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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1900)
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER CHAB. F. & Al K. SOCLE, Tubs TOLEDO OREGON t ' The newest thing In shirt waists the man who wears them. . , Auot her reason for the campaign liar never hitting the mark Is his always shooting with the Ions bow. A professional water walker got his feet wet, caught cold, ami died from the effect. There Is no telling what a profession may do to a person. American women don revolvers and American men take lo shirt waists. Heal life affords cases of "Vice Verm" as amazing as the imagination of Ans tey ever created. The maharajah of Bharaptur became Intoxicated and lost his Job. It was considered absolutely necessary for a man, who had to pilot that title through the streets to remain strictly solier. China has borrowed from the "for eign devils" In recent years fcHJO.ooo, 000, and. the larger part of the money lias been expended to pay for modern uruis. China evidently believes In lighting the devils with their own UI'UIK. ' A professor of geology has found near MouUiair, X. .1., fossil specimens of a llsh supposed to be millions of years old. The tlsh belongs to the or der of ganoids, of which there are only n few modern representatlv.es. House keepers who think their tishman Is not furnishing wares as fresh as they de sire can at least comfort themselves i with the knowledge that his ice-box contains nothing as old as this. "When the rats die, you may know the plague has come," Is a common say ing In the Fast. Honolulu puts it dif ferently. "When the plague lias come the rats must die," is the Western ver sion. The physicians became convinced that rats were responsible for the dis Hcmliiatloii of. bubonic plague In llouo ' lulu, and offered a bounty of cents a head. Wit li In two weeks more than five thousand were killed. The result ecnis to have justified the outlay, for It Is said that since the rats were de stroyed not a single ease of plague lias appeared. "One of the things that strikes one most forcibly in this country," said an l'lnglish observer, who has been spend ing some weeks In the I'lilted States, "Ik the way In which your young men not only support themselves but push on into positions of trust. Our English Ikvs certainly seem to be better edu-rated,-hut the American boys beat 'em hollow In self-reliance and Jiorse sense, us 1 believe you call It here. Perhaps it Is owing to the different way in which I lie American young man looks fit tilings. The Kuglish boy, starting out in life, 'obtains a berth' which Is something to sleep In or lie Minds a sit uation.' The American hoy either 'gets a Job' or 'goes to work' for somebody. There is a whole revelation of mental attitude In those different phrases." The editor of an anarchistic newspa per published In this country hailed the murder of King Humbert with an edi torial paean of Joy. lie frankly con ceded that Humbert was kind and esti mable, personally, and that he had not been guilty of oppressing his people; jet this mail rejoiced In ids dcalh mere ly because he was a king. W hat sort if man It Is who preaches such doc trineswhat sort of men anarchy breeds -Is well brought out by the com ments of a Chicago paper on this odl or: "He Is not u worker, but u 'dead beat.' He spends most of his time con suming beer and giving utterance to the desire that people may be killed. He Is not oven a brave niau. When lie was last wanted by the police he had to be dragged out from under the bed where he had hidden." Tills is a Just arraignment, not merely of an anarch ist, but of anarchy. A Washington police Justice recently dismissed a charge of profanity lodged against a man who swore at a street car conductor. The learned Judge held that, although there was au ordlnnuce against profanity, In this ease the prov ocation was great and therefore the of fense was excusable. Nevertheless, profanity Is never excusable. It may not be unlawful. In the view of many worthy peop.e It may not be immoral. Hut that It Is inexcusable on the ground of good manners, good taste and a proper sense of self-respect cannot be questioned. The spontaneous vocabu lary of a niau Is a retlectlou of his real self. By his speech ye shall know hltn. The old saying, "In vino Veritas," Is terribly true. When a gentleman takes too much wine he still speaks like a gentleman. When a cad Is In his cups he will talk like a cad, though In his sober moments, when he Is on guard, he Is a model of correct discourse and a Chesterllehl In manner. Likewise when a man is In a passion, when he forgets himself In the heat of anger, lil nvvecli will betray his vulgarity If he Is vulgar, or proclaim his purity If' he is pure-minded, l'asslou Is the great revealer. There is a spirit iu language which makes its way iuto the character. The habitual employment of the purest vocabulary will gradually ri'line the coarsest, vulgarest clwracter. Habit is all powerful. The coarse man beginning the practice of propriety in his speech will at first seem to be what he Is not, but if lie perseveres he will come lo be what he desires to seem. Then, when passion consumes him he will be in no danger of lowering him self In his own eyes or in the estima tion of others. He will still be u man. There is a skeleton in every closet, but some skeletons are more obstreper ous than others. Take one of the poets in a current magazine, for example. Inwardly lie Is consumed with a rag ing lire. "Oh, take me," he exclaims, "Into the still places of your heart, and hide me under the night of your deep hair; for the fear of love Is upon me; I'm afraid lest iod should discover the wouderfulness of our love." It is clear that when alone with himself, and wrapt up In his 'great sorrow, he is in clined to make light of everything save his own troubles, lie does not consider that it would be physically impossible for her, even if she were so inclined, to take him into the still places of her heart and at the same time hfde lilin under the night of her deep hair, lie Is asking too much. Hut he will not de sist. "Oh, touch nio!" cries this an guished soul. "Oh, look upon me! Look upon my spirit wuli your eyes." What nonsense: How could she? "Ami touch me," lie Insists, as ir nothing but a touch will ease him, "with the bene diction of your hands." A rolling pin would be more effective, but hear hlni out: "Breathe upon me. hrcathc'npon me, and my soul shall live. Kiss me with your mouth upon my mouth and I shall be strong." We doubt it. The young gentleman's nerves are evidently badly shattered, ami nothing but quiet and a regular and long course of tonics will tend to restore his strength. The poet may not have gone too far. If he has not and can calm himself long enough to write to Klla Wheeler Wil cox perhaps she will give him some good advice. Meantime lie might try the effect of a' shower bath or employ Mr. Muhloon to harden his liber. Is the face of a beautiful ' woman public property, to be used In yellow pictures on cigar boxes and Hour bar rels, "or can its owner claim the "right of privacy" and protect that light In the courts? This was the question at Issue In a suit for .fl.'.ooo damages brought by a beautiful young girl of Kochester against the Franklin Mills Company and the Kochester Kidding I'.ox Company for the use of her por trait, unknown to herself, as an adver tisement for Hour. The chief conten tion of the fair plaintiff was that her "right of privacy" had been invaded, causing her mental Injury ami distress. It is gratifying to note that Justice Davy, of the Supreme Court, sided with the plaintiff. His ruling, in which he overruled the demurrer to the com plaint, embodies so much sound reason ing that it Is safe to regard ,lt as au Indication of what may be. expected from the courts when cases of this kind are brought in the future. lit the course of his derision the .ludge said: "It does not appear from the complaint in this action that the plaintiff is within the category of what might be denominated a public character. She is undoubtedly a young woman of rare beauty, and this she enjoys as a private citizen. It is very natural, if the plain tiff Is of a modest and retiring nature, that any such publicity would be ex tremely disagreeable and offensive to her. ft Is not Impossible, therefore, that she has suffered and continues to suffer great mental injury and dis tress." The Judge further declares that If the lithographic likeness, owing to Its beauty, Is of great value as a trade mark or advertising medium. It Is a "property right" which belongs to the complainant and cannot be taken from her without her consent. The conten tion of the young woman of Rochester raised a point which, it Is claimed, has never been passed upon in the courts of this country. Naval Cadets. The number of naval cadets Is limit ed according to the following rule F.ach member of "the House of Repre sentatives Is entitled to name one can didate to represent his district until lie graduates, resigns or Is discharged. In addition the President Ifct the prlvilcgi of appointing one ami ten annually at large. Two examinations for admis sion are held each year, one In May and the other In September. The require incuts of each candidate are: He must be between 1 and 1!) years of age; In must be physically sound and able to pass a creditable examination In Ku glish grammar, 1'nltod Stales history, geography, arithmetic and algebra as far as the theory of quadratic equa tions and their practice. The pay of a naval cadet Is $,"i00 a year, begiuulug with the date of admission. The musicians of loiulon. It Is said that in London there are no fewer thnu 10,000 professional mu sicians of various grades, and tha more thau half of them are women. "I'm accumulating too many books." "Is that so? Well, quit writing your name in them, and you'll lose them fast enough." Indianapolis Journal. "They say Miss Singleton is a traus mlgrationist." "Yes! she thinks she must once have been the wicked flea whom no man pursueth!" Life. Fair Painter I hope you don't mind my sketching In your field? Farmer Lord, no, niissle! You keep the birds off the peas better'n a' ordinary scare crow. Tit-Bits." "(Snifter must have turned over a new leaf. lie tells me he's working night and day." "Yes, that's the firm he's with now." "What?" "Knight & Day." Philadelphia Press. Hoax I understand the doctor said yesterday that there was very little hope Iu your rich uncle's case. Joax It's even worse to-day. He's very much better Philadelphia Record. Shocking: "They say the young man Melissa Perkins is goiu' to marry is a reg'lar paragon." "Land sakes.' Do tell! I thought he w as a clerk iu a grocery."-Chicago Times-Herald. "What do you suppose makes your baby sister cry so?" asked a visitor of small Johnny. "1 guess it must be 'cause she is hatchln' her teeth," re plied the youthful observer. Chicago Xews. "What makes you think he is a man of little tact?" "He joined a Don't Worry Club the second day after he was married, and didn't know enough to keep it a secret." Chicago Times Herald. School Teacher What little boy' can tell me where is the home of the swal low? .Bobby I kin, please. School Teacher Well. Bobby? Hobby Te home of the swallow is the stumnilck. -Tit-Bits. Doctor What you need Is change and rest. Patient I can't afford It. My Income's pretty well requisitioned already. My children get all the change, and my wife gets the rest. Philadel phia Press. (Seorgy (on the warpath) Say, Eddy, did Harry hit you? L'ddy No. Georgy Did Jimmy hit you? -Eddy Nope. (Seorgy Well. If nobody hasn't hit you 1 will. I've got to lick some, one. Chi cago Xews. All that He, Asked: Miss Lulu Flan nigan I will give yez my answer In a mouth, Pat. Hi1 That's right, me dar lint; tek plinty av time to think it over. Hut tell me wail thing now will It be yes or uo?" Judge. Old Lady (pointing to elevated rail road! Where do them cars go to? City Man (hurriedly) Almost anywhere you want, ma'am. Old Lady Laud sakes! I thought they had to stay on the rails. New Y'ork Weekly. Fuddy They have a deal to say about the "brotherhood of man," and yet wars and rumors of wars continue. Duddy That's all light. There always has been more or less lighting in fam ilies. Boston Transcript. Tess So she's to marry the son of the wealthy Mr. Millyuns. How on earth did she manage to land iiiin, I wonder? Jess She's musical, you know, and so It's no trouble at all for her to catch an heir. Philadelphia Press. Proud Parent If you call in the even ing you probably will hear my daugh ter singing. Artless Friend Oil, I slia'n't mind that. You ought to hear the fellow down our way practicing on the cornet. It Is simply awful. Boston Transcript. "My boy," said the first proud papa, "has a bad habit of interrupting ine when I'm talking. Your boy Isn't old enough for that yet." "Xo," replied the other, "my boy contents himself with interrupting uie when I'm sleep ing." Philadelphia Press. "We got up another crowd and ran away from those people wo camped out with last year." "Did they dis cover It?" "Huh! When we arrived at the ground we found they had made up another crowd and had run away from us." Indianapolis Journal. Ratios of Travel: "Mike," said nod ding Pete, "do you believe In dls six- jtcen to one?" "Sometimes I do," an swered Meandering Mike, "an some times I don't, it depends on whether j it's sixteen meals to one mile or six teen miles to one meal." Washington. Star. Mrs. Moveabout Yes, I like that house you sent nie to see. It will be much cooler for the summer, but the dining-room Is only half as large as this one. Mr. Moveabout So much the bet ter. It will only Ih possible for half as many files to get'lnto It. Philadelphia Press. "After all your talk about sensational Journalism!" exclaimed the fly on tho edge of the sugar bowl, "I'm surprised at you'." "What about?" gasped the captured tly, vainly endeavoring to ex tricate himself from tiie sticky trap. "Well, I notice that paper you're stnek on now Is decidedly yellow." Philadel phia Tress. POOR PLACE Thespian Methinks we hnd hotter This paper snys eggs are selling there on the vines. Chicago Inter Ocean. TQLD OVER A WAR TROPHY. Pub'.ic Interest Shown in Spanish Gnu at Lincoln Park, Chicago. The Spanish trophy gun, the .Maria Teresa, in Lincoln Park, Chicago, con tinues to be au attraction to citizens md strangers. The gun itself is merely in ord!.nry modern on&'.ut t war, such as are employed In warship arma ment, but the association of the Maria Teresa with the naval battle off Santi ago In July, 1S08,, and its mute story Df the prowess and skill of the Amer ican navy gives the gun a sort of pres tige which it otherwise would not have. And not only that, but it tells for itself and for Spain that Spanish ordnance is far from being mediaeval in pattern, strength or projectile-throwing power. In fact, this particular gun and its 'mounting and equipment compares fa vorably with the latest improved heavy artillery of the nations. ! But it is not so much the gun. itself ns the crowds that gather about it that interests the observer of men and things, says the Chicago Chronicle. It Is the variety of facial expressions which the monster cannon causes that makes the study.' It seems to be man's nature to enjoy whatever stirs his mar tial spirit, and Maria Teresa exerts a powerful influence in that direction and also In refreshing the memory of events of war that transpired long ago. i It is quite common to see two or three gray-haired men get into a con versation "about the big gun, when one will recite an incident of the civil war in which heavy ordnance played a con spicuous part. Then another remem bers incidents of ills soldier days, and then almost unconsciously they move together slowly to a seat under a near by tree aud there light their wars over ngain, each recounting his experiences, hair-brendth escapes and final return to the pursuits of peace. It was this big gun that revived their memories and started the veterans to, the shade of a tree. That they were unacquainted be fore this was no matter, for they were hound by ties of comradeship, aud the first connection of the great cannon with events of a third of a century ago was enough. Xo formal Introduction was needed, nor did It matter hi the least if one. had worn the blue and the other the gray. It was the comrade ship which battlefields create and it needed only this lone trophy gun to I start its tires aglow. I Perhaps the most Interesting visitors of the big gun are children. It Is no- CIS - SPANISH OUX IX LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO. tlced thnt they feel as though they were In the presence of something dreadful, and-the four mortars hard by, each weighing more than 17.000 pounds and capable of throwing a shell of more than 1,000 pounds' weight, only Increases the awe of the youngsters. Children nearly always talk in a low voice while there and move about In pairs or In groups. They seem to catch the meaning of the gun and mortars and what they were made for. "This can non Is about as awe-lnsplrlug to chil dren as a graveyard." said a bystander as a little group walked around the gun, their eyes wide open. There Is a class of people who visit the mortars and the big gun aud find FOR THESPIANS. omit our performance nt Iliiyville to-night. at 5 cents a dozen and tomatoes are rotting Just tlie kind of inspiration they want. They are young men who are ambition to be soldiers and "face .the cannon' mouth.'' Their imagination is' whetted until they can see themselves sweeping; across fields and charging over hills, and the war machinery there arouse' all the martial spirit In them. Tlo-y amuse veterans of the battlefield, but for all that "the big gun and the mon ster mortars teach them a lesson that is altogether wholesome," as an old soldier of many campaigns put it. Then there are the peace-at-auy-prica visitor. The gun and tho mortars to him are fiends, fiends from the under world incarnated in life-destroying agencies agencies that destroy in an ger. "That gun Is a devil in steel, and. its only business iu the world is to deal deatli and destruction," said he to the group he was with, and he worked him self into a frenzy of anger over the aw fulness of sentiment's other than thoso of peace aud good-will toward men. A One-Mun Bond. A Washington man who put In fen years of soldiering iu the regular army of tlie United States was recently ap pointed a captain and nssistaut adjutant-general in the volunteer service, and he is now attached to tlie staff of (Sen. Miles. He is. a man of ability and" great iinpretcntiousness. A few days before he donned his uni form he went over to Fort Mcilenry, Baltimore, on official business, A War Department clerk went along with him. When tlie two men arrived at Fort Vic Henry, the new captain pointed to :i long shell road that runs through the post. "Do you see that road?" asked the captain. "Yes." "Well. I made that whole road my self. It was as tough a job as 1 ever performed, and as bitter a period, but It did me a heap of good. 1 was serv ing with au artillery regiment, part, of which. was stationed here, andx iv. night when I was ou guard the -officer of the day crept up on me unaware aud found nie'sitting down on a pile of gunny sacks, neglecting my post. I got a general court-martial for neglect of duty of post, and was sentenced to sis months In the guardhouse. My sen tence tickled the old provost sergeant mightily, for he was In need of a steady prisoner to build that road. 1 built It. and crunched many a million oyster shells building It. I never find myself feeling chesty and high-and-iiiighty, 3: and all that sort of thing, that I don't shut my eyes and think of this shell road over In Fort Mcilenry." Wash ington Star. Moving Stairways. Two types of moving stairways fur the Manhattan Elevated stations l:i Xew Y'ork City are to be put on trial shortly. One Is a rainp consisting of an endless rubber baud running over drums. In the other type regular step will take the place of the nearly smooth Incline, so that a passenger al ways stands on a level surface. (5ood nature Is a glowworm sheds light In tin darkest places. thai ! 3
