LINCOLN CODNTY LEADER
CHAS. F. & ADA E. SOUI.II, Tub.
TOLEDO OREGON
That piano trust will make music.
When the doctors fall out the bacilli
give themselves over to cachinnation.
The newly formed starch trust ex
pects to polish off all its rivals prompt
ly. The cat that is said to have fallen
sixty feet unhurt may have only eight
lives left.
In view of burglars entering all sorts
of buildings, isn't it odd none of them
get into the jails?
Often a man who lias eight or nine
eons thinks he has done all that is nec
essary to hand his name down to future
generations.
Andrew Carnegie says poverty is a
Messing. It is quite a while sluce An
drew tried it, however, and he may
have forgotten.
After all, why should there not be
combines among place-holders for their
particular benefit? Is not public office
11 public trust?
The Czar believes that universal dis
armament wiii come, but he is wiiiiiiK
to admit that present complications
may delay it a little.
' In spite of the prevalence of newspa
pers and coroners' Inquests people aie
still turning on the gas and trying to
blow out electric lights.
As a rule of life it is well not to de
pend too much on simply being square
or upright to escape being played upon,
iook even at the pianos.
Ultimately the truth gets out about
men. Some are not so bad as they are
painted, while others are infinitely bet
ter than amateur photographers make
them.
If the Nebraska school-teacher who
whipped the entire class of boys single-handed
does not become famous
later in life so that this story may be
told about hi in lie will go against all
precedent.
A valued exchange refers editorially
to u man who had "to rise at 5 a. m. in
the morning." Still, his case wasn't
no bad. If he had been called upon to
get up at 5 a. m. In the evening he
might well have grumbled.
A Chicago man shot and killed him
self the other day because lie feared
hydrophobia as a result of a dog bite.
So-called cases of rabies among human
beings are largely the result of Imagi
nation. Tens of thousands of people
are bitten by dogs every year without
tierlous effects.
Thousands of readers felt a personal
sense of loss on reading of the death
of It.' I. Hlackmore, the author of
the exquisite romance, "Lorna Doone,"
one of the books which have held
people of all ages and degrees by its
powerful charm and which is reasona
bly sure of retaining Its fame into the
next generation.
A preacher lias resigned because he
wnnts tin privilege of dancing when lie
feels like It, and, to use his own words,
"of occasionally slapping a friend on
the back and saying, 'Hello, there,
lUll!'" That poor fellow's parents
ought to have known from the begin
ning that nature never Intended lilm
for the ministry, lie was born to drive
a coal wagon.
Jay fiould died leaving his sons and
tin ugh tors a fortune of $70,000,000. Oue
daughter married a titled foreigner.
Count Honl de Castellaue, of France,
and there was a grand wedding. Hut
the titled foreigner was a disappoint
ment. Before the honeymoon was over
lie began to furnish sensations for the
yellow newspapers of Purls and New
York. The other daughter took a li
ferent view of life. She would not be
A butterfly, but a bee. Following out
her Ideal she lias made the name of
Helen tiould the sweetest name In
America. Every working girl in Now
York Idolizes her and there Is scarce
on Atocrlcan soldier or sailor who
would not die for her. Which of these
two, think you, chose wisely?
About ten years ago a young widow
With three children went to New York
necking employment. The eldest child,
a boy of fifteen, had beeu before the
mast, and his boyish boast of the dif
ferent knots he could tie inspired an in
ventive woman to order of him a screen
of tied rope. The effect was so odd
and beautiful that a paying industry
lu ropework resulted. By the com
bined efforts of the family, one daugh
ter has been enabled to study art In
Paris, the other has lately graduated
from Cornell, and the boy Is a civil en
gineer of much promise In the govern
ment service. "My resources are what
we ourselves can do," said Frederick
he Great to hid discouraged generals.
The dictum is no less applicable to each
inquirer to-day. .
Theie are a few people still convinced
that the twentieth century lias begun,
and there are others who are halting
between two opinions concerning the
matter. Most of the accepted authori
ties of the world agree that the twen
tieth century will not begin uut.l Jan.
1, 11)01, and this will be the accepted
decision the world over of this much
discussed question. It is evident, or at
least it seems that any oue ought to
consider it evident that the nineteenth
century will cud after 1,!)()0 years have
been completed, or at midnight of Dec.
31, 11)00. Tills being the case, the new
century will be ushered in at the first
moment of time of Jan. 1, 1001. It is
curious that such a simple problem
should have proved so vexatious, but it
illustrates how easily a quibble may be
made to appear logical. Those who are
convinced that this is the first year of
the twentieth century will doubtless
continue to hold that notion until pub
lic opinion has become so settled that
to go opposite to it will result in ridi
cule. That will end the debate.
News that Great Britain may have
to fall back upon a supply of dum-dum
bullets f r use hi South Africa causes
a shock to our conventional seutiments
about what is called "civilized war,"
says the Chicago Journal. And yet if
both combatants used the dum-dum
bullet it might hasten the final result
without he!::;; Inconsistent with their
general intentions toward each other.
War is no longer waged naturally and
honestly and on Its merits. We have
It refined and conventionalized in a
ludicrous attempt to disguise its real
character and minimize its necessary
horrors. The Immediate object of the
soldier lu battle is the swift death of
the other fellow. The ultimate object
of the government is to punish the en
emy nation until It quits. Disguise it
as we will, it is organized manslaugh
ter. If we were natural and honest
about it we should proceed toward that
end by doing all the damage to the
enemy we could lu as many different
ways as we could. Hut ambassadors
and envoys have got together like sec
onds before a duel and agreed that we
must be polite and make our mutual
hate look pleasant while it is having its
picture taken. So we dress up its
horrors lu attractive garments and
agree to use weapons of relatively
small efficiency and great tardiness of
execution. We may kill the enemy,
but we must kill him politely. We can
not shoot him with an exploding title
ball because that kills him too rudely
and shocks his nervous system too
much as If, when nations went to war,
they were not like ravening beasts,
drunk with the lust of blood. We can
not adopt any means at our disposal.
We can kill a man with a Jagged, sharp
edged plec; of shell, but mustn't shoot
with old nails and broken glass. It is
permissible to sweep down whole' com
panies at once with the fan fire of an
automatic gun, but we mustn't dispose
of our foes by Introducing even the
gentlest sedatives iuto his water sup
ply. These things are ridiculously in
consistent with the purposes of war.
It is like saying it is laudable to shoot
a man through Ills lungs, but unfair to
shoot him through the liver. It sug
gests tlie story about the fellow that
proposed to his big antagonist in the
duel that the latter should mark on his
person the outline of a man of average
size, and any shot that struck him out
side the mark shouldn't count. Would
It not be more consistent If a nation
used against an Invading enemy, for
example, all the resources and Ingenu
ity at Its command?
How to Cook Husbands.
A good many husbands are entirely
spoiled by mismanagement in cooking.
and so are not tender and good. Some
women keep them too constantly in hot
water; others freeze them, others roast
them, others put them constantly in n
pickle. It cannot be supposed that any
husband will be good and tender nmu
aged in this wny, but. as a class, hus
bands are really delicious when prop
erly treated. In selecting your hus
band you should uot be guided by the
silvery appearance, as In buying mack
erel; nor by the golden tint, as if you
wanted salmon. He sure and select
him yourself, as tastes differ. Do not
go to the market for him, as those
brought to the door are always best.
It Is far better to have uone than not to
know how to cook them properly. It
does not make so much difference what
you cook hi in In as how you cook him.
See that the linen lu which he Is
wrapped Is white and nicely mended,
with the required number of strings
and buttons. Don't keep hliu In the
kettle by force: he will stay there him
self If proper care Is taken. If he sput
ters or fizzes do not be anxious. Some
husbands do this; add a little sugar in
the form of what confectioners vail
kisses, but no vinegar or pepper on any
account. A little spice improves tlieiu,
but it must be used with Judgment.
Do not try him with anything sharp to
see If he Is becoming tender. Stir him
gently the while, lest lie stay too long
In the kettle and become flat and taste
less. If thus treated you will llud him
very digestible, agreeing nicely with
you, nnd he will keep as long us you
want, Philadelphia Telegraph,
ARE AN ODD PEOPLE.
TZIGANES OF HUNGARY HAVE
NO COUNTERPARTS.
letaln the Habits of Barbarians tn
Spite of Remonstrances Raiment
More Scant than Strict Decency Dic
tatesTheir Reclamation Abandoned.
Among the many races which make
hp the population of that heterogeneous
geographical expression termed the
Austro-IIungarlan empire certainly the
most interesting are those curious peo
ple called Tziganes in Hungary, bohe
mlans In France and gypsies In England
nnd the United States. Hungary is the
home of the Tziganes, In so far as they
have any home. In all other European
countries they were persecuted for cen
turies as being emissaries of the evil
one and enemies of Christianity, but
Hungary took pity on them and treated
the wanderers like lost children. There
are now about 150,000 of these Tziganes
in Hungary.
One of the favorite abodes of these
strange people Is near the frontier of
Croatia. It Is there that the typical
Tziganes may best be seen. Their
"camps" are always set up at some dis
tance from the nearest town or village;
often iu close proximity to some forest.
The Tzigane huts for they are nothing
UIGI'0 COilo.St Of a. bujle i'uuui, Uiiieaa
the owner Is extremely well to do, and
are generally devoid of furniture. The
Tziganes eat and sleep on the bare
boards. At; all times of the day there Is
a smoldering lire In the hut, over which
hangs a sandstone pot, for the Tzigane
has no fixed hour for his meals, but eats
whenever he feels hungry. The ordi
nary bill of fare consists of potatoes,
stews, milk and lard. On festive ecea-
slons such titbits are Indulged in as
hedgehogs, foxes and squirrels. Cats
are considered by the Tziganes a prluce
ly diet and they train dogs to hunt
hedgehogs and foxes.
Tzigane women, as a rule, go about
half naked, the young girls wearing
nothing but a small apron, excepting
when they go to the neighboring town.
The men wear but little clothing, and
until the time of their marriage (be
tween 12 and 15 years of age) they also
go about almost naked. After mar
riage, however, they attire themselves
iu the gaudy Hungarian national cos
tume, of which they are very proud.
Cast-off garments of some Magyar no
bleman they particularly prize, and
when they are able to obtain a bright
red coat their satisfaction is complete.
The Tziganes have a horror of work or
restraint of any kind. Even those who
have a fixed residence line to roam
about when they feel so Inclined. So
strong Is this wandering Instinct with
them that they have no word In their
language to slgulfy "remain." Most of
the trades they adopt are suitable for a
nomadic life. They are either horse
dealers, blacksmiths, sheep shearers or,
and above all, beggars. It Is quite Im
possible to take a country drive
through some provinces of Hungary
without coming across a band of Tzi
ganes, some oue of whom will surely
follow a carriage for half an hour or
more until he has received a coin. The
Tziganes have given themselves the
nickname of "poor men" and the habit
of begging Is so thoroughly rooted In
thea that even well-to-do members of
their race, whom one occasionally meets
In Buda-Pesth, driving pure-blooded
horses and wearing costly Jewels, can
not resist the temptation of asking for
money.
Many unsuccessful attempts have
been made to rest a n the vauab md pro
pensities of the Tziganes. Emperor Jo
seph II. once tried to compel them to
have a fixed residence, and nlloted them
land, distributed agricultural imple
ments among them and ordered them to
cultivate their acres. But Instead of
taking up their residence In the com
fortable homes they had been presented
with the Tziganes turned the houses
into stables for their horses and cows
and set up tents near by for their own
use. To prevent the corn given them
for seed from sprouting they boiled It.
But the Emperor was not discouraged,
lie abolished the Tzigane language, as
he had already done away with the
Magyar language; did away with the
very name of Tzigane, and finally took
their children from them to be educated
by Herman and Huugarlan farmers,
who were to bring them up according to
a strict code of discipline. But the little
Tzlgaues grew up with all the Instincts
of their race, nnd at the first opportuni
ty escaped and rejoined their parents.
A few yenrs ngo a Tzigane who had
been adopted ns a child in an Austrian
family entered the army and rose to the
rank of captain. Oue day, without any
warnlug. he disappeared, nnd six
months later he was found among a
band of wandering Tziganes. Liszt, th
great pianist, once tried to tame a young
Tzigane. He took the boy to Paris,
gave him teachers aud tried to bring
him up in a conventional manner, but
the effort was useless nnd the young
bohemlan had to be sent back to his
native laud. There are a few excep
tions which prove the rule, for lu Tran
sylvania some peasants are Tziganes
and enjoy a well-deserved reputation
for thrift and Intelligence. Others In
Transylvania have become wood carv
ers, masons and dentists. Home Journal.
TO FIGHT AGAINST THE BOEF,
Lord Strathcona Will Equip a Ford
of Canadian Rough Riders.
The offer of Lord Strathcona, Cana
dian high commissioner in Loudon, tc
equip at his own expense a corps of
400 mounted volunteers, for service
with the English in their war against
the Boers, has attracted considerable
attention. This splendid offer has been
accepted by the Dominion government
and picked men will be recruited from
the northwest and Manitoba. The es
timated cost of the force even for a
short campaign will be over $500,000
and if the war lasts unusually long the
figures may reach $2,000,000 or $3,000,
000. This 'act crowns many princely
donations made by Lord Strathcona to
various philanthropic and educational
enterprises In the Dominion.
LORD STRATHCONA.
Sir Donald Smith, Lord Strathcona
was born in Scotland 7S years ago. He
emigrated to Canada at an early agt
and reached this side of the Atlantic
with but little money in his pocket. He
was of an adventurous disposition,
however, and plunged into the life of
pioneer iu the undeveloped Canadian
West. He grew up with the country
and amassed a fortune. He has long
been oue of the wealthiest men in Can
ada and is President of the greatest
concern iu the Dominion, the Montreal
Bank. He is also President of that
great corporation, the Hudson Bay
Company. As a director of the Cana
dlan raciflc Railway and one of the
largest stockholders of that railroad,
he has been an Important factor in de
veloping the West. Sir Donald has
beeu for nearly forty years connected
with Canadian" politics and has beeu
during the greater part of that time
one of the most prominent figures in
Canadian national life, both ns a
shrewd, practical politician nnd a great
financial power. As a patriotic Cana
dian nnd distinguished philanthropist
Sir Donald stands without a peer lu
the Dominion.
Prison Babies.
Very few people outside official cir
cles know what a large number of ba
bies are born every year lu the Infirm
aries of prisons and penitentiaries, the
little people always causing quite a
flutter of attentiveiiess aud excitement
among female Warders aud prisoners
alike.
Of course there is a vast difference In
prisoners, aud sometimes the person
least attentive to the prison baby Is the
mother herself; but, on the other hand,
the general body of the women prison
ers make the most pathetic efforts, by
means of all manner of trifling scraps
and odds aud ends, to fabricate articles
of wear and ornament for the out-of-place
little stranger.
Quite three fourths of the women
volunteer to tend it, and it Is often the
case that the most refractory and diffi
cult of the prisoners soften and greatly
alter by being allowed to do little
things for If, Indeed, It acts through
out like a veritable ray of sunshine
among the whole of the poor prisoners,
who generally manage to get themselves
Into great good humor by suggesting as
volubly as the prison rules will permit
fantastic names for the child. Within
a certain period of their birth these
children are taken away from the
mother and air tended elsewhere with
the utmost care and humanity.
Only Reward Asked.
One of our officers lu the Philippines
is very much disliked by his men. One
evening as lie was returning home he
slipped iuto some deep water. A pri
vate In his regiment, however, hap
pened to see him, nnd after some trou
ble succeeded in pulling him out. The
officer wns very profuse iu his thauks,
and asked his rescuer the best way he
could repay him.
"The best you can reward me," said
the soldier, "Is to say nothing about It."
"Why, my dear fellow," said the as
tonished officer, "why do you wish me
to say nothing about It?"
"Because, If the other fellows knew
I'd pulled you out they'd chuck me in!"
Central America Pyramia Builders.
Barring the Egyptians, the ancient
Mayas of Yucatan seem to have been
the greatest pyramid builders the
world ever saw.
A man may mean well, but you art
never quite certain of IU
BLACK WALNUT.
A Discarded American Timber Which
Europeans Appreciate.
The great size often reached by the
walnut tree, the richness of the dark-
brown wood, the unique beauty of the
grain sometimes found In burls, knots,
feathers and in the curl of the roots, all
conspire to make this the most ehol-ee
and high-priced of all our native woods.
Twenty-five years ago walnut was ex
tensively used in the manufacture of
fine furniture and finishings iu thl
country, but manufacturers adroitly
drew attention to the beauty of darkly
stained quartered oak, aud the use of
the rarer wood has greatly declined.
But all this time the search for tine
black walnut logs has gone on syste
matically, though quietly, the trade at
tracting little attention, though the vol
ume of lumber handled has been large.
Though found to some extent !u the
Atlantic States from Massachusetts
southward, the great source of supply
has been the central portion of the Mis
sissippi Valley. The walnut is at home
in the rich alluvial bottom lands of the
Western streams and in the stony lime
stone soils of the hills and mountains,
and In such localities the buyers have
left few trees unsurveyed. Throughout
Eastern Kansas, Missouri and Arkan
sas, as well as the States along the
Ohio and its tributaries, may be seen
few logs at this little station, a car or
two at that, with carefully hewn side
and painted ends, ready for the murket.
. If you ask where the market Is you.
will find thnt the trrent hulk of this ni re
lumber goes to Europe.
While we have been led Into an u
thuslastlc admiration for tine onfc,
stained according to the degree of an
tiquity It Is supposed to represent, our
European cousins have been paying
fancy prices for the rich black walnut
that we have allowed to go "out of
fashion." Berea Quarterly.
W. R. MOODY,
Who Succeeds to the Noble Work of Hit
Illustrious Father.
It is said to have been the wish of
the late Evangelist Moody that his sou:
W. R. Moody, should succeed hliu la
carrying on the work of maintaining
the large schools at Northfield and of
continuing the labors that he consi
W. R. WOODT.
pred himself to have just begun. Young:
Mr. Moody Is said to be a man of mark
ed ability, but not the possessor of th
powers and faculties that made his
father famous. In taking up this work
he must assume a wonderful task aud
the world will wish him success lr
this noble effort.
Food for Brain Work.
It is all right for the man who kv
bors all day in the open air to eat free
ly, but the man of sedentary habits,
the brainworker, must adapt his way
of living to his needs. He must be
well nourished, for the brain is incapa
ble of good work unless well supplied
with pure blood, but such a man can
not possibly furnish vital force to di
gest three large meals dally. If he
tries it nature will protest at every
step. The chemical changes of diges
tion will be Imperfectly performed.
The stomach will neither secrete free
ly nor churn the food with, cheerful
alncrlty; the pyloric orifice contracts
aud allows such chyme to pnss with
grudging reluctance; the intestinal lac
teals are ashamed to absorb such mis
erable pabulum, which chokes, Irri
tates and congests them, so the large
meal remains in the digestive organs
to ferment, putrefy nnd steep the In
dividual In foul gases and depraved
secretions.
B.U the system can furnish enough
vital force to convert a small meal Into
pabulum of high staudard, which will
be absorbed without difficulty. Three
such small meals are not enough to
keep the Individual properly nourish
ed, however; four to six will be re
quired. Each should consist of but
one or at mist two articles of food, the
diet to be varied by changes at meals.
The portion of food served must be
small; the patient must stop as soon
as the appetite is satisfied and gaseous
distension is proof positive thnt the
meals are still too large or too close
together. Sanitary Record.
Wood Tar Prep i red as or Old.
It Is curious to notice that wood tar
Is prepared Just as it was In the fourth
century, B. O. A bank Is chosen and
a hole dug, into tfwhleh the wood U
placed, covered with turf. A Are is
lighted underneath and the tar slowly
drips Into the barrels placed to receive
It.
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