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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1900)
f H LOVE SET. I NE sunny morning In early July I 1 sat with my sister, Lady Emily, by the side of the river. Nature ! uad donned ber summer dress, tbe riv er flowed silently away between banks In green dresses, trimmed with rushes, unong which the water diamonds spar kled In the sunshine. Great trees hung lovingly over the clear water, gazing t their finery mirrored In Its depths, as If they would never tire of admir ing themselves In their beautiful sum mer clothing. This Is Lady Emily's description of tie scene. I was busy fishing. There seemed no one In the world' but ourselves and the flies. "Where is Tommy this morning?" I Inquired, rescuing my hook from the Interior of a misguided fish. Emily emerged from a parasol, behind which she had retreated during the operation. She said I reminded her of Nero on uch occasions. . "I have sent him Into the village to do some shopping ' for me," she ex plained. I whistled softly. "Three miles In this heat! Great Is the power of love." "I am a little worried about him," said Emily. "Oh, he'll be all right Ice applied to the head works wonders," I remarked cheerfully. "It's not that; but but I believe he Is going to propose." "I should not think so," I said Judic ially. "Ills feelings, when he returns from the village, very hot and tired, will be rather those of hatred of the tyrant who sent him on such a jour ney." "I shall mix him some oatmeal wa ter." "And add Insult to injury." "He says he likes It." "Then, probably he will propose. Mat ters seem to have gone far." "But It will upset everything If he does," said Emily plaintively. "Why?" I inquired. "Because It's impossible, of course and he'll go away, and I shall be with out anvone to to fetch things from the village." "Shall I awaken the echoes of the past?" said I presently. I began to count the echoes on my fingers. "Charlie Musgrave! Lord Hartley!" and so on, until I began gain at my thumb. Then Emily lnter- lered. "You dare!" she said. For a time a neighboring cuckoo mo nopolized the conversation. Then Emily said, "There's Tommy." A white figure was crossing a bridge a little way higher up the river. There was a weariuess in his gait that went to my heart, and I seemed to feel In myself the torture of thirst that must possess him. "You are going to meet him?" I In quired, seeing Emily rise. "Yes," she replied, giving herself that wonderful little shake with which a woman can banish all disorder from her attire. " Returning home In the cool of the evening. I observed a letter lying on the table addressed to Emily In a hand unmistakably masculine. I was In formed that she was out, also that Mr. Boytou was out. I drew my con clusions, and, knowing the favorite haunts of my sister, I took the letter and went out In quest of them. I found them sitting together under the trees, watching the fish rising at the flies. At least, that Is what they said they were doing. "I hope I am not Intruding," said I. "Oh, no!" said Emily. "Certainly not very pleased lovely evening warm!" muttered Tommy In articulately. I fancied he was not quite sincere, . and proceeded to offer one of my best cigars, as a proposition. I lit another myself, and we sat In silence fof many minutes. The air was Intensely still; the blue smoke wreathed upward, and hung In miniature clouds over our beads, to the great discomfort of the neighboring flies. "Do you want the boat this even ing?" Inquired Tommy abruptly. "No." . "Will vou come on the river?" he asked of Emily. She assented, and, as they rose to go, I remembered my mission and produced the letter. "For you, Emily," I said, giving It to ber. "I think from the writing it Is ' from er well you know r There was an Infinite subtility of Bug gee t Ion In my voice; I rejoiced In my diplomacy. But Emily glared at me. "Yes, certainly I know!" she said. "Dolly Harwood promised ; to write to me thls: week from Faris." Now the postmark said the letter came from London.. They departed, but not before Emily had hurled at me, in the Intense whisper, the, word "Silly!" I lit a fresh cigar, and walked back to the house. Sitting In the- garden, some two hours later, Lady Emily Join ed me. Tommy, she told me, was put ting the boat away. "I wonder If you will ever learn to be sensible?" she remarked, sinking into a chair at my side. "I am getting very old," I replied, shudderintr. "Oh, you are bald, I know!" said Emily, with cruel blnntuess, "but why did you give that letter and behave so foolishly before Tommy?" "I did It for the best. I thought that that he would think " "Poor fellow!" she said gently! "I suppose you can't help It, yet It seems Incredible. Why," 'she continued, the gentleness disappearing,- "you drove him to desperation and he's proposed!" "Forgive me!" I Implored. "I sup pose you refused him?" "WHy should you suppose so?" Emily asked with some asperity. "You told me you would." "Well, I haven't not definitely. I have promised to give an answer the end of the week." And presently she added softly, "lie's awfully nice, you know." After all, a girl manages these, mat ters better for herself. AH went smoothly for three days. I fished; Em ily and Tommy well, I cannot say ex actly what they did. I did not see much of them. But ou Thursday morning Emily came to me with a letter In her hand and consternation in her face. "Johnny," she said, "Sorrell is com ing down." I whistled. "It's awful!" said Emily. "The situation Is certainly critical." "I asked him to. wait a month for my answer, and It Is up on Saturday." "And Tommy?" "He's up on Saturday, too," "You have a couple of days In which to make your decision." On the Saturday afternoon she de cided the matter In a manner eminently characteristic of her sex. She told me that the two suitors would do battle for her hand In the tennis court. The arrangement was not made verbally, she explained, but well, they knew. And there, In the Intense heat of the July sun, those two unforunates ran about the lawn, dodging and hitting, and making themselves scarlet, drip ping, and unpleasant to the eye. Jkly sister and I watched them from under the cool shade of the trees, Emily eat ing huge quantities of Ice cream to steady her nerves. But Tommy was hopelessly outplayed. Five love, for tyfifteen; the ball flew from Sorrell's racket Into the corner where Tommy was not, and the game was over. The duelists approached and were given oatmeal water to drink. In the general conversation that followed Tommy seemed depressed, but Sorrell's spirits were high. He had a noisy, self-asserting manner at times which jarred on me excessively. After dinner, as I sat smoking In )he garden, Emily came to me, holding her bands behind her. "Which hand will you have?" she Inquired, dropping me a little courtesy. "Run away!" I replied; "I am disap pointed with you." She held out her left hand, and I saw the flash of diamonds. H'm!" I grunted, "Sorrcll seems to have made very certain of the mat ter." Emily knelt beside me and stroked my nose. "It Isn't Sorrell, you silly old thing!" "But" I began In great astonlsh-meL-t. "It's Tommy, of course!" "But Sorrell had the six games!" "Yes," said Emily. And after she bad kissed me three times she added, softly: "But Tommy had the love, you know." Which, after all, was a most excel lent reason. When a woman sends a boy over with a note to borrow the preserving kettle, she violates a well-established law If she falls to sign the note "Your true friend." Teople often pretend to when they are not ' be fooled THE HOG IN HISTOHY. REFLECTIONS ON PORK AS AN j ARTICLE OF DIET. Many Contentions Have Arisen Over Its Use as Food Much-Maligned Animal that Resembles Siau. in More than One Respect. The hog of to-day constitutes no less ;han 370 different articles of commerce, nd next to cotton and wheat furnishes the largest values In exports from the United States. Its name has become in epithet. Its application to man means greed and brutishuess. It is com monly supposed to be a scavenger, like the puddle duck. It takes mud baths. So do men. There Is much virtue in mud. The hog bathes in pools of it to coat his skin against attacks of insects; man dips his festered hide in it to im prove his circulation and draw out his gout and rheumatism. The hog Is pachydermatous; so is man notwith standing Cuvler's classification. I have seen men, know men to-day, with skins thicker than the hide of the rhinoceros. The hog is omnivorous so is man. The hog Is carnivorous by choice so is man. The hog is herbivorous, granlvorous, gramnivorous aud phytivorous by edu cationso Is man. These reflections are induced by the Indignities offered n iipfl nr:'.l. The hog was the clennest of beasts until man built a sty and imprisoned him lu filth, fattened him on filth, killed him In filth and ate blm In filth. No animal, wild or domestic, is io clean bout Its bed asHhe hog. It wants pure, sweet, fresh straw every time.. The liog has brains. It has been known to bxeel the pointer In scenting quail. An luthentic Instance Is mentioned by Biugley in "Memoirs of British Quad rupeds" of a keen-scented sow that would stand at birds which the dogs had missed. Whoever heard of an edu- sated ox or sheep? Yet we have had n our stage educated hogs that could pell and play cards, count and tell the time. Hogs make docile pets. Many a poor family has its pet pig sleeping on the pallet beside the children, priv ileged to the best in the house. The hog caused the biggest mutiny ver known in tbe history of the world, ind was responsible for men being blown from the muzzles of cannon. When Great Britain shipped cartridges to India for the native troops she reck oned without her host, for the ammuni tion was greased with lard, which so offended the religious scruples of the sepoys that they arose as one man in rebellion. The American hog nearly ?aused war between Germany and the United States and only the diplomacy f Whltelaw Reld obtained for the ani mal admission Into France. Moses and Mohammed were opposed to the hog because, while It divides the hoof and Is cloven-footed, yet It chews not the cud. The camel Is not eaten for opposite reasons it chews the cud, but Is not cloven-footed. The hare is also unclean, because while It chews the cud it divides not the hoof. All civ ilized nations have passed and repassed laws governing what a man shall ent and how much It shall cost him, but tbe only sumptuary measure that ever stood the test of time Is the law of Moses concerning the hog. It has been on the statute book for 3,300 years. SACRED RELIC OF ASHANTEE. Golden Stool Has Keen the Cause of Many Wars witb England. The golden stool of Ashantee's mon archs has for many years been the eause of contention between the na tives and the British. Descriptions of It have been conspicuously wantiug and it has remained as mythical as the golden fleece which Jason and the Ar gonauts stole from the sacred oak of Dolchls or the three golden apples which bung In the garden of the llesperldes, The announcement that the recent up rising was the result of attempts of the governor, Sir Frederic Hodgson, to re :ovcr the sacred relic was generally In terpteted in two ways by Americans: Either the British were attempting to rob the tribesmen of a large nugget of precious metal or the account had some meaning not understood, as would be the case, for instance with the news Df the crowning of King Kl Kl of the Kansas City carnival. But the golden stool Is a real stool, although it Is not made of gold. It means more to the Africans of the Gold Coast than the ancient scone stone which forms the support of the corona tion chair of England signifies to the loyal Briton. This symbol of authority, on which the kings of the Ashantees a.ve been crowned for nearly 100 years, In doubly prized as a piece of remark able workmanship and as a spoil of conquest. It was captured from the Sultan of Jam In early In the cenfury. Its base Is an oblong piece of wood, heavily glided. In the center of this Is a gilt support, resembling a char coal brazier; on each side are square pillars. These, with the brazier, sup port a concave seat. The tool Is not the only article In the regalia. There Is a state umbrella aud there are, golden axes and curiously carved scimitars. After his enthronement the king oc cupies the golden stool only once a year. 1 he ret of time It Is put on one of the richly carved arm chairs for which the natives are famous and. kept near hlu usual seat. When Gen-t ! eral Wolseley captured Coomassle, the Ashantee capital, in 1S74, the stool had been secretly removed and it has re mained ever since In the possession of the tribesmen. The last time a white man saw It was seven years ago. King I'rempeh had not been able to afford the coronation ceremonies, so he sought a loan of ?2,000 from the British for the purpose. When the commissioners sent to negotiate the affair were ushered into the monarch's presence a band of musicians played on elephants' tusks. "Under a large and gorgeous canopy," says Dr. Freeman, one of the commis sioners, "stood a roomy chair of native manufacture, studded with bright-headed nails and enriched with silver orna ments and on this reposed the cele brated royal stool. Trempeh was seat ed on a similar chair under his own um brella and not under the canopy." Early in 1900 the astute Ashantees de clared they could not pay taxes to a governor who had never sat upon the golden stool. To be able to satisfy their scruples Sir Frederic Hodgson be gan the search for the royal emblem which resulted In the recent war. riants, like animals, are continually wandering to fresh fields and pastures new. Trofessor Kellcrman finds that of the present flora of Ohio no less than 430 are immigrants. Almost all are from Europe. The number of stars distinctly visi ble without the aid of a glass Is put by Gould at 5,333. Professor New comb says their number Is near 7,047. These are up to the sixth magnitude. Professor Newcomb estimates the number up to the 14.5 magnitude at two hundred million. The country most frequently visited by earthquakes Is Greece, and not Japan, as was hitherto generally be lieved. During the six years from 1893 to 1898, not less than 3,187 earthquakes were observed in Greece, 1. e., about twice as many as occurred In Japan within the same time. The Island of Zanta alone had 2,018 shocks during that period. The great majority of our birds live by taking insects on the wing, and as they cannot obtain this sort of food after the reign of frost has Bet In, they are compelled to betake themselves to a warmer clime. Most of them fly In small companies, but certain species often migrate in large flocks, and the most prominent examples of these, next to the famous wild pigeons of tho West, are the swallows, notably the whltc- bellled species. A favorlto route of these swift flyers Is over the salt marshes which border the sea. Claude Fuller, the English govern ment entomologist In Natal, South Af rica, says that the Basutos eat locusts, even making cakes of them, as he is Informed. In Pletermarltzburg the na tives, and some of the whites, gather the flying termites that are attracted by the electric lamps, and use them both for fish bait and for food. They are sometimes toasted and sometimes fried In a pan with butter. He quotes from a friend the statement that bugong moths are cooked by the natives on hot ashes and eaten with great gusto. French meteorologists engaged In the exploration of the upper air by means of captive balloons have found that, owing to the effect of the sun's heat on the balloons, the best results are at tained at night, aud their most suc cessful experiments have been per formed by moonlight. The balloons carry self-registering thermometers and barometers aud attain enormous heights, varying between 40,000 and 50,000 feet. The highest flight recorded by the Instruments Is nearly nine and one-third miles. ' Last winter there was discovered at Chateaudun In France an example of the rare phenomenon known In popular phrase as "the king of rats." It con sisted, of seven living rats inextricably bound together by the interlacing of the tails. A photograph of the slngu lar group, together with a description, was sent to a scientific Journal In Paris. The name king of rats Is based upon the tradition that the king of the world of rats and mke Is accustomed occa sionally to enthrone himself, adorned with a golden crown, upon a group of rats with tails entwined. Several In stances of this curious phenomenon are recorded in books on nntural hlHtory. It Is said that the king of rats Is formed only In the winter, when the animals crowd together to keep warm, and tho rodent friends of the unfortunate prls oners are credited with feeding them out of benevelonce. Cheering Him Up. Mr. Newlywed I saw your old lover on the street to-day looking awfully blue. Mrs. Newlywed I hope you tried to cheer him up. "Oh, yes. I showed him my button less shirt nnd that new tie you bought me." Judge. fe The cau?e exists in the blood, in what causes inflammation of the niucouH membrane. It is tnerefore impossible t cure the disease by local applications. It is positively dangerous to neg lect it, because it always affects tbe stomach and deranges the gen eral health, and is likely to develop into consumption. Many have been radically anil perma nently'cured by Hood's biiraapaiilia. it cleanses the blood and htitt a peculiar al terative nnd tonic eu'eet, U. Lung, ("uli fornia Junction, Iowa, writes: "I had ca tarrh three years, lost my appetite and could not sleep. My head pained me and I felt bad nil over. I toffk Hood's Sarsa parillannd now have u good appetite, sleep well, and have no symptoms of catarrh." Hood's S&rsapaHiia Promises to cure and keeps tbe promise. It is better not to put oil treatment buy Hood's 1o:day. Order of Colored Nun. In New Orleans is an order of col ored nuns, founded many years ago. It was instituted for the special pur pose of giving education and moral training to young colored girls and to i.uio i'ui ojpiiHua aui aged, lull nil per sons of their race. In itw orphan asy lum are children of all ages up to 14 years. The convent is a statoly build ing more than a century old, in the old French quarter "of New Orleans, and once was an opera house and ball room. ' Stops tho Cough and WorksOff tho Gold. Laxative Bro'uo-CjuimuH Tablets oure a cold in one day. No ture, No Pay., Price 25 cents. , Put the sugar used for sweetening fruit tarts in the middle of the fruit, not on the top, or it will sodden the pu6try E. C. Atkins & Co., saw manufac turers, Indianapolis, 1ml., received a gold medal at the Paris exposition in the department of machinery, which included all kinds of saws operated by machinery, the other group containing their hardware exhibit of hand saws, cross cut saws, wood saws, etc. This latest success, following the victory of the Atkins saws in the reeeut interna tional sawing contest in Australia, will do much to establish the reputation of the brand in tbe markets of the world. Fish and onions, or strongly flavored foods, must be kept separate. Mothers will find Mrs. Winnlow's Pooth- n ff Kvrnn the bent reined v to una for their nhildren during the teething period. When using froeeu meat the great point is to slowly and thoroughly thaw it before cooking.- ', , : : ;, Kansas, in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of her admission into the Union as a territory, porpoxes to hold in 1904, atTopeka, her capital city, an inteistate exposition. S Good cider differs greatly from that made of inferior apples. Instead of using half rotten apples select th)se that are perfect aud fully ripe. When the cider is , runninf; from the press strain it thoroughly. Use lard barrels, first cleaning the lard from the barrel, but should a little tulhero to the sides it will he an advantage. Keep the barrel in a cool place and allow no air to enter other than that which forces in during the drawing at the spigot or faucet. Belgian llre a Pent. The Belgian hare as a fad is a thing of the pant. The craze is over and now the dangers lurking in it are beginning to suggest themselves soriouHly to the publio mind. It is realized that an animal poHseswd of such wonderful fe cundity is liable to bnuoinu a destruct ive pent if it eKCiipoH from captivity. Repressive legislation is, therefore, deemed necessary. The board of sup ervisors of Kan Diego county has taken the initiative by passing an ordinance prohibiting the liberation of a Belgian hare or purimtting one that may have escaped to lemaiu at large or uncon- lined. Apt farmer who will make a special ty of producing an extra quality of fruit butter or vegetables, will not be compelled to feck a market after his produce becomes known. Hundreds of merchants are seeking the choice goods, and they are willing to pay high prices for superior articles, be cause they can make larger profits therelrom. The distance from New York to Ban Francisco by water, around Cape Horn is 15,600 miles. By the Isthmian canal the distance between the same points would bo 4,007 milesa saving of 10,753 miles. If using tinned apricots or peaches a drop or two of almond essence added is an improvement, as it supplies the, loss of the kernel flavoring. CiiUiS WHLHt , Ht ALLlLSt I AllS. Dot Cough Syrup, f ala OixmT. DM In t'tp. Sold fir flrtwtfUm.