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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1900)
1 ! j ri t i 1 1 A I V j 1 1 LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER CIIAS. F. & ADA K. SOULE, Fob. TOLEDO ; OREGON It costs much more to avenge a wrong than to suffer It. Love's grand sweet song sounds best arranged as a duet. The woman with a sour face ought to apply for a position in a pickle factory. The Empress Dowager of China still hangs out the sign, "Hease shut the door." A misplaced switch A man found his fiancee's false hair on a table and broke off the eugagement. As nn Asiatic nation China Is not alone on the down grade. Corea also appears to be losing ground. A transportation company spent $2 In collecting 13 cents. There was certain ly more money than sense In tills. Curfews for children also have a moral for grown folks. It may be more or less serious if the law tinds them out. There should be nn official spanker to look arter 15-year-old boys who have a desire to reduce the world's supply of princes. cal colleges or the empire is limited to a fixed number. The University of .Moscow Is limited to 2r0. Kieff to 200, Kharkov to 17.". Dorpnt to l."o, War saw to 100, Tomsk to 120. and Kasau to 100. This limits the number of stu dents allowed to take up the study of medicine to about a thousand a year. The number seems small for so great an empire, especially in view Oi' the unlimited output of American medical colleges, but it is by no means certain that the autocratic Russian Idea Is an unmixed evil. A multiplicity of medi cal graduates eager to begin experi menting with their knives and boluses upon the defenseless public is not the greatest blessing of a land of liberty. THE MOUNTAINEERS. When a boy begins to be particular about the crease In his trousers It Is n pretty sure sign of an attack of the first symptoms of love. With regard to that boy's attempt on the life of the Prince of Wales, If the schoolmaster Is abroad he's allow ing the young Idea to shoot the wrong way. Even thf order of official precedence recently settled at Washington 'shows the common American longing on one man's part to somehow get ahead of another. Andrew Cnrucgl? Is only 5 feet 0 Inches long. If everybody who has tried to pull his leg had succeeded, however, he would be more than 10 feet tall. The name I'.orchgrevlnk hns been made forever famous by the discovery of the south magnetic pole. Details of the achievement will be awaited with the liveliest Interest. If Professor Sheldon Is correct In his assertion that three-fourths of the min isters are heretical, they may some day make it exceedingly uncomfortable for the remaining fourth. President Harper of Chicago Univer sity sees Mr. Rockefeller's $2.000,01 10, foes him .fll.OOO.OOO better, and takes .he $:.,Ooo,oo0. Evidently President Harper knows all the Intricacies of the game. "Discussions on the war and the twentieth century," reads a notice on the wall of a hotel In Glasgow. Scot land, "will not be allowed until the close of both." So far as tills genera tion Is concerned that seems to be a prohibition until "the day after never." The Chickasaw Indians have passed a law requiring any white man who de sires to many a dusky heiress to pay a license lee of ifl.ooo. There are ninny Caucasian parents who would be glad to protect their daughters from the pursuit of fortune-hunters in the same way There Is one redeeming prospect fol lowing the recent attempt of a crazy youth to puncture the anatomy of his royal highness Albert Edward with a a2-calllier bullet. It may uow become the fad for the "chappies" and Anglo maniacs to hire young and Inexperi enced marksmen to stand off at forty paces or so and discharge murderous looking weapons at them. Ami If a few of the Imitators should accidental ly be hit In a vital spot the public would be immeasurably the gainer. During the year 18!! American rail roads were more active In building thnn In any year since 1S0O. A total of 4,500 miles of new track was laid. In the meantime there was a great de crease In the number of roads going Into receivership. The long, dark era of railroad bankruptcies, which cul minated In 1S!3, when seventy-four companies, with nearly 30,000 miles of lines, were handed over to receivers, lias ended, and the new era starts with the railways of the United States In a solvent and hopeful condition. The receiverships for ISO!) cover ouly 1,010 miles, or a little over one-half of 1 per cent, of the present mileage. The army of young physicians now waiting for a bald spot on their heads and for the practice that Is supposed to come with It will doubtless hear with Interest of Russia's summary plan for preventing a surplus of doc tors. By a recent decree of the litis lan Minister of Education the admis sion of 11 .rear ttudeuta to the uiedl- The announcement of the death ol Dr. Gruby, of Paris, recalls many in teresting features of his long practice among the eminent folk who were his patients. The list includes Heine, George Sand, Marshal MacMahon. the elder Dumas, Daudet, Ambrolse Thom as, Chopin and Liszt. Although It cured many of them of various real or fancied maladies, he seldom adminis tered or prescribed a dose of drugs. Exercise, abstinence and occupation were his therapeutic agents; but know ing that orders to take these siniplt! remedies were seldom obeyed, he re sorted to various little tricks to attain the end. To one patient w ho needed ex ercise, he gave a little sugar and wa ter, with orders to walk from the Bas tille to the CliUiih of the Miuiii:iiK every morning before sunrise, and ai every sixty-eighth step to crack n grape-seed between his teeth. Anothei nervous idler was ordered to move into four rooms on the fifth story of a house with no elevator, to have each room papered a different pattern and shade of green, and to select, himself, tiie rooms and the paper, and to superin tend all the work. By such devices, he lured his pntients Into doing what they otherwise would not have done, and thus was enabled to effect many cures. It was a shrewd use of mental foibles for the cure of physical ills. KENTUCKIANS WHO LIVE AS IN COLONIAL TIMES. Somebody who has access to the quasi-private correspondence of a New York concern, and who is unable to keep a good thing to himself, makes public the following extract from ft letter written to the house by a friend ly firm In an Interior town: Upon our recommendation, Mr. and Mrs. , of our city, will shortly visit your New York house, with it view to milking extensive purchases. If suited, they may prove to he valuable patrons. 15c sure to pay particular attention to the tastes of Mrs. (second wife). Kindly consider this comiiiunieutiou con fidential. It Is hardly necessary to direct at tention to the implication contained in this friendly hint from one business firm to another. The point which the out-of-town concern wished particular ly to emphasize was that no amount of attention bestowed upon Mrs. would be thrown away, for the simple reason that she was Mr. 's second wife. Long and careful study of the relations that exist between a husband and his second wife seems to have con vinced the intelligent mercantile class es that the latter Is very apt to exer cise greater iullueiice over the former than any first wife possibly could. We are left in doubt as to why this should be M. but people who are engaged In vocations which demand the exercise of more than ordinary good Judgment In dealing with humanity in general, and whose aim Is always to please, are not likely to err greatly when they as sume that, while a husband may oc casionally disagree with his first wife, he seldom or never finds It pleasant to differ from his second, particularly on a shopping tour. There is in the letter quoted above a suggestion for that large and worthy element of our popu lation which Is striving constantly to explain the vagaries and Idiosyncra sies of human character. It cannot be, of course, that a husband Is so entire ly chastened or cowed by his llrst wife that he submits gracefully or slavishly to the domination of his second; nor Is 't to be presumed that one who has passed safely through his llrst matri monial venture has beeu so well trained that he Invariably makes a better husband for the second than he did for the first woman of his choice. No amount of theorizing over this mat ter will result In a satisfactory con clusion. It Is probable that in the present Instance there were special reasons why the New York linn should be particularly pleasing to the second wife. The out-of-town concern could not safely enter Into theo reasons. A hint was thought to be sutlleleut. and, without knowing anything to the con trary, we must Imagine that the New York firm acted on and prollted by It. Class of People Who Have Little Am bition and Practically No Enlighten ment Fully 2,000,000 Americana Who Are Absolutely Benighted. The political conditions in Kentucky, culminating In the assassination of Senator Goebel, the Democratic con testant for Gover nor, brought the mountaineers of that common wealth into consid e r a b 1 e notoriety. T liese mountain eers are of a type common to a large and rugged region, extending from the mountain giul. Ohio River to Bir mingham, Ala., and Atlanta, Ga. The extent of the region has been concealed from the fact that it is parceled out among nine different commonwealths, writes William Goodell Frost, Presi dent of Berea College, In the Atlantic Monthly. It has no coastline, no navi gable stream and no Inland lakes. The lack of waterways, or other means of communication, has barred all prog ress. In this region are 2,000,000 people, who are living practically in condi tions of colonial times. The difference Is that the colonial people were con sciously In motion and felt themselves to be In the front of the progress of their time, while the mountain people have a depressing sense of being be hind. Yet the people are not to blame, The conditions affecting them are the result of environment. These people are more destitute of nil the opportunities that go with edu cation than any other people of our race In the world. There may be twen ty counties in one group which do not contain a printing press. The average ward Taris, around which he was the first civilian to ride before its complete environment. He was able to enter Metz before the capitulation; he was the first uoncombatant to enter Paris after the siege; he saw the overthrow of the Commune, was in the midst of the fighting, i.nd was almost torn to pieces by the mob. He saw some fight ing in Spain after the abdication of j King Amadeus. In his capacity of correspondent he accompanied the Prince of Wales on his tour through India in 187.V70. He was witness to the plucky attempt at Servia to throw off the yoke of Tur key. He followed the Russo-Turklsh campaign in the summer and autumn of 1877, and, attached to the Russian army, was present at the battle of TIIE LATE AHCH1HALD FORBES. PrlTAtn Cable Tor the CJuora. The (Juoeii, when at Oslonie, has her own private submarine cable, which Is laid from the Isle of Wight to Hurst Casfle on the mainland, where Charles I. was kept for a few days before his trial and execution. Her majesty uses this cable to communicate with her ministers. What has become of the old-fashioned girl who used to accept Invitations as follows: "Miss Smith's compliments to Mr. Jones, and she would be pleased to accept his kind luvltath'u?" A TYPICAL MOUNTAIN HOME. preacher of the mountains is Inclined to be suspicious of the "book larnin' " which he has failed to acquire. Re ligion Itself Is a melancholy affair chiefly connected with funerals and sectarian squabbles. The fighting propensities of the mountaineers are to be classed with other survivals of old-world temper ami ideals. It Is well to remember that the whole South Is far nearer than the other parts of the country to the age of chivalry, when all gentlemen wore side arms and felt that the govern ment was simply to defend them from foreign foes, while they were to rely upon their own prowess to protect their households and their honor. So far, then, as the backwoodsmen are af fected by the example of those who have enjoyed superior advantages they have been continuously taught to avenge their own wrongs rather than appeal to law. And quite naturally they have shown less restraint anil good taste In such matters. It is to be added that the administration of jus tice In the mouutaln counties Is attend ed with even more delays and. uncer tainties than elsewhere. Add to this the fact that the mountaineer has the Independent spirit born of solitude. constant practice In the use of fire arms, and that the civil wnr. In which the mountains were plundered by both armies, rekindled the belligerent spirit of their ancient blood. It gives us hope for their future that the frequent homicides are not committed wantonly nor for purposes of robbery, but In the spirit of au Homeric chieftain on some "point of honor." FAMOUS WAR WRITER. Archibald Forbe,Who Recently Fanned Away In London. Archibald Forbes, who died recently In London, was one of the most famous war correspondents in the world. He was a Scotchmau by birth and for ten years was a soldier In the British army an experience that was of great ad vantage to him when he became a war correspondent. At the outbreak of the Fratico-Prus slan wnr he attached himself to the German forces and was present at the first fight at Sanrbruck. How curious ly his experiences were nfterward woven In with the subsequent history of the last Imperial Napoleonic fam lly Is shown by the facts that he wit nessed the defeat of the French at Se dan, saw Louis Napoleon surrender, afterward gazed upon his dead face at Culselhurst, nud was with the party which gathered up the remains of Prince Papoloou In Zululand. He was present at the battles of Courcelles, Vionvtlle and Grnvelotte, and advanced with the Germans to- RE-FORMING THE RIVER NILE. Shlpka Tass and under fire dining Skobeloff's magnificent attempt to take Plevna. He went through the Afghan campaign of 1S78, and on one of the expeditions he was mentioned In the general's dispatches for saving a wounded soldier's life under close and heavy fire. From Afghanistan he proceeded to Mandalay, the capital of King Thee baw, and had sonle' Interesting Inter views with that potentate. Thence he was ordered to Zululand, where he ar rived in time to see plenty of fighting and to carry the news of the battle of Ulundl alone at night through the en emy's country for 120 miles to the near est telegraph wire at Durban. Mr. Forbes' labors shattered his health and in 1879 he abandoned the duties of a correspondent. He after ward lectured In Great Britain and America and was the author of many books. In 188(5 he was married to Miss Louisa Meigs, daughter of the late Gen. Meigs, of the United States army. Expert Tobacco Test ins. The greater part, in fact, nearly all, of the tobacco raised In Cuba and not used by the Cuban cigar-makers is shipped to the United States. At certain seasons of the year the Havana hotels are filled with tobacco buyers from the States. Some of them deal through the brokers in Havaun, but some who know the country and the language go out Into the tobacco district and deal di rectly with the planters, often buying a. promising crop before it Is picked. The tobacco buyer has necessarily to be a good judge of tobacco. He goes down into the very center of the bale of tobacco he Is examining, extracts some samples and tests them in differ ent ways. The first test Is that of smell. The Cuban tobacco has a strong nud pe culiar odor. A little variation one way or the other makes the tobacco good or bad. After smelling It the buyer Is likely to roll ft rudely constructed cigar out of the leaf and smoke it. He will inhale the smoke and endeavor to de termine exactly the flavor. He will also examine the ash carefully and test also the combustion of the tobacco that Is, try to And out how long It will hold fire. It Is a great annoyance to a smoker who is talking or writing or otherwise engaged to put his cigar Into his mouth and find that It ha's gone out. No cigar ever tastes so good after It has met such a catastrophe. So one quality sought for Is that of holding lire. If a sample smoked by the buyer will keep lighted four minutes It Is con sidered very good. Some will burn for five minutes and even longer without being puffed. Ohio State Journal. Great Engineering Feat Designed to Equalize Its Flow of Water. One of the most ancient islands, and one rich In historic associations, is threatened with destruction. When the Nile reservoirs planned by the great Willcocks were first made known to the world, and it was found that he, although offering six or seven sites for his cyclopean designs, really ouly high ly recommended one, the construction of which would wipe out the Island of Philae, the loveliest spot on the Nile, there was a universal howl of opposi tion. This got to such a height that Sir W. Garstiu and his engineers may have felt a grim kind of relief when they found that the French would al low them no money from the Caisse to realize their scheme for storing the blessed water, and they had for a time to abandon the whole affair. So when, one fine morning, John AIrd, Sir Benja min linker and their friends unexpect edly called at the office of works in Cairo and offered to make any amount of dams, canals and locks wherever they pleased, for no present cash pay ment, in accepting their wonderful offer the government cut down the lev el of the great reservoir by nearly one half. Willocks wanted to store up 120 feet of water. Sir Benjamin Baker was told to content himself with twen ty meters (about sixty-five feet) of Nile storage.' And so the artists and the tourist and the general opponents to the drowning of Philae were appeased, or at least silenced, and the greatest engi neering work that the world lias ever seen was quickly started and within a year 20,000 men were employed at -Assouan nud at the supplemental dam at Asslout When the dam Is completed and at Its high level Philae will have its temple pylons and a few of the higher ruins standing out of the water just to mark where its ancient beauties were, but all Its loveliness, its verdure, its palms, several of its temples, Its storied walls nnd Its Nilonieter, its colonnades, its Roman quays, will disappear beneath the waters. An Island will be lost, hut a continent Will be saved. The Hero of Mafekins;. Of the hero of Mafeking's school days Dr. Halg Brown, the former head , master of Charterhouse; has been tell j Ing a correspondent: "I notice that the name is Invariably mispronounced," jaid the doctor. "The 'a' In Bauen lsV,; generally given the sound 'ah,' but It should have the usual sound of 'a' as In 'bathing towel,' which was his nickname among the boys at school. The boy was essentially the father of the man; he was very active, lively, full of fun and amusement, and ex ceedingly popular with his schoolfel lows. An extremely clever boy In ev ery sort of way, his accomplishments were numerous. He was fond of ath letics of all kinds, and in all he under took showed faculty of resource, cou pled with a keen sense of humor." Col. Baden-Powell, two days before he left England for South Africa, paid a visit to Dr. Halg Brown, and characteris tically remarked: "I hope they will give me a warm corner." He was given his wish. Dm t)i by Anarchists. The Gerninn Emperor Is probably the only European monarch who carries a revolver. Firmly convinced that he Is going to die by the bullet of nn anarch ist this fate having been prophesied1 to Id in long ago he Is determined to fight for his life If necessary, and ac cordingly Is never without his revolver. He is extremely skillful in the use of the weapon, and his jaeger, or body servant, who accompanies htm every where, Inspects It every morning to make sure that It Is In perfect order. Napoleon anil the Pres. "When I returned from Elba," Na poleon is quoted ns saying, in the Cen tury, "I found, among other papers of the Bourbons, nn account of 0,000 francs paid monthly to the editors of the Times, besides taking a hundred numbers monthly, and I had au offer from them to write for me for pay ment. I had offers from the editors of several English newspapers to write for me, even during the time of war, previous to my going to Elba, and to Insert news and everything else I wished, and that money would be taken to send them to France. I did not do It. I was wrong, however; I ought to have accepted their offers, and then my name would not have been held In such odium In England ns It was. This they said themselves to me. For In the end these newspapers formed the public opinion, and always will do. I waa very wrong; I see It now." Why She Refrains. "It Is true. My wife never scolds, never scowls, never frowns." "Do you expect us to believe such, nonsense ?" "I do. Why not? I can explain.'' "Ihen explain." "She doesn't scold because It twists her mouth; she doesn't scowl becnuse It , gives her crowsfeet, and she doesn't Trown because It brings wrinkles." "Good. But Inwardly?" "Don't ask me. The question Is too harrowing." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Whrre Tommy Heat Mm. Mrs. Tltuller Why, Johnny, what Is the matter with you? You've been fighting. And I told you to count 10 when you were angry. Johnny I did, but Tommy Tinker played roots on me. He didn't count his 10 until after he'd plunked me In the eye. Women are not of a warlike nature, yet they frequently storm piano forte, No Foremaa Printer in Stripes. The prisoner printers on the Star of Hope, published In Slug Sing prison, objected so strongly to having a pris oner for foreman of the office that he has been removed and another man not a prisoner put In his place. Self-reliance nienns learning enrly that If you are In trouble, no one Is go-' Ing to get up In the night to help yon ut Time, patience and Industry conquer III things.