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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1900)
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER CHAS. F. & ADA E. SOULE, Pubs TOLEDO. OREGON In the new "Uncle Tom's Cabin" will Eliza cross the river on an automobile? The Sultan hasn't said that he can not pay, but he admits that It costs him $7,000,000 a year to keep his wives In clothes. A course In accurate counting might well be added to the curriculum of our schools, even if some fad has to be sac rificed to make room for it. There Is a man in Pennslyvania who Is penniless, after having spent $400, 000 In two years. Let a good word be said for him here and now. He put It in circulation. Probably a larger percentage of ap plicants to the universities would be able to pass the examination In spell ing If there were more of the three It's and fewer ologies In our primary edu cation. " The Sultan of Turkey, as a jubilee gift to his nation, remitted all tax ar rears of, more than fifteen years' stand ing. This was truly generous of the Sultan, considering that taxes due fif teen years back are so very easy to collect. The Vanderbilt boys keep on getting tb!r np.mof? in the papers, first by tuli Ing up the work where father left off, next by getting shaved lu Connecticut on Sunday and again by refusing to ac cept the prize won in a yacht race. Well, these things are better than so cial scandals, anyway. A statute similar to the English "cor rupt practices" law might eliminate from politics the abuses of the cam paign assessment and Its attendant cor ruptions. Then, again, it might not. New York State has some such law, but we do not learn that Its politics has been completely purged of evil. Too much dependence Is placed on laws, too little on public virtue. Ie Tocqueville wild sixty years ago that the fate of this republic rested wholly on the vir tues of Its people. This was true then and it is true now. KUa Wheeler Wilcox calls attention to the promptness with which every one helps the blind or the crippled, and says that we should show the same sympathy for the perverse and the wicked, who are morally blind. We should stop to help them as we would a blind man who asked us to help him over the street. This Is a beautiful poetic Idea, and In some cases, more particularly with children, it can be carried out. Hut the trouble Is, the per verse and tlie wicked won't have our help. Nevertheless it Is good to strive after ideals, and if the wrongdoer will not let us turn him from his evil ways we can. help those who see the error of their ways. We can keep our own hands clean and refrain from pushing our fel lows downward Great Hritalu Is preparing for the census of 1001, which will virtually be taken lu a single day, and Is expected to show a population of about forty-one millions in Grout ltrltaln and Ireland. During tin last week In March next, the enumerators will distribute sched ules to heads of families and Institu tions, and upon these blanks the house bolder himself must enter the name of every person who sleeps in his house on the night of Sunday, March HI. Then du the following day the enumerator will collect the schedules. By our sys tem the enumerator, who personally in terviews the householder and writes down the facts given by him, is allowed two weeks to canvass a city district, and a month for a country district. Kucli method has its advantages. The British plau Is likely to be more exact us to the population; but It Is doubtful If Jt would be successful if answers were required to as many inquiries as are made by the American census re garding each person. One of the most startling phenomena of the time, says a writer in the London Outlook, is the great decrease lu the number of children attending Sunday schools. A safe estimate shows a fall ing off of 32,000 scholars lu one year. The shrinkage Is not more marked In one body than In another. The Church of Huglaud equally with the other Prot estant churches has to lament a hiss, and the loss Is greater in reality than the mere numbers show, for the popu lation naturally Increases every year, and the Increase ought to contribute Its ever-growing quota to the Sunday school. That It falls to do so suggests an inquiry probably of greater moment than many social questions that make much noise In the world, Why should the Sunday schools have ceased to at tract? The most obvious answer Is that the days of what was practically com pulsory attendance are over. That means, of course, that the churches are losing some of their moral hold upon the parents. The luferenee seems to ngree with the fact, la ceasing to be dogmatic and to wield pains and penal ties, social and eternal, the churches have laid aside one weapon without at tempting to replace it by another. The prominence of the United States in the work of collecting statistics Is pretty generally admitted. Our census-taking methods are the subject of study all over the world. Japan has two representatives daily at the census bureau and China one, while atta'ches of the European embassies are frequent visitors. The census of the United States Is sometimes criticised for its slowness, but the methods are pains taking and thorough and statistics are collected on many topics that are ig nored by the European governments. For Instance, the statistics of manu factures are nowhere so thorough and excite admiration In every quar ter. Aside from these the United States has won rank as a gatherer of world statistics. The first and best stat istics as to the consumption and pro duction of gold and silver are those prepared by the director of the. mint of the United States. The Engineering and Mining Journal Is the first to an nounce the world's production of all metals each year. The weak point in American statistics is In those dealing with municipalities. The lack of uni formity makes it difficult to compile these with satisfactory result. Of late a movement has arisen In favor of such uniformity and It Is to be hoped that it will spread, for no class of stat istics Is of greater Importance. John Mni'rnv hCMd Cf the LcUdcS publishing house whose experience en titles him to a respectful hearing, lays down these rules regarding standards of judgment In rending fiction: 1. No work of fiction can really be judged until it has been out, say, six or eight years. 2. No book written to suit a passing fashion and colored with the tint of some issue or psychological "question of the day" is ever likely to have permanent value. 3. If any one wishes to test the books of to-day let him or her keep Up a close acquaintance with Robinson Crusoe, the Waverley novels, Dickens, Thackeray and George Eliot. It is extraordinary how much modern work crumbles under tills test. These rules, especially the first and third, reflect the best sense of experi enced readers. Novels, like animals and plants, must submit to the selective process of nature and only the best sur vive. A new novel may create a furore and be In everybody's mouth for a sea son. Hut wait till the frost of judg ment conies. Fashions which have to do with what is fleeting come and go. The reality endures, and only those who see the reality and give it human form can command a hearing beyond the hour. If people who have not time to read everything would wait five years after the publication of a book before rending It much valuable time might be saved. The chances are as 10 to 1 they wouldn't read it because it would be forgotten. But they would have the more delight in reading the saved and saving remnant, the one worthy work surviving ths stern judg ment of taste and thought.' It Is a fact that Is frequently remark ed upon by the observant, although the observant may not be supported by ac tual statistics, that the new generation of Americans, those of the well-to-do classes at least, is taller and better built than the old. If we watch par ents and children walking together as we may eonveuleutly on a Sunday just before or after church time we cannot fall to be struck with the fact that, as a rule, the young men are taller than their fathers aud the young women tall er than their mothers. We also see that they are healthier-looking, with broader shoulders and fuller chests, better complexions aud brighter eyes. The reason for this improvement in the race is not far to seek. Physiologists have long been Interested lu the study of growth, and although they do not yet know why It progresses up to a cer tain point and then stops, they have learned something of the influences that accelerate or retard It. We know, of course, that a man's size depends upon the rate of growth as well as upon Its duration, aud hence anything that makes It progress at a more rapid rate during the allotted period will result lu a larger man. In observations upon puppies and rabbits it has been seen that growth Is favored by all conditions that promote health exercise, fresh air, sleep and nourishing food; and Is retarded by the opposltes. In children also It has been, noted that growth Is more rapid lu couutry homes than In city tenements, during vacation than during school time, In summer than In winter; tht Is to say. It Is favored by the same conditions as those which are advantageous to puppy growth. These conditions exist at the present day In f ullerniensure than they have ever done In the past. Golf, tennis, bicycling aud other outdoor sports, nu Increasing ap proelntlon of the value of good ventila tion In our houses, a gradual disuse of the frying-pan, and in general a more reasonable, and consequently hygienic, way of living, are the agencies at work in making our children the superiors uhvslcally at least, of their parent STYLISH HATS A 4. . rr ff SCHREIBER STOLE A FORTUNE. Kllznbethport Bunk Clerk Squandered $40,000 to Plenae a Woman, Elizabethport, N. J., furnishes a star tliug case of a young man who, fas cinated by the glamour of the wild life in which" women, wine and horses are the principal features, stole from his employers to meet the expenses of his fast living. William Schreiber, a bank clerk, became a fugitive from justice, his uneu mother was placed at death's door as a result of the shock, and the directors of the bank where he was employed must make good the amount he stole $100,000. A reward of $3,000 was offered for his capture. Schreiber is 24 years old and entered the Elizabethport Hank a few years ago. Ills attentiveuess to his duties speedily gained him a good position. About two years ago he began to af fect the airs of a man about town and was known as n good fellow. The bank directors suspected nothing, however, until he failed to return from his sum mer vacation and investigation show ed the enormous extent of his defalca tion. The detectives discovered the facts which constitute a remarkable Btory. Much of Schrelber's stolen money went to the support of Mrs. Anna Hart, a belle of the New York Tenderloin. It Is estimated that over $40,000 was spent for jewelry, horses and carriages, dresses, etc., for this woman. She first met young Schreiber two years ago, SCIIKKIUKK AND NAN 1UHT. and she has ever since, in the language of her class, "played him for a sucker." The young man became Infatuated with her, and spent thousands of dol lars. There was high flying, win ing and dining, theaters for the woman and all her friends, horses and car riages and clothes and diamonds. Mrs. Hart introduced her Willie to all her set. His money put her on the top wave in the Tenderloin. Joe Vendlg was one of her friends. She made the bookkeeper and the bookmaker ac quainted. It was a fine thing, the young Jerseyman who had worked for $!HH) a year In Elizabethport thought, to know this friend and patron whose name was constantly lu the newspa pers, who knew all the prize fighters and gamblers In New York. "Circular Joe" was good to the boy who had both money and sporting blood. They went around to the prize lights together. They bet on them together, and accord ing to Joe they made money. They "bunched their bets," the youngster following the veteran's tips. Alto gether, according to Vendig, they profit ed more than $7,000 apiece. But Schrel ber's share did not do him much good. He spent It on the woman who was leading him about by the nose and showing him high life lu the Tender loin. While she was showing him life In the Teuderlolu, he was doing his best to show her a little high life outside of it Last fall he sent her down to the jjjlj!" ''" t PL FOR FA LI Lakewood Hotel, where her gowns and her jewels were just as resplendent as any that the swellest of the swell could sport. Later nothing would do for the hlgh-flylug woman but she must needs go to the Paris Exposition. It cost her ardent Jersey financier a pang to have her go while he must stay to steal the wherewithal to pay for the trip, but he did not deny her. She went and he re mained. About the first of August she with new Paris raiment. She went through the Tenderloin with a splurge that rent the heart of ' every Jenloua rival. When Schreiber disappeared an at tachment was placed on all her goods and the bank directors hope to recover from her some of the stolen property. She says that Schreiber never gave her more than a gold ring and a poodle and says she will fight for her property. GREAT NAPOLEON'S DOUBLE. His Americnu Cousin So Like Him that He Waa Excluded from France. "During the next ten years the cher ished ambtlon of Mine. Bonaparte was to marry her son, Jerome, to a girl of rank," writes William Terrlne of Eliza beth Patterson, the American wife of Jerome Bonaparte, In the Ladles' Home Journal. "Various plans were medi tated, particularly his proposed, lnai1 riage to one of the daughters of Joseph Bonaparte, who was then living In com fortable exile at Philadelphia and at Bordentown, New Jersey, and who was even solicited to place himself active ly at the head of the Bonaparte interest in France after the death of Napoleon at St. Helena. But "Bo," the pet name she gave her son, was little Inclined to help along these matrimonial specula tions. Her especial desire was that he would not fall in love with an Amer ican, and that he would always bear in mjnd the possibility that the French .ope might call a Bonaparte like him their throne. Jut all Mine. Bonaparte's darling pes for her son were doomed to dis ipoihtment. In ISL'9, while she was Europe, she learned that he had mar ed an estimable young woman in Bal more. While the second Jerome "aparte, who was a graduate of . vard College, was never naturallz- V ad aa'an American citizen, he became a fl'ofgTtly respected gentleman both In this Country and abroad. It was frequent ly observed In Europe thnt he resem bled his uncle, the great Emperor, more than Napoleon's own brothers or any other of his kinsmen. Indeed, his fig ure, the cast of his head, the regular ity of his features nnd his eyes were so much like the Emperor's that there was some fear in France during the Louis Philippe monarchy that the re semblance might stir the Napoleonic affections of the people, and he was for bidden from visiting Paris even while traveling Incognito." Half of the quarrels between a man and his wife start when she is doing up her hair. We could stand having our enemies hate us if our friends would only love us, but they don't. After a girl gets married she tries to look at an old maid as If she was some kind of a curiosity. No man could ever live for very long with the kind of woman that always means more than she says. Half the girls you meet are either pretty or clever. The other half are ones who would make good wives. Nothing makes a woman buy a thing she doesn't want so quick as to have the clerk act like h thought she couldn't afford it BABOON AS A SOLDIER. itan-Like Animal the Pet of a British Regiment in South Africa. During the war in South Africa the iniusing mad boulevard Parisians be :ame sadly wrought up about a ruiu6r that the British were using trained ba boons and even gorillas to fight the Boers. France seized on the story with avidity, for It pointed at once to a pleas ing shortage of men In the British army ind a satisfying ferocity. . The entire story grew out of the fact that one British regiment, the Duke of Edinburgh's Own Volunteer Bifles, really did have attached to it an im mense baboon as the official pet of the soldiers." He had been caught on the Fraserburg road, and Sergeant Tearson took him under his personal charge. It was not long before the man-like ani mal had made himself at home, and after the first engagement, he took a positive delight in the sound of artil lery fire. WThen the troops were cross ing the Vaal River, General Warren rode up to the officers of the D. E. O. V.'s and demanded, in hot rage, what In the name of the God of War he meant by leaving the wagon with the men's iits in charge of a monkey. Investiga :lon showed that the convoying soldiers had missed the road, and that the ba- JOCKO EMPTIES A CAN'lEK.V. boon, who had stuck to the wagons, was working bravely, picking up the kits as they rolled off and holding fast to movable articles that were bounc ing up and down wildly, as the wagons jolted along the rocky road. Not long afterward the monkey was. playing with the men in the Maxim de tachment when the Boers attacked fiercely. A terrible fire was poured in on them, and the colonel and several men fell mortally wounded. Jocko, in stead of scampering away, imitated the action of the survivors and sought cover. He found it behind an upturned leather bucket, and remained there, showing no fear, but taking Infinite pains to keep out of the way of projec tiles. This exploit made him a popular fa vorite with the entire army corps, and the men even excused him when they discovered, during an arduous march hi heat and dust, that Jocko had found out how to unscrew the stoppers of the canteens, and that he had drunk or wasted almost all the water of the regi ment. mm mm If you want busiuess In this end of the century, you must go after it in an "end-of-the-ceutury" manner. Rhode Island Advertiser. If an advertisement Is so plain that the veriest dunderpate cannot mistake a v u u v iiuiuk, it n 111 Lri ii i v mil I - misunderstood by others whose mental ity Is of a higher character. Printer's Ink. Advertising is the foe of monopoly. If advertising should cease, it seems probable that all business would even tually drift to two or three of the larg est dealers In each commodity. Profit able Advertising. The merchant who would leave a city for New York in a stage coach to-day instead of a Pullman would not be further behind in business principles than the man who quietly sits down fvlthout advertising and expects the apld moving, hustling world to bother (Itself In hunting him up so as to do Jjusluoss with him. Huntsvllle (Ala.) Tribune. Advertising promotes cordial rela tions between seller and buyer. News paper readers become Interested In an tulvertlsement which appears dally, and quickly feel a like interest in the adver tiser, speaking of him as familiarly as Ithey do of personal friends. These re flations are not only desirable but nec !e8sary In busiuess, for upon them wholly depends the merchant's success Philadelphia Record.