllen, one of
Portland's most enterprising business
men, and it ia all for the benefit of the
monument fund.
HOW A KING KEEPS COOl
Monarch Site in a Olaas Palace on the
Bottom of a Lake.
It remained for a barbarian poten
tate of the East to devise the most
perfect means of keeping cool In the
burning heat of summer. Here, those
of us who can afford the change, close
up our housea In the city and hie to
the seashore and to the mountains,
where we make a pretext of keeping
cool and looking happy. But this Ori
ental despot never closes his palace,
nor spends his time fighting mosquitoes
or other pesta at the seashore or in
the mountains. He Just steps into a
luxuriously fitted glass palace, gives
a signal to his henchman and is lower
ed into the depths of a pellucid lake,
TBS KINO OF SI AM.
where he can see the fishes disport
themselves and" observe other Interest
ing sights of the watery depths.
This interesting potentate of the
glass submarine palace Is the King of
Slam, He has a very long name, fifty
seven letters in nil; but for short he Is
called Chulalongkorn.
The glass palace of the king Is 20
feet square and 15 feet in height. With
the exception of the floor It !s entire-
ly of heavy plate glass closely fitted
into steel frames. The floor Is of
wood and steel, and directlv under it
is a second or false floor, Into which
are stored weights of stone. When
floating all these weiehts are removwl-
but when his majesty desires a cool
ing, tons or them are rolled In and the
room slowly and silently sinks until
It rests upon the bottom. It Is then
at a depth of about twenty feet, and
so arranged that nn abundant minntv
of air Is obtained from numerous tubes
leading to the surface. Bv menna of
other tubes he la enabled to hold con
versationa with those In the royal pal
ace on shore, and also to transact state
business. The furnishings of this sub
marine castle are as lavish .na. thnoa
of the Imperial palace.
This fastidious potentate of Sinm i
a young man, but despite his age he
has GOO wives. Notwithstanding this
large assortment, however, he Is so
sacred and mighty that he must marry
nobody beneath him In rank, and his
only equals being members of his own
family, his official wife must, therefore,
be his half-sister. She rules the hnmm'
In looking at this semi-hentiion Hn
It Is hnrd to believe that he Is the sa
cred ruler over 8.000.000 neol nrwi
still harder to appreciate his absolute
power. I he whole people are his
slaves, and his himple word lnflWa in
stant death on any man, or robs blm of
ms property or family. TT hna w
right to call his subjects Into his ser
vice without pay at any and all times,
ttuu every man in Slam Is forced to
give him part of his services dnrinr
part of each yenr.
Although Slam has no national ay,
he taxes the people as h nipn.
l AUU
bo heavy are these taxes that men are
onen rorced to sell their wives and
children. By this meana th t,-i
vaults are filled with treasure, and his
yeany income is 510,000,000. This he
squanders in enriching hia personal
surroundings.
A "HOT" COLD BANQUET
Some Inside Information by . ,
Troni the Bowery Who Hei.V.T ."
Serve It. ' d
One of the waiters at a popular ,
restaurant is a bird of n..,- " local
and was a ...O...T" 'T'H
uowery and was a uieml... . u
small army that served h '
uunur jjiniipr in M,.. .
ew
April. A good many stories have h.
told of that memorable event bnf .
of them surpass hia own in pol,, ?
pioiuresquenesa and inside detail t
waa the funniest push I waa ever in
!,Vne, ?'f?'" he Baya' oonfi.lentialll
"Tne kitchen waa so small they h.,1 ,
cook everything on the outside
when it got theie it was dead'eoj
The second course was ha.Llock ,nj
each fish come served in a linen baF
so we could put 'era in tubs of hot
water and warm 'em up see? Well
some of the boys got rattled and 8emii
'em bags and all, with egg 8aU(:eoTe
th' outside. Say, you'd of .lied laush.
ing seeing them fellers tryin' to oaivs
their fish. 'This is the touj-heat auld
haddock I iver tackled in me life,' eat,
one Tammany man at the head 'table'
'it's got a skin like a rhinoceiia ' aavi
lie. In the kitchen there waa'ariot
all niht long. It waa so small the
waiters couldn't reach the dishere-on
and they got to scrapping for fiont
places in the line. One man ai
knooked stiff with a turkey, and when
tllPV nlnlfflrl hirn tir I t.r.T.i . i
. . . i i u,. i ...Oub.u iio wai
dead. I did, on the level. But it
wasn't blood. It waa only cranberry
Bauoe. Anothei flunkey fell into the
Balad and one of the cooks put a can of
ice oream in the oven, thinking jt wm
brown gravy for the beef. That's on
the square just as I'm telling joul
But the woist of all was when we came
to the wine. It waa 'Merican cliam
pagne in half pints, without ice, and of
all the kicking and holleringl One
fresh gent told me it waB the only
thing he had had that night that wai
good and warm, and he hardly said it
when a waiter that waa a little jagged
accidently poured about a quart of boil,
in' coffee down the back of his neck.
Say, you ought of heard him cuss.
Between you and me, a good many
waiters got to hitting the wine, and
they found one of 'em with lS empty
bottles in hia pants leg. Tliat'i lion
est. I saw it myself. It waa the hot
test banquet 1 was ever at." N. 01
Times-Deinooiat.
The Philippine War
Is proving more st ubborn than anticipated.
It needs a vigorous contest to straighten
matters out. We should tackle the Phil
ippines and overcome them as Hostetter'i
fctomacu Bitters does dvspepsia, indiges
tion, malaria, fever and ague. The battle
is short and decisive, and for fifty years the
Bitters have always won.
There is nearly $13,000,000 in the
United States treasury, the proceeds of
sales of cotton which fell into the
federal handa during the civil war.
Thia money belongs to the owners of
the cotton or their heirs, if they can
prove their claims.
"The Prudent Man Setteth
His House in Order."
Your human tenement should be given
even more careful attention than the
house you live in. Set it in order by
thoroughly renovating your whole system
through blood made pure by tikinj
Hood' s Sarsaparilla. Then every orgtn
will act promptly and regularly.
SaASaMilla
The Business Instinct.
Too many neonle
think of politeness In address as ap
proprlate In comDanv. hut
place to business. An Pmt.nri-n
ner is useful everywhere.
This axiom Is aniu&mfrw iti.io.-
by a story which Justin McCarthy
lue civu war, he says,
I happened to be standing on a bridge
In New York, amusing myself by
studying the crowd, when a shrill
youthful voice accosted m
'Cap'n, shine yer boots?"
The chance distribution fit mHU
titles was ready and lib! of v'
time, when so many soldiers were re-
iux-uung to civilian lire, and I paid no
attention to the invitation.
Just then a rival bootblack passed,
and Imagining where tho
Indifference lay he dot.
pushing past the unsuccessful claim-
ul ue gave me a military salute and
appealed to me with th Mfi...
words: .aimg
'Brigadier general, shine yer bootsr
I had my boots shlned on the spot.
The most wretched lnni-i
know anything about Is an unsucces
tut 41CUU
TVlftra ara ohMil RAlt enonina ftf YlllTTt
ming birds, all natives of America,
ana most ol them confined to uenirni
and South America.
Th.Ml...u A.. . Alll
.uviv ib wure uttnrri in mis suuuuu
country than all other dlxrssei put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to M
Incurable. For a great many years doctor! prc
nounppd it inr i ,4 j ' , jkaiI local
iwvai uitjconci dku iinovnif
remedies, and by constantly tnlling to cat
With lnn1 trAmAw it rnrmrftble
science has proven catarrh to be a const J
tlonal disease, and therefore requiros constitu
tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure.m
Jifactured by F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo. Ohio,
is the only constitutional cure on the market.
It ia taken internally in doses from 10 dropeti
a teaspoon ful. It acts directly on the blooa
and mucous surfaces of the system. They oner
one hundred dollars for any case It Ml.?
cure. Bend for circulars and testimonials. A
dr0e"?lv - F. J. CHENEY 4 C0 Toledo, a
Sold by DniifglRts, 75o. ,,
Hall's Family Pills are the best. ,
The least troublesome and most pro
fitable animal to raise in this country
ia the sheep.
Improved Train Equipment.
The O. R. & N. and Oregon Short
Line have added a buffet, smoking and
library car to their Portland-Chioago
through train, and a dining car servio
has been inauguarated. The train i
equipped with the latest chair cars,
day coaches and luxurious flrst-olasi
and ordinary sleepers. Direct connec
tion made at Granger with Union fa
ciflo, and at Ogden with Rio Grande
"". irom ail points in Oregon, wau
ington and Idaho to all Eastern cities
For information, rates, etc., call on
ny O. R. & N. agent, or address W.
H. Hurlburt, General Passenger Agent,
Portland.
A snail's pace was carefully observed
In Florence, Italy. Several of the mol
luscs were placed between two poinW
ten feet apart, '.nd started. It waa
ascertained that the fastest snail in
the race traveled at the rate of a nil9
in 14 days.