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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1899)
$.1 .H I! ; i I 1 I. LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER CBAS. F. & ADA E. SOITLE, Pubs. TOLEDO OREGON Contradictory as It may seem, a fresh trust is a salt trust. As to flying machines being a suc cess, even air castles as a means of transporting young people ultimately tumble. Trunes cost 50 cents a dish at Daw eon City. Life must be one glad, sweet song for people who have to live In boarding houses up there. ter Is now regulated In houses by 6team heat In other words, that cold mny be turned on at pleasure and a uniform temperature be maintained in city dwellings all the year. As yet, how ever, these glittering and pleasant promises are not In the way of imme diate fulfillment. The expense of cold generating plants and appliances at present makes them not available ex cept in the case of great manufactur ing plants. That ingenuity and inven tion will yet conquer the difficulties and make it possible to supply cold as gas. heat and electricity are now furnished In the modern house seems entirely probable. Evidently the end of them Is not yet. Forming a sardine trust would imply gome think there are still as good fish in the seas as ever were caught A great difficulty In the road of put ting the Cubans in the way to help themselves is so many others who want to help themselves at their expense. The oldest poem in the world has re cently been found, and the critics will now be busy for a while trying to de cide who was plagarized by its author. If it's true that England always In sists on working disputed land where there happen to be gold mines into hpr possession it's a poor form of a ulueii rule. The world is enriched by the estab lishment of an outomobile magazine. This Is well. Nobody will deny that we need another magazine or that the automobile is in need of advertising. The man who Invented, three-card monte and the shell game died a peace ful death a few days ago. This was probably due to the fact that victims of three-card monte and the shell game generally prefer to keep as quiet about It as possible. Speaking of the dullness of many honest reformers; their inability to get beyond small retail methods of admin istration; their lack of public imagina tion; of civic pride; of power of initia tion and of quick sympathy with pop ular aspirations, Dr. McKelway says: "The political freebooters often take these things Into account, with results that make the mercurial masses prefer brilliant brigandage to Incompetent in tegrity.'! The alliterative wit of this remark need not make us forget its wisdom. The lynching problem has been eolred. An Eastern editor proposes that In all regions where mobs and lynchlngs are prevalent sheriffs and deputies should be armed with kodaks. When the mob attacks the Jail the deadly Instrument is turned upon it. No would-be lyncher, It is urged, could hold his ground. The only trouble In connection witli this proposed method Is the fact that lynchers usually oper ate In the night. However, It might prove effective to scatter officers among the mob to make flash lights brilliant enough to reveal the Identity of the mobbers. The Idea is a brilliant one. In spite of the present boom, there Is going to be a hard light before the Automobile wins the place predicted for It by Its devotees. The greatest problem will be the reform of roads. The bicycle lias done wonders in tills direction, but the bicycle is too meek and unassertive to accomplish n complete reform. All It nRks Is four or five Inches of un epolled ground at the edge of the road. and there, If other carriages and traps do not botch Its work. It will make for Itself a beautiful velvety little path which answers as well as the broadest of turnpikes, so long as dn.vllcht lasts. But the automoble, though occasionally built In blcycllcal form, demands more for effective use. It must have a rea carriage road, built with a thorough ness and excellence not usually to be found In this country outside of the great state turnpikes and such pieces of model road as Massachusetts has been building. Rut while a great nre Umlnary Investment Is thus called for. nn oven greater financial return Is to be looked for from the general adoption of the automobile for traffic. Even at present there Is no comparison between the cost of steam and horse power ovc good roads, and the saving will be greater as the mechanism is Improved From an Investigation of new pat ents and patent applications at Wash ington It Is evident the inventors are turning largely to the attractive field of effort found In devices for taking the place of Ice. So successful are some of these that enthusiastic pro moters already predict the passing of the Iceman. Devices for producing nrtlflclal cold are multiplying with great rapidity and while some of these are of but limited aud costly utility others give promise of being able to meet common wants and necessities lu the heated season. Even at present large business concerns have almost abandoned the use of Ice for ammonia gas nnd other chemical devices, and It la predicted that before long It will be possible to moderate the heat of sum mer just as rapidly as the cold of win- WORLD'S MOST NOTABLE FERR'f A Great Knjtineerliit Fent Accom pliofard nt Komn in France. The difficulty of transporting people, vehicles and merchandise from one bank to another of a busy river without the t necessity of building a bridge, which would interfere with the free passage of ships, has bee?) overcome lu a most ingenious manner by the wen. A generation ago schoolboys used to find In the center of the map of Italy a section entitled "States of the Church." Since 1S70, when the Italian troops marched Into Rome and took posses sion of it as the national capital, this title of the Pope's temporal dominion has disappeared from the atlas; but the Pope has not renounced his claim to be the rightful sovereign of the mediaeval states of the church. When the Italian kingdoms and principalities were united by Cavour's diplomacy, King Victor Emanuel's campaigns and Garibaldi's valor, Rome was the only possible national capital. Cavour de creed that there should be a free church in a free state, and the Italian Parliament has resolutely refused to recognize the rights of temporal sover eignty once exercised by the Popes. Rouie in the course of thirty years has doubled Its population and become one of the great capitals of Europe. The Vatican has been helpless in this con flict with the state. Its Swiss guard could not offer resistance to the nation al army, but could only perform police duty at the Vatican andjthe Lateran where the old-time Fnpal privileges are preserved by law. The Vatican, how ever, hns clung tenaciously to the tradi tions of Its ancient rights, and refused to make any compromise with the state. Tlus IX. nnd Leo XIII. have taken the same position on this ques tion, and charged the state with usurp ing what once belonged to the Latin Church exclusively. This Is a brief statement of what Is known In Italy as the conflict between church nnd state. It is a bitter quarrel between the Vatican and the Quirinal, and there Is no immediate prospect of any settle ment of the questions at issue. If the Vatican were willing to be reconciled with the Quirinal, Its position would be altcretl In Europe and its resources of power would be greatly diminished. If peace were made, the Tope would be regarded at the Austrian, German and other courts as the chaplain of the King of Italy. The government of the new. common wealth of Australia will have features resembling the governments of Great P.rltain, the United States and Canada, and some features peculiar to itself. Like that of the mother country and of every one of Its self-governing colonies, It will be administered by a cabinet responsible to the popular branch of the legislature. For the legislature Australia borrows the American Idea: a Senate, consisting of an equal num ber of members, six for each state, and a house of representatives based upon population. Members of both houses are to be elected by universal suffrage. Another American Idea Is adopted in a federal supreme court, which will de cide all questions between two states or between the commonwealth and any state, from which there will be no ap peal, even to the privy council of Great P.rltain. As in Canada, the nominal head of the government, the represen tative of the sovereign, will be a gover nor general appointed by the British ministry nnd not removable by the Australian government. The finances of the commonwealth, too, will be con ducted on the Canadian plan, for after the general expenses nre paid the bal ance Is to be distributed in fixed propor tion among the states. The greatest novelty lu the new constitution is the provision for the event of a "deadlock" between the two houses. In that case, both houses "are to be dissolved and new houses elected; nnd If the deadlock Is renewed the question at Issue Is to be decided by a majority vote In a Joint convention. The capital of the new commonwealth as In the case of both Canada and the United States Is to be removed from the controlling Influence of the great commercial cities. It is to be in the State of New South Wales, but at least one hundred miles from Sydney. Starting with a population of more than three and a half millions, nnd with six states for New Zealand will not Join It at present the great democratic commonwealth of the south ern hemisphere should have, and will have, most cordial wishes for Its suc cess from Its great English-speaking brother, the United States. A health from U. S. A. to Ausl SOLID WALLS OF WHEAT. Five Thousand Acres of GolJeu Grali on One Knnch in Oklahoma. Oklahoma's large wheat field lies ) few miles west of the small rnllwaj station of Bliss, in Kay County. Ii contains five thousand acres and be longs to the noted Ranch "101,'' whlcl controls fifteen thousand acres of lan( leased from the Pouca Indians. Twi hundred men, more than three hun dred mules and horses and twenty Wind m mJ lL are stretched twelve strong meet cables, with the ends firmly fixed In the ground on either side of the river, .lust beneath the curve formed by this cable bridge Is constructed a skeleton 1 i ran known French engineer, M. Arnodou, who has Just constructed one of his ; fom. b tw,ne blnderB were empioye(! 'ti-nTiciini-tai-a" nt nnncn. The ferrv as . ,.T , .... ,. . w iA,-i iviu m i n nn rr i n ir tinn cnn rinn run rr in i it may perhaps be called-conslsts of- n ou ma magulncent ueld thll two skeleton steel towers, across which Every principle of good farming wai observed in cultivating this big field, with the result that the total outpui will not be less than 100,000 bushels oi as good wheat as can be found in Okla homa. It Is estimated that the aver age acre yield will be from twenty tjj twenty-five bushels. There are manj. acres that will run from forty to flftj bushels. Buyers have already offered CO cents a bushel for the entire crop It Is probable that the owners will gej from GO to 70 cents, a gross sum ol $05,000 or $70,000. The cost of produc ing this wheat and putting it on board cars will be 25 cents a bushel, leavluj a net profit of nbout $35,000. Numerically, a five thousand-acn wheat field Is not very impressive. Tt ride over It, however, In blazing sun shine is to give rise to the feeling thai It covers the face of the earth. Tin five thuuftuud ucres of wheat on Hanct "101" are divided Into two fields ol almost equal size by the Salt Fori River. Great yellow undulations o! grain swept alongside the river and then away toward the distant hills, un til they seemed to reach the sky. Ii was so far across the fields that tin shocks look like a solid wall of wheat In the field on the south side of tht river the first circuit with a binder wai made by Superintendent Miller. "There was not a man who coulc guess how long it would take me t( I piled ( Neither can you cure catarrh application. It is a constat.,!. and is cured by Hood's Sarpa cause tt is a constitution,! . t. A. .. . r""J. I ,rum me wood the in which causes the disease, anrf and repairs the inflame , FERRT AT ROUE. platform between fifty and sixty yard, above the-level of the river, sufllcieutl high to allow of the passage of th highest-masted vessels. This pijuforr serves simply to carry four courses r! rails, upon which run sixty pma'i wheels In pairs. From these depend thirty steel cables of great strength, upon which Is hung a large cht In reality, the actual ferry nt an exact level with the quays on each side of the river and, of course, some distance make the round," said he, above the water. supply of twine on my binder and start Upon this vehicles of nil kinds even ' ed. I was gone four hours and trav trams nud omnibuses, and, of course, i eled six miles." people and merchandise are embarked j The distances are so great on th nnd, by means of electric power, gently ranch that it is impossible for the men floated over the river to the opposite to turn In at one place for their meals quay. The movements of the ferry are controlled from a small tower at the top of the car. The ferry and rolling apparatus weigh altogether nearly fifty tons, and to this was added, when the concluding experiments were carried out a few days ago, a load of over fifty tons, which was safely transported. The width of the river at this point is about 150 yards. The work Is a triumph of enginerlng skill, nnd is, besides, a most elegant construction. The loss of time would amount to hun dreds of dollars In a season. Accord ingly camps are established at differen; places, generally close to a stream where the men live In tents and th meals are prepared by ranch cooks. Kansas City Star. CHINA'S REAL RULER. Dowautr Empress Is 111, and Changes In Government Are Likely. Out from the walls of the forbidden and prohibited city, where live the members of the Chinese Imperial fam ily, conies a rumor that the Dowager Empress of China has been desperate ly 111 and that great changes are Im pending in the government of the ce lestial kingdom. The fact that the Empress Dowager nnd nil the members of the court are absolutely cut off from the outside world makes it almost im possible to get accurate information about any of the royal family. A largo Sultan l InqulMttre. The Sultan of Turkey Is most inquisi tive as to what Is said and written nbout him abroad. Every day transla tions are laid before htm from the newspapers of the world, and these are all closely perused. POWAOKR EMPKKHS OP CnilfA. section of the capital city of Teklng is surrounded by a high stone wall, in side of which nre the royal palaces nnd other state buildings. No one but the highest officials, coming on business of imperial Importance, is ever allowed Inside the walls. Even they are ob liged to dismount upon reaching the gate In the wall and proceed on foot to the palace. Nor do the members of the Imperial family stray outside the sntne boundary. Only once or twice i hns either the Emperor or his mother appeared beyond the wall. Within the prohibited city the Dowager Empress, now over 00 years old, Is supreme. What happens there Is an absolute blank to the world outside unless the old lady herself directs that the newt be given out A cynical bachelor says that If a woman talks only when she really has something to say there Is something wrong with her. When a married woman moves to BARBARISM IN CUBA. Fetish Pr'ests and Witch Doctors All fcxert Power Ov?r Natives. Among the obstacles to self-govern ment in Cuba recent observers couni as one of the most Important the powei which fetish priests and witch doctors still exer cise over the na tives. In the moun tains of Piuar del Rio stand the ruins of what was once the chief temple of the fetish faith ou the island. It Is still gunrded by an ancient priest, whose wants are supplied by the the people living In the vicinity, nnd who is looked upon with veneration by CD" fetwu wukst. all the nntlves. He is regarded as i witch doctor, and his advice is taker In all matters of Importance. In at effort to destroy the Influence of th fetish priests the Spaniards destroyed the temple, but It hnd only the effect of making the fetish worshipers prac tice the rites of their faith in secret All over the Island, It Is said, the wltct doctors now hold even more than theli old power. The priests travel from point to point in the disguise of for tune tellers nnd palmists. A Naval bolomon. Captain McB., a credit to his race says London Spare Moments, was onc In command of a troop-ship returning from India. On board he had as pas sengers three Indies, all wives of of fleers in her mnjesty's service. Now It fell out that the cabin allotted to them was fitted up to accommodate four, and consequently it coutnlned four wash-basins, one of which wai far larger than the other three. For the right to use this partlculai basin each lady put forth her claim citing her husband's position in tin army. But the husbands, unfortun ately, all proved to be of equal rank, so to settle the matter the trio bearded the captain In his cabin. "We will leave It entirely, to you captain," they said, "and abide by youi decision." Captain McB. cogitated, nnd then do tmreu soiemniy, with the faintest twiuKic in ins gray eyes: "Leddles, as It is no' a matter o" rank, I think it would be that the ni.i. est amnng ye suld have the beeges bowl." With murmured thanks, the ladlei Tons of Broom Corn Charleston, 111., claim. toowtttl largest hrnnm nnn. , " "irenouse 6toi age-room in the world 11 ity is nearly 2,000 tons, or 22 000 bales of "brush." TilT" one-quarter of the total tonnage ol tv ----- " produces!) ably two-thirds of the world'B m About 8.000 acres of m .J quired to grow the supply forthi warehouse, and it representa the 2 duct of over 100 farmers. From 9 -! l" jmuua ure required foil, planting and harvesting. This iJ' moth warehouse is a woon t ' covered and sided with corrugated tk Last year's crop taxed its capacit, rest of tho world has or needs in une, mere is always "brush" to btui. a tuia ug warenouse. Chicago Ir. buue. How It Worked. Mrs. Newlywed (reading)-LoTe j, a balloon that lifts us ud tn hum. marriage is the parachute that btiaji uo oiuwij intuit, wj eiiria agaiui Mr. Newlywed (also readincii. other parachute horror! Man fall. 3,000 feet and is dashed tn Same old story I Parachute fails tc workl Puck. Improved Train Equipment. The O. R. & N. and Oregon Short Line have added a buffet, smoking an) I library car to their Porthind-CliiciM through train, and a dining carservict has been inangnarated. The train it eqnipped with the latest chair can, day coaches and luxurious first-claa ami ordinary sleepms. Direct connec- tion made at Granger with Union P cifio, and at Ogden with Rio Gratult I line, from all points in Oregon, Wa ington and Idaho to all Eastern citia For information, rates, etc., call on any O. U. & N. agent, or address IV. 11. Hurlburt, General Puaaenger Agent, Portland. Queen Victoria loathes cats, and nt one in her immense household is per, mitted to own a cat. She has an mi' canny fear of them. The flg-tree leaves were sacred asi crown for Solomon. There are nearly 2,000 stitches in I pair of hand-sown boots. United States possesses 22,705 met chant vessels. - Many Pittsburg and Alleghen) moulders have been conceded what tbq struck for. At Chippewa Falls, Wis., the tele phone companies consolidated; ant forthwith the rate was doubled. town, who "hns monev of her own." flloil nut nin k.. . - . , . , - ..n...u, uui mm uasin wai the neighbors nre Informed of It be- never used during the voyage. fore she gets the house settled. . 1 Among the many things this eountrj No man ever sold his house and lot J1" ta a new " of oida to be use4 for as much as be asked f or It &e opinion, of tho pubUo An Excellent Combination The pleasant method and betieficia effects of the well known remeaj Strup op Figs, manufactured by tn California. Fig Sykup Co., illustrai the value of obtaining the liquid laxt tive principles of plants known to n medicinally laxative and present"" them in the form most refreshing ton jtaste and acceptable to the system. 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