Lincoln County leader., September 28, 1900, Image 2

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LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
CFIAS. F. & AIU E. SOITLE. Cuba
TOLEDO OREGON
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(Scientists tell us that tors arc slowly
flisappearing.
It does not pay any man to hold a
political office, except as the ollice may
come to hi in fairly and upon Lis merits.
When girls put on bathing suits ami
then merely promenade the beach, it
might be said the dress ceremony was
Just a matter of form. '
"Bemembcr the Maine" and "Uemem
ber Majulm" are history. "Keme'mhcr
Pekin" threatens, alas! to be a more
Volumiuousiy vengeful cry. v
David Starr Jordan Is right In saying
that college-bred women are desirable
us wives. Sometimes their learning eu
ables them to support the family.
The deadliest blow that lias struck'nt
the cigarette is the declaration of the
Hock Island system that It will employ
no man addicted to the habit. Other
railroads will probably follow.
Kecently a Texas young woman with
carried a (purler of a mile In the arms
cf a cychiiii , bui U i Miiii i im t slie had
not gone half the distance before the
dampness told her that It was uot her
hilarious Texas lover bent on an elope
ment. Of course the girl who walked 5.000
miles on a wager wns "pretty." They
Bl ways are. If she had traveled a mile
by turning handsprings or had crossed
the continent In a box car It would
have been the same, with the possible
Addition that she would have been de--pcribed
as "reliued and highly edu
cated." also. That's one way to nc
yuiie beauty "newspaper beauty."
The adornment of the Interior of
school-houses Is no less Important than
the Improvement of the grounds, in
favor of which a sentiment so vigorous
mid so wide-spread happily exists. Less
general, but steadily growing. Is the
demand for beautiful schoolrooms.
Much Is already accomplished. Local
Associations, town Improvement socle
ties, patriotic orders, historical socle
ties have willingly co-operated with pri
vate benevolence. There have been he
ipiests and memorial presentations; and
n few schools have funds sutlicient to
render every class-room, hall, corridor,
Htairway, even cloak-room, delightful
to the eye and instructive to the mind.
1'Vw schools can hope for such equip
ment' at least, all at once. There must
be small beginnings and gradual
growth. In many schools a suitable
and charming custom has arisen of late
years, by which each departing class
lis li graduates leaves behind It a inem
t;rb.l cast or picture. This may littlng
ly possess lllustralhc connection with
mime course of study, or it may be one
among the masterpieces which repre
sent the highest reach of art In pure
beauty, educative only, although pow
erfully, through Innaie grandeur or
loveliness. The essential Is that It
uliouhl be truly tine the work, not nee.
essarlly of an old master, but of a mas
ter. Fortunately, boys ami girls are
fls quirk to learil how to give as to give,
Mud the mistakes of class committees
are few. So promising indeed is the
progress of this movement among our
generous young students that there Is a
gooil prosper! Unit a few yeajs heme
the month of graduations will bring
lis great embellishment to schoolrooms
as Arbor day will bring to the sur
roundings of the buildings.
Certain fundamental diffcrcm-cs of
character seem to exist between men
ami women, and "the lord of creation"
-as he sometimes calls himself -Is apt
to ascribe them to the brain. This the
ory, he feels, carries with It the privi
lege of monopolizing the morning pa
per, and of answering with an air of
authority questions of which he knows
tpilte as little as his wife. An English
scientist. Alexander Sutherland, has
Kindled this problem in Its physiolog
ical aspects, and his conclusions are In
teresting to men and women alike.
From a comparison of trustworthy sta
tistics, It appears that the brain of tie
average man is about one truth larger
tlui n that of the average woman: but on
the other hand, if the ratio between the
size of brain ami body be taken Into
consideration, mini's brain comes out
second best. Happily, however, male
llilrhlgrilec has a loophole of escape
from (lie natural Inference from this
fad. The smaller animal always has
the larger proportional brain. A cat
has more brain In proportion to its size
than an elephant, and a baby's brain Is
live times the relative size of lis fa
ther's. Woman has. however, other
lines of defense. All mental activity
finds Us origin In the thin outer layer
or cortex of the brain. On every square
inch there are some ten millions of min
ute cells, the Instruments of mental en
ergy. .Might uot a more just compan
ion be based ou a consecration of these
cells? Perhaps, but uo observer has
yet showu that sex makes any differ
ence lu the number, develunmeut or vi
tal euci-fe-y oi thes tiraln element.
When all is said, If the average man
prefers to regard size as the correct In
dex of Intelligence, he must admit that
40 per cent, of the women he meets are
of larger Intellect than he. This will
give him food for reflection, and per
haps, after a little, he will agree with
Prof. Sutherland that every year seems
to show with increasing conclusiveness
that "there is in the great mass of cases
a. practical equality in male and female
minds."
Seldom has the world seen a more
eventful period than that in which we
now live. The creation of the empire
of Germany, the kingdom of Italy and
the republic of France is easily remem
bered by, persons of early middle age.
Irhin the past fifteen years Africa has
been parceled out among the principal
European countries. As a result of
the war in the Orange Free State and
the Transvaal, practically the whole of
South Africa will become British' terri
tory. The war lu China may result in
the long-threatened division of that
vast empire among hah" a dozen of the
nations of Europe, and the disappear
ance of the Chinese flag from the
world's seas. , At the beginning of 1S0S
Spain still held u fragment of that do
main on which, in the days of Charles
V. and I'hilip II., the sun never set., By
the end of that year Spain's flag had
vanished from the New World which
her nn visitors discovered, ar.d on
which she had a foothold for a century
before any of her rivals, England,
France, or Holland, started permanent
settlements on this side of the Atlan
tic. She lost, too, the magnificent
group of islands given to her by Ma
gellan, and named for the great I'hilip.
Virtually the Spain of ItHH) has shrunk
to the dimensions of the Spain of the
earlier days of Ferdinand and Isabella,
before Columbus started on his voyage
of discovery. But the most striking
event of an age of startliug happenings
may lie Impending In Asia. The oldest
of the great nations now In the alliance
of powers were creations of yesterday
compared with the country with which
they are coming in conflict. If Chinese
chronology is reliable, China was the
home of a civilization centuries old be
fore Komulus got his first glimpse of
the Tiber, or Paris of Troy abducted
Helen. 'Many years of China's first
cycle had expired anterior to the days
of Barneses II. and before the birth or
the Pharaoh of the Exodus. The world's
oldest and newest are in conflict in fhe
oiliest of the world's continents. Per
haps this age Is now witnessing the
closing scenes of a dranm which open
ed in the world's early morning twi
light. Patents ou inventions are sometimes
objected to as tending to create monop
olies, but there can .be little doubt that
the American patent system has had a
remarkable influence in stimulating the
Inventive faculty of the people and in
giving the nation Its present suprem
acy in the Industrial world. A writer
in Cassler's Magazine brings together
some Interesting statistics on this sub
ject. He shows that our Inventions ami
our manufactures have increased on
parallel lines, and that labor and cap
ital have alike shared In the vast
wealth produced by Improved ma
chinery. In the third decade of the
present century American manufac
tured products amounted to only $80,
000.000 a year, and In lSIHt less than
10.01 io patents hail been issued. In
1S.",0 the manufactures had Increased to
tfl.Ol.'.OOO.OOO, and from ISM to lSoO
l...'l.'l.' patents were issued. .In every
decade since then American manufac
tures have nearly doubled, until lu
IS! Ml they represented about ifO.lMO.OOO,
000, wlille the total number of patents
Issued since lS:ti! had Increased to 418,
00.". The nation Is now able to export
a large proportion of Its manufactures,
thus annually Increasing the total
wealth of the people by many millions
of dollars. During 1S!)) the exports of
manufactures amounted to $:1S0,S7,
S!M. while In the tlscal year of l!X0. the
total of manufactured exports exceeds
$100,000,000. which Is one-lifth of the
grand total of all our exports and Im
ports combined. It Is not strange that
Europe Is becoming alarmed over the
American Invasion of Its markets. The
full significance of the Improvement in
machinery for the individual American
Is seen in the fact that between 1S;tii
and IWHi the hours of labor were re
duced "Jo per cent., the product. Mr
hand had Increased 40 per cent., and
the wages had Increased 4S per cent.,
Vr. if measured by the purchasing
power of the dollar. OS per cent. What
Is It that enables t lie operative, lu three
fourths of the time, to produce one and
n half times as much as the workman
of forty years ago? Simply the use of
new Inventions cuiiMidicd In improved
tools and machines. Ten years ago our
Imports of manufactures were double
the exporjs: now the exports are double
the Imports. All that the nation needs
to continue Its career of Increasing
wealth Is the possession of foreign mar
kets for Its surplus manufactures.
Knrly Free Nchixitn In Canada.
Long before school boards were es
tablished In England Canadian chil
dren were Instructed free of cost be
tween the ages of 7 and t'2. This edu
cation Is compulsory.
WILLIAM W. ASTOK.
LEFT AMERICA TO GAIN FAME
IN ENGLAND.
Kow He Finds Himself a Millionaire
Without a Country Tabooed by the
Prince of Wales' Set for Insulting
Sir Archibald Milne.
The story of William Waldorf Astor,
who grossly offended English society a
short time ago by insulting Sir Archi
bald Milne, a particular friend of the
Prince of Wales, and who has been os
tracised by the smart set, which basks
In the Prince's favor, is that of a man
without a country. He began life with
unlimited wealth and boundless ambi
tion. He still has both, for the latter
has never been satislied.
About twenty years ago a group of
young men among the rich New York
ers were starting out In Ufa, all with
some political ambition and all backed
up by an old family and a big rent loll.
None of them promised so much and
failed so dismally as William. Waldorf
Astor. He Intended to be President of
the United States. He is now a man
without a country, disappointed, cyni
cal, with no future before him at 50. lie
was the son of John Jacob Astor 111.,
the head of the great family who came
from tho 'little village cf Waldorf, Gc-i-
; many, about 120 years ago, and started
In life as butchers and fur traders.
; "When William Waldorf came Into the
I world the Astors owned 9 per cent, of
the real estate In New York City, and
had taken social precedence over the
old Knickerbocker families, who once
held themselves aloof from a man who
peddled furs on his back. Astor was
educated at the law school of Columbia
University. He Imagined himself . a
second Disraeli and began simultane
ously a career In politics and in liter
ature. He was elected State Senator.
He ran for Congress to succeed Levi P.
i Morton and was defeated by the late
Roswell Flower. He was appointed
minister. to Italy by President Arthur,
lie distinguished himself there by scat-
1 terlng golden scudl with a lavish hand.
Incidentally he got along with his min
isterial duties without discredit to the
government. Nothing came up to de-
mand diplomacy, and Mr. Astor was
equal to the situation. He returned
home and threw himself Into politics in
New York State. Perhaps It would be
. more correct to say that he threw him
self at politics. He worked very hard.
and he was very much In "earnest, but
his efforts came to nothing. He gave
his money freely and he gave his time
without stint. But he failed to connect
with the people, and that Is an essential
element to success in American politics,
as Mr. Astor found out. He wrote a
novel called "Valentino," and followed
It with another Italian romance called
"Sforza." lu the Judgment of critics
they had considerable literary merit.
There was a lack of the two great
things, power and Imagination. There
were polish aud scholarly ability to a
good degree. But here again Mr. Astor
failed to connect with the people.
Why Astor Left America.
To crown his political and literary
disappointments a dispute arose as to
whether Mrs. William Waldorf Astor
or Mrs. Johu Jacob Astor was entitled
to be CHlled "Mrs. Astor." In short,
was John Jacob Astor or William Wal
dorf Astor the head of the family? So
ciety settled the quest Ion In favor of
the popular John Jacob, and William
Waldorf. In pique, built next door to
his cousin the big aud fashionable ho
tel, the Waldorf-Astor House. Then he
gathered up his household goods and
moved to London. He disposed of as
much of his property lu America as he
could and Invested his money In Eng
lang.' He rented his residence and de
clared publicly and often that America
was not his country. He became a nat
uralized Eugllshiunn and for a couple
of years was apparently an Intimate
frleud of the Trluce of Wales. It was
rumored that he was to be given a
peerage and marry a daughter of the
Trlnce, for he Is now a widower. Then
gossip connected his name with that of
Lady Randolph Churchill, and receutly
with that of Mrs. Ogden Goelet, of
New York.
All the time Mr. Astor has attempted
WILLIAM WA1.DOHP ASTOR.
to swure a Ann footing In Eng!rt so
ciety. He bought the Pall Mall Urzette
and Pall Mall Budget, and started the
Pall Mall Magazine, all ultra-Tory, and
catering to the smart set. He 'bought
from the Duke of Westminster, the
richest man In England, the handsom
est seat on the Thames Cliveden. Then
Mr. Astor built a high wall around the
park, stationed guards, and warned the
public to keep off of his grounds. Such
a thing is not usual with English coun
try gentlemen and everybody bristled
with Indignation at the American snob,
as they called him. Gradually Mr.
Astor has become the "bete nolr"' of
pretty nearly all classes of Englishmen.
He is 10,000 miles from a peerage, and
probably now fully as far from n royal
drawing-room. His conspicuous use
to-day is as a warning to Americans
who will not keep in touch with their
countrymen. '
FOCUSED ALL ATTENTION.
Woman's Telegram Diverted Audience
from the Performance.
When a woman receives 'a telegram
nt her home It causes her heart to palpi
tate at a greatly accelerated rate and she
hesitates long before opening the en
velope. What must be the effect upon
her when the missive comes to her,
with every appearance of urgency,
when she Is seated In a theater? A
young woman on a visit to Wilkesbarre
r., recently underwent the .experience
while the entire audience, gathered to
GETS A TELEGRAM.
witness a performance by a distin
guished actor, watched the effect the
missive had upon her.
The orchestra had Just begun to play
after the curtain had dropped upon the
second act when the manager of the
theater appeared before the curtain
and motioned the lea;ler to silence. His
face was very grave aud he held a tele
gram in his hand.
"Is Miss Vermont, of Washington, In
the house?" he asked. "A telegram has
been brought to the theater addressed
to her."
Miss Vermont turned suddenly cold
with terror. Mother had had a stroke
or father's automobile had run away
with him. or brother Jack had been
capsized on the river and drowned. She
sawj every detail of her fearful home"
Journey the sleepless night of waiting
for the first train, the Interminable
crawling of It Washlu'gtouward. She
saw herself In the deepest mourning, lu
a half second she lived a week of mis
ery. Her two cousins were gazing at
her in frightened helplessness. She
staggered to her feet.
"I am Miss Vermont," she said, with
an effort.
An usher ran down the aisle. Every
eye in the theater was on her. Every
womau there felt for her. For a mo
ment she could uot nerve herself to
open the envelope. She must. She
must know which one It was. The
message was a blur before her. It was
signed Jack. She caught the words,
"Wire at once." It was mother, then,
or -father. She looked closer. This
time she made out the whole message.
It read: ' '
"Mother left out pink organdie. Do
you need it? Wire at once."
Specimens of Irish Hulls.
"Some fifteen years ago," says a cor
respondent of the London Spectator, "I
heard a dignitary of Cork Cathedral
address the congregation In St. Mary's
Church. Harrogate. In this wise: 'If
there le any of you here, dear breth
ren, whom God lu his mercy has taken
to himself ' In the same discourse,
pleading for some charity, our sense of
generosity was sought to be stirred by
the following sentence descriptive of
the miseries of which Ireland wns then
the victim: 'In the sister rnuntrr
where for some time we have been suf
fering from vivisection. Is It to lie won
derer at If we have lieen n llttln .ita.
turbed while undergoing the process?'
Might I suggest that the following ha
added to your remarkable collection
of 'bulls'? A person who evidently dis-
likes the name of William, and who Is
not an Irishman, but. In my mind, wor
thy to be one, said: .s long as I nm
nllve I shall never give the nam of
William to one of my sons. "
What has become of the old-fastiinn.
od boy who was sent out by his mother
to cut the switch with which nh. in.
tended to whip him? And what has
become of the old-fashloued mother
who always kept a switch over the firs-
piace, reauy lor an emergency!
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COULD NOT HEAR "NO."
finely Deafness of an Applicant for
.a Govcrment Job.
Congressman John H. Ketchaui. of
Dover Plains, N. Y., Is more or less
bard of hearing, writes Cyrus Patter
sou Jones in Success. He holds his
hand up to his ear while you are ad
dressing him and manages to catch
your meaning fairly well. Just how
much he hears is open to question, and
Secretary Uage, of the treasury, for
one, has his own suspicions that "Uncle
John" is not quite so deaf as lie ap
pears. It happened this way:
Mr. Ketchaui had been in Congress
so loug that he had used up all the
patronage to which he was entitled,
i mid could not get any more places for
I his constituents. But' oue day this
spring he called ou Mr. Gage.
"There is a man up lu my town," he
explained, "who must be fixed, aud I
want you to fix him."
"I can't do it," replied Gage land up
went Ketcham's hand .to his ear), "be
cause there are no vacancies iu my de
partment." . ..
"Yes, that's What he wants," said
Ketcham, "a place in your ' depart
ment." The Secretary looked at his visitor
intently, aud said in a louder tone:
"The clv.il service rules cover all ap
pointments under twelve hundred or fif
teen hundred dollars n yenr."
Mr. Ketcham removed his hand from
his right ear and replied:
"That will be satisfactory: He will
not expect more than twelve hundred
dollars a year."
Mr. Gage was growing desperate.
"I tell you," he fairly yelled. "I can't
do anything for your man. There is no
use bringing him down here!"
"All right!" said the Imperturbable
Congressman, rising. "I'll bring him
down," and out. lie walked leaving th
Secretary in a state of collapse.
Sure enough, a day or two later, the
deaf man walked' In with a constituent.
"Here is mjvfrieiid that you prom
ised to place," he said.
"Good Lord!" said Gage (and up went
the other's hand), "didn't I tell you I
could do nothing, absolutely nothiugV"
"Hey?" . .
"Didn't I tell you not to bring your
man ljere, because I had no place foi
him?"
"Xo; you said you would give him a
place at about twelve hundred dollars s
year; so I sent for him and here he is.'
The Secretary was in despair. He
loked the Congressman In the face li
was a blank. In sheer desperation h
tapped a bell for an assistant, told the
latter to take the constituent to Mr.
B , and if possible to find him a
place. The Congressman shook hands
all around aud departed with an ex
pression of benevolence on his coun
tenance. The man got a fairly good place! The
Congressman Is still rather deaf. Thr
Secretary well, he has his own sus
picions. Man's Expectation of Kile.
An Ingenious mathematician main
tains that the number of years which
anyone is likely to live may really be
ascertained by applying the following
rule: Subtract from the number SO the
age already attained by the person and
divide the remainder by 'J. For exam
ple, suppose that we wish to find out
how long a person who Is now fifty
years old Is likely to live. 8i-."i0 :50;
M-:-2 18, and 18 years Is the answer
to the question. The same statistician1
also assures us that out of every
persons who are 00 years old only 5! Ml
will live to be 70, 1UO to SO, seventeen
to be !K, and it is doubtful If even four
will attain to the dignity of centena
rians, A critic points out that these figures
may seem very convincing, but they
they cannot be accurate In nil cases.
It may be easy, he explains, to show
how loug a man of .10 Is likely to live,
but the rule applied In his case cannot
be applied In the case of a man who is
.aver SO, and hence It cannot be accept
edf as' Infallible. Cincinnati Enquirer.
v Ulectrlc Power in the Navy.
The-Vautious experiment of electric
ally driven turret turning machinery ou
the Brooklyn, of chain ammunition
hoists on the Puritan, the system of
blowers and exhausters on the Wil
mington, have all been grouped on the -Kearsarge
and Kentucky. These two
battleships have more of their auxil
iary machinery driven by electric now-
i er than any other warships afloat.
These battleships represent the inter
mediate stage between steam and elei
trieally driven auxiliary machinery,
and show results lu economy In coal.
Prosperous Mexico.
Mexico In the past nine years h.m
doubled Its revenues, doubled Its ex
ports, doubled the number of Its fac
tories and multiplied by three its bank
ing capital and the continuance of
this great prosperity Is now quite as
pronounced as ever during the decade.
Lemon Juice for Hoarseness.
A 6luger In grand opera contradicts
the statement frequently made that
lemon Juice Is excellent to relieve a
slight hoarseness. It may clear the
voice at first, but only for a short time,,
and the strong ncld Is extremely lit
Jurlouu to the vocal chords.
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