Lincoln County leader., January 05, 1900, Image 2

LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
CHAS. F. & ADA E. SOITLE, Pubs.
TOLEDO.
OREGON
French anglophobia Is somewhat
eomplicated with Fashoditis.
Tbe American mule now has a chance
to make a new military reputation for
himself in South Africa.
There are people who admire a cheer
ful liar, but. a cheap liar has neither
tdrniration nor constituents.
There's something in a name. The
physician who give3 his patient's dis
ease old fashioned names will fall.
Now the mattress trust has decided to
advance prices. Feathers are down,
however at least a few feathers are.
An Important difference between the
Boer and the Spaniard as an enemy is
that the Boer can hit what he shoots at.
A father who tries to kill himself be
cause his daughter marries a cyclist
may be assumed to have the wrong sort
f wheel.
In the brave old days the crown
prince used to lead the troops to war.
Think of the Trl-ice of Wales in that
capacity!
The English writer who is expatiating
on the "Delirium of Dress" evidently
has a feverish anxiety about the habits
of other people.
That Oklahoma town which put itself
on wheels and moved to a railway line
certainly displayed true Anierican-git-up-and-gitativeness.
While diamonds may be advancing
even more In price the right sort of a
lover will be satisfied If the girl only
gets dearer and dearer.
A contemporary mentions the farmers
as the country's best stockholders. As
connected with the plow how about
their being shareholders?
If any other hero wants a home, a
sword, a silver service, or even so much
as a napkin ring, he ought to speak at
once. Fretty soon there won't be any
thing left but glory.
Zola says what impressed him most
In London was the number of hairpins
on Jlie sidewalks. London must have
adopted a measure of some sort to
compel the women to throw away their
concealed weapons.
A stage-struck woman Is suing a dra
matic instructor because he failed to
make her a star for $1,500. Some peo
ple couldn't be made stars for 1,500
times that amount No amount of
money will accomplish the Impossible.
A bigamist In New York complains
that he has been sentenced for marry
ing the women when in fact he only
married three. It is astonishing how
recklessly the courts will sometimes
deal with facts. The delicate shades
of difference between triple and quin
tuple bigamy should be held sacred.
The death rate In Cuba has this year
been far lower than the average, and
the death rate from the island's greatest
scourge, yellow fever, has been only
about half as high as the lowest ever
before recorded. Such facts are not one
whit less creditable to our army and
administration than the most gallant
conduct on the battle-field.
It Is too often the case that college
athletics are carried on almost solely
for the purpose of achieving victory in
Intercollegiate contests. TraVdug is
often governed by the desires or pros
pects of victory rather than for the de
velopment and recreation it brings to
the student The victory and not the
beuefits of preparing for a contest is
the Incentive. This is evident not only
in the manner of training but in the
manner of ncceptlng victory or defeat.
Our victors are frantically Jubilant and
our vanquished are hopelessly despond
ent. It Is unquestionably true that up to
a decade ago a great deal of advertis
ing was characterized by bluster and
exaggeration. The two essential fea
turesreliability and instruct I voness
which have rendered the present-day
plan of advertising In a popular news
paper so successful were In a great de
gree lacking. The mei chant seemed
to simply want to yell to the public
through the speaking trumpet of his
advertisements. On the other hand,
modern trade announcements engen
der in the public mind a confidence In
the advertiser which Is always certain
to have a profitable effect upon his
business.
The little State of Rhode Island ap
pears to be in an extraordinary situa
tion so far as its constitution Is con
cerned. That Instrument declares that
"the basis of our political system is
the right of the people to make and
alter their constitutions of govern
ment." The General Assembly three
years ago passed a resolution for the
revision of the constitution, and the)
Governor appointed a committee off
fifteen to do the work. The people in;
convention are the proper parties to do'
this work, as provided by the eonstitu-t
tion, but the Supreme Court has decid-!
ed no convention can be called for that!
purpose, as the General Assembly ha
no power to call it. This would secmj
to be a predicament with no way out
of it.
A lumber journal reports that 33.00C
men are engaged in cutting logs for the
market In what is left of the pine for
ests of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Mich
igan. The bulk of this forest denuda
tion is In Minnesota. Wisconsin and
Michigan's lumber supply is so nearly
exhausted that It now counts for but
little. At the present rate of destruc
tion Minnesota's supply will be exhaust
ed within ten years, and that will prac
tically be the end of our white pine
product. The days of the Southern pina
are also numbered. If it Is the Inten
tion of the lumber trust to destroy the
forests entirely to satisfy its greed it is
a little remarkable it has not put 70,000
men to work, or twice that number, so
as to make an end of them at once. The
entire denudation of the forests might
be easily accomplished, as forest iires
are now raging In various parrs of the
country. If the tree cutters, hunters
and campers would only combine their
energies and act promptly they could
quickly secure the destruction of the
limber Kupply and leave our wooded
districts a howling waste.
One of the questions agitating those
who concern themselves with the good
of the race is the alleged remarkable
falling off In the number of marriages.
Many acute minds have sought au ex
planation for this state of affairs, and
while suggestions as to the reason are
sufficiently numerous an adequate solu
tion of the problem Is so far still want
ing. Perhaps the most plausible the
ory is that emanating from a large
class of philosophers who make selfish
ness the root of all human action.
Building on this foundation, they al
lege that the desires of the modern
wife as to those surroundings of her
social position for the supplying of
which a big income is indispensable,
Lave become so exacting that it is im
possible for the modern husband, un
less particular:? fortunate in a finan
cial way, to supply them. Under these
circumstances, it Is said, the raw ma
terial from which husbaurls are made,
the bachelors, prefer to endure the un
questioned discomforts and lack of per
fect life harmonies in their solitary
Isolation, rather than suffer such sacri
fices as might be implied in their enter
ing wedlock. This theory no doubt
fairly elucidates the situation from its
point of view, but there Is still another
phase of the question that is well
worth consideration. Its possible In
fluence on the decimation of the mar
riage rate is not so obvious as the for
mer may be, but It may exist for all
that. Whether justly founded or not,
there are certain beliefs current among
men. usually, it is true, referred to in a
jocose way, that at a greater or less
period after marriage the wife becomes
exacting as to a husband's hours, hab
its, companions and expenditures, and
that where argument falls she some
times resorts to such force as she Is
capable of to enforce her views. In the
old days, in spite of these beliefs, wom
an was so generally .located as the
weaker sex that It. apparently had nc
deterrent effect on men inclined tc
marry. But what of the present? II
investigated it may be found this
lamentable marital defection Is con
temporaneous with the advent of the
athletic female. Every day we hear of
her exploits In some new field of en
deavor associated with such courage,
muscle and miscellaneous ability to
take care of herself, that the most
careless observer must take heed. Of
course, it is not to be asserted posi
tively that the development of athletic
females has had any positive effect on
the marriage decrease, but the Idea Is
given for what it is worth.
For Young 11 en.
Cultivate a pleasing address. It is
great essential to success and one thing
necessary to It is the ability to express
your idea in good, plain, smooth Eng
lish. When you speak let your lan
guage be the exact expression of your
meaning. Don't muddle up what you
have to say, nor abbreviate nor tell the
same thing over twice. Formulate your
idea. That Is, get a clear conception
of your meaning yourself. Then say
what you think In the plainest way you
can. Avoid the use of large words the
meaning of which some of your hear
ers may not understand. Speak so
concisely and clearly that If what you
say'wer.e written It would express your
idea exactly. Then besides clearness
there Is in conversation an elegance
that marks the good conversationalist.
To acquire this you should make a care
ful study of the dialogue In good books.
Listen to good speakers and try tc
catch their style. Get Into a way ol
putting what you have to say in a
smooth, pleasing way. This -require!
study and careful observation of othen
and constant vigilance to avoid awk
ward phrases and sentences, but you
can improve yourself In this wry 11
you are willing to undertake it
SLIPS OF THE TONGUE
THINGS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
SAID DIFFERENTLY.
Errors Into Which Clergymen and
Others Are Sometimes Led by Bash
ful nesa or Abent-Mindedneant or a
Little of Both.
Mainly About Teople has collected the
following curious slips of the tongue:
A fashionable congregation was once
startled by hearing the reverend gen
tleman announce that they were about
to sing "Hymn No. 35S From Iceland's
Greasy Mountains." After this they
listened with equanimity when they
were reminded that they should not
covet their neighbor's house, "nor his
'oss, nor his axe." Trenching before a
'varsity congregation on the Queen's
diamond jubilee, he remarked, Impres
sively: "Now, my brethren, you have
a queer dean, a very queer dean, a
very queer dean Indeed." As It was
widely known that he had recently a
serious difference with the dean of his
college, the slip was intensely enjoyed.
The same reverend gentleman once
assured his hearers that they all knew
what it was to have "a half-waruie'd
fish" within them. "A half-formed
wish" he meant. On another occasion
he referred to "Bon the Japtist." Feel
ing dimly that there was something
wrong, he tried to correct matters:
"No, no; I mean the Japtist Bon!"
. Another dear old college gentleman
had occasion to reprimand an under
graduate who had wasted two consecu
tive terms in youthful folies. After
lecturing the delinquent severely in his
queerly high-pitched voice, the dean
finished by saying: "I am sorry to
have to speak so severely to you, but
I am credibly Informed that you have
broken many rules of the college; you
have been incorrigibly lazy, and, to
cap it all, you have deliberately tasted
two worms!"
"Are you fond of music, Mr. ?"
"Yes," was tbe divine's answer, "but
I don't know very much about it I
don't think I have a very good ear; In
fact, the only two tunes I really know
are 'God Save the Weasel' and Top
Goes the Queen!' "
And this reminds one of a dinner
tale. The stage was dessert. Hostess
"What will you have, Mr. Jones?
There are nuts, oranges, figs." Mr.
Jones 'Tigs, fleas!"
At the licensing session held In a cer
tain west-country town recently the
chairman, dealing with the statutory
limit of bona fide travelers and getting
his expressions a little mixed, referred
to it as being "three miles as the 'flow
cries.' " A limb of the law who was
engaged In the case ventured to cor
rect his worship. With a deferential
smile, this exponent tried to amend the
phrase: "Your worship means as the
'fly crows' or rather," he added hasti
ly, "as the 'cry flows!' " No one was
sufficiently rash to make a further at
tempt. It. would not be a fair to mention the
name of the modern Mrs. Maiaprop,
who recently made the quaintest faux
pas. The conversation turned on a
forthcoming fancy dress ball, to which
nil the house party was going. She
was asked what dress she proposed to
wear. "I'm having a dress copied from
an old French print. It's the period
of the revolution. The picture is one
of Marat beiug murdered in his bath
by Charlotte Bronte!" It would have
been most impolite to correct her. and
no one ever knew whether it was mere
Ignorance, confusion of Ideas, or ab
sence of mind.
TRANSMITTED BY MOSQUITOES.
London Royal Medical Society Asserts
MutiHon's Theory to Be Correct.
One of the most important works un
dertaken by the Royal Medical Society
during the past year was assigned to
Major Ross, the well-known English
army surgeon, who was designated to
KXAMININO TUK MOSqUITOKB.
make Investigations with respect to Dr.
Tatrlck Mansou's theory that the mos
quito is the main means of transmit
ting the malarial microbe, which has
created such a dire havoc within the
ranks of the English army. Major Ross
went to Iudln to study the conditions
best in their natural state, taking with
him machines of the greatest delicacy
with which to pursue his Investiga
tions. 1
As a result of his labors he has de-
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I veloped that the mosquito, or a certain
j species of mosquito, the anopheles, is
j unquestionably the agent, if not the
' direct cause, of the wide spread of ma-j
laria through all the tropical countries.
Major Ross' report says: "We have
found (a) that local species of mosqui-!
toes carry malaria, (b) That these spo-j
cles breed In a few stagnant puddles.
"For many scientific reasons we have!
come to the conclusion that the truly,
malarial fever is caused solely by tht
mosquito probably entirely by the.
anopheles species. We estimate, theu.j
that most of the malarial fever can be
got rid of at almost no cost, except of
a little energy."
In the course of his Investigation he
has studied the mosquito most thor
oughly. Ills treatment of the Insect is
quite remarkable. The most striking
machine which he uses to facilitate hlsj
research Is a guillotine, which cuts the
Insect into sixty distinct and separate!
sections so small that every minute de-J
tall can be studied under the micro-j
scope. i
In order to do this the body of the
insect Is hardened by successive treat
ments with various kinds of acids and;
spirits. It Is then plunged in melted;
wax. When this wax cools It sets hard'
around him and enables the keen blade
of the guillotine to cut him into the:
most minute shavings, each of which'
can be mounted and then examined
under the microscope. j
In this way the minute stomach of
the insect Is stud'od carefully, and the
deadly microbe which he keeps there
discovered and examined.
THREE OLD BROTHERS.
Combined A sees of Three Russians Are
. Snid to Amonnt to 350 Years.
It is not popularly supposed that the
conditions which surround the lives of
the peasants of Russia are conducive
to good heaith or longevity, yet the
Russian papers have recently printed
THREE BUOTIIKItS WHOSE COMBINED
AGES AMOUNT TO 850 YEARS.
pictures of three pensants brothers
who ore, beyond doubt, the three old
est members of a single family alive.
The family name of the three remark
ableoldmenls Kovnlenko. Michael, the
eledst, Is 120 years old, the same age as
was Moses at his "passing." The second
brother is only two years younger,
having aheady celebrated his 118th
birthday. The youngest of this re
markable family lias seen 112 sum
mers and winters. The venerable
brothers are still rt.ong and healthy,
and have lived In the same place all
their lives. There is no question of
doubt about the correctness of the ages
given, for every Russiau must have his
"papeis," in which the date of his
birth Is officially entered, and without
which he cannot live iu any part of the
empire.
VELOCITY OF rALUNG.
In a Vacuum All Fall Alike -Not So
in the Atmosphere.
The old-time query as to which of
the two, a pound of lend or a pound of
feathers, dropped from the same height
at the same time, would first reach the
grouud, seems ever new. Some one
propounded it to the wise man of the
Scientific American last week, using
instead of lead and feathers an ounce
and a tone of iron. And this is how
the wise man responded:
"This matter was put to the test of
experiment by Galileo at the Leaning
Tower of Pisa In the seventeenth cen
tury, with two balls of lead, weighing
one' and ten pounds respectively. The
followers of Aristotle had taught for
centuries that the balls would fall In
proportion to their weights, the heav
ier one falling the faster. Galileo point
ed out the fact that the lighter one
would reach the ground first because
the air would resist the fall of the
larger one more than It would that of
the smaller. He had previously dem
onstrated the law of falling bodies that
the velocity under the action of grav
ity is independent of the mass of the
body. Experiment confirmed his posi
tion. The small ball reached the earth
first. In a vacuum all bodies fall with
the same velocity through any distance.
As a practical statement It may be
taken as true that small dense bodies
will conform to the theoretical laws,
falling any distance less than 200 feet!
iu the atmosphere. But with an ouuee
and a ton there would be a perceptible
difference. The ounce ball would fall
the faster. Facts like this are now
adays demonstrated by even elemen
tary students in almost every class li
physics In the country "
CENSUS OP DAIRY PRODUCE
Requirement of the lnw
The law requires the statifities for,
12th census of dairy product S
and factory) to be taken on eD
schedules. Beparai
The division of agriculture will tot
the amounts of milk and crem.
duced and sold and the SSfS
money received from their sales- i
the quantity and value of all the h ?
ter and cheese made oi the farm
On the manufacturer' s schdule will u
taken the quantity of butter and CW
made in factories, co-operative and oth
erwise, together with the quantity an,i
cost of raw materials (milk and cream 1
cost of labor, capital invested, eharao
ter and value of plant and machinery
After the two fm-mo nt i... .
, , , " ' Bl-UBQUlei
shall have been returned to the censng
office in Washington, the like statistic!
of dairy products on each will be con
solidated, and thus show, what never
heretofore has been shown, the total
yield of milk in the United States and
the amounts and values of its several
porducts.
This assertion is based on the a
sumption that the farmers shall fur
nish to the enumerators, fully and ac
curately, the information which tbe
scneauies may call tor.
iu. buiiio Bociions tne records ol
cheese factory and creamery operations
for the current year are destroyed
agreeably to previous vote of directors
or paU-uus. For 16u9 they should vote,
instead, to have prepared and preserved
for the use of the census enumerators
who will appear on June 1, 1900, the
statistics which the law says shall be
gathered.
in many cases a failure to do this
will prevent the enumerators from se
curing any returns, because new man.
agers, or new secretaries, or new boards
of control may be in charge on June 1,
1900, who will know nothing of the
iaciory statistics ol 1899 and the fig
ures for 1899 are the ones which the
law says shall be taken.
Farmers who keep no records of their
transactions will find themselves in the
same dilemma, on the arrival of the
census enumerator, as a factory which
destroys its records. Therefore, Chief
Statistician Powers is appealing to all
of them to prepare in writing,
while the necessary facts are fresh
in mind, such a statement of milk,
cream, butter and cheepe products as
will enable them to reply promptly and
accurately to the inquiries which the
law says the enumerators must make.
If they shall fail to do this, the sta-r
tistics of dairy products in their cotm
ty will be incomplete, and will com
pare unfavorably with thoso of counties
wherein the returns are more accurate.
THE POPE WORKS HARD.
How the Supreme Pontiff Fussei Each
Day at the Vatican.
Rome, October. 23, 1899. (Special Cable.)
Pope Leo is an early riser, and ky
that I mean a man who is out of bed
and at work at five o'clock in the morn
ing. He takes a light breakfast a
little very weak coffee with plenty of
milk, and a piece of bread, lie works,
reading or writing and receiving some
visits, until lunch time. In the after
noon he takes his walk, and when in
ordinary health spends some time
in the gardens of the Vatican; then
he returns to his apartment, where he
says his rosary. He may then receive
a few visitors, after which he takes a
nap and dines. At ten P. M. he reads
the newspapers and then retires for the
night. The Pope thus really works al)
day long, and latterly he has takei
nourishment four or five times a day
but always of a light character a lit
tle meat, soups, bouillon, a glass or
two of Mariani wine and a good deal of
milk, which forms the larger part of
his diet.
During his recent illness very little
medicine was given him; the physicians
relied principally upon rest, nourish
ment and stimulants every now ana
then, but always in small quantities.
The Pope's nervous energy, as al
ready noted in a previous letter, is
something remarkable in one of his ad
vanced years, and when he comes out
of his apartment he almost runs walk
ing so fast that his attendants can
hardly keep up with him.
When he is to be carried in state
into the Sistine Chapel, to attend or
preside at any ceremony, the clanking
of the sabres of the noble guard on
the marble floors can be heard a long
distance off, and several minutes be
fore the procession reaches the chape'
The Pope, it seems, although sleeping
well and enjoying his afternoon P
which he takes every day, doeO?0'
sleep so much at night, during whicD
he may get up several times, and even
go to work.