Lincoln County leader., February 07, 1902, Image 2

LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER.
CHAS. F. & ADA K. SOULK, Pulm.
TOLEDO OREGON.
Another war has broken out in South
A .-....t i i
Aiuviicu, piouamy 10 prevent an in
terruption of the sequence.
If King Edward's coronation is any
thing like its prospectus it will ut
least add to the gayety of nations.
An old bachelor says there is uoth
ing at all remarkable about the fact
that only the female niosquitos atiuoy
us.
The daughters of cabinet officers
when their approaching marriages are
announced get rather more prominence
before the public than do their dis
tinguished papas.
The injunction is a handy thing to
have about the hotiHe. It has been in
voked by a New Jersey girl to restrain
a youuw man whom she says promised
to marry her from marrying another
girl.
German doctors may get excited be
cause of the enormous Increase of
quacks, but they do not seem to rise
Jo the profuudity of truth that adver
tising pays. According to the regular
school u "quack" is a doctor who is
short on professional ethics and long
on practice.
An editor wlm types converted
"spider web social" into "spindle leg
social" has taken to the hills, a wan
derer upon the face of the earth, not
through fear of the ladles who attend
ed the party, but because his amazon
ian wife is so unreasonable as to insist
upon being shown how he secured the
information.
From the settler's cabin may come
a Clay. From the towpath of the ca
nal may come a Gnrlield. From the
woods may emerge a Lincoln. From
the cornfields may rise a poet and a
scholar. Hut who looks to the tene
ments of New York and Boston and
Philadelphia for our future presidents
and our future masters of literature
and art and linance? Who looks to
the slums of the great cities and to
their fetid sweatshops for the world's
leaders and torchboarersY Yet the
drift of tliis country is steadily toward
the tenement, and tin- drift from the
tenement is toward the slum.
It appears that the punishment
meted out to the reckless bicyclist is
quite inadequate to impress upon the
reckless automohilist I lie seriousness
of his offense. To a man able to own
an automobile valued at say $2,000
what is a .flit Hue to hlmY A mere
bagatelle If for each violation of the
speed limit law he should be mulcted
in the sum of from $200 to $400 per
haps it might make some impression
on him. A still more salutary effect
would be secured by a brief term of
imprisonment -for the lawbreaker the
oretically stands in the same light be
fore the bar of Justice, be he million
aire or vagrant.
The successful utilization of waste
products has been a large factor in the
solution of the problem of production
worked out by this generation. The
meat-packing Industry is a notable il
lustration. Should the packers only
make excuses from the packing busi
ness the waste product would afford
ample profit. However, the utiliza
tion of waste, the turning of refuse
into profit is only in its Infancy. It is
no fancy, that story of the chemist
who turned a pair of boots Into a line
quality of Jelly. In the Middle Ages
nucha man would have been a magician,
lie would have examined the entrails,
watched the flight of birds or noticed
which way the smoke I dew ere he an
nounced such a metamorphosis. To
day Hie magician converts old skirts
Into glucose, makes ink from an old
copper coffee st and writing paper
from old collars. The possibilities of the
future transcend present belief. A New
York physician says that good milk can
Ihj made from the sewage of the city,
lie could furnish as much from the
present sewage volume as can be pro
duced from a hundred thousand cows.
It is simply a question of producing
the milk more cheaply than from cows.
When It Is remembered that the smoke
from smelters Is carefully converted
Into white lead and the waste soap
suds from large woolen factories is
now converted Into pressed brick, some
conception Is afforded of the apparent
ly fantastic, but really useful adapta
tions, of modern chemistry.
A peculiar phenomena Is observable
In the fact that while the nation,
through the policy of expansion. Is
growing more cosmopolitan, In spots It
Is growing more provincial. It Is true
that certain districts In the United
States are becoming more and more
Isolated because of certain conditions.
Evidences may I to. discovered In the
mountain districts of Kentucky where
the feud of the middle ages Is as strong
as It was years ngo. ltcgluns In Tennes
see, northern Oeorgla and West Vir
ginia are untouched by the swift move
ment of modern thought. Peculiarities,
customs and modes of thought bind
communities or this sort into narrow
ness and isolation. Even our language
is distorted into dialects, so that as in
scriptural times, a man's speech betray
eth him. You can tell the down East
Yankee by his omission of the "r," the
Southerner by his concessions to ne
gro dialect, and the rounder of the
city by his patois. Communities are
provincial in many things. Who
would look for an unbiased opinion of
the Chinese coolie on the Pacific coast if
And yet what people more than the
Californians admit the Chinese to their
households? How many planters in
the cotton states believe the negro has
a soul? Note how aristocratic dwell
ers in "Athens" religiously stand by
Kostonese as good Englist. "Can any
good come out of Chicago?" asks the
New York City provincial. The Mls
sourlan has to be "shown" when Iowa
Is concerned. We are coming to be a
broad nation In many particulars, but
we remain very narrow in spots.
The Judge who sustained a ruling of
the Treasury Department that Immi
grants afllicted with tuberculosis had
no right to enter the country did not
go Into the merits of the case. He sim
ply held that the matter was one for
the Treasury officials to decide. But
it is clear that the Treasury decided
wisely, that it Is doing no more than It
should to protect the health of the
country. Tuberculosis is the most de
structive disease known. In Europe, as
well as in the United States, it is the
cause of more deaths than any other.
Epidemics of plague and fever are re
sponsible for more scares and sensa
tions, and occasionally produce a high
death rate and a large mortality list,
but tuberculosis works steadily year In
and year out with the persistence of
fate. It cannot be cured like the epi
demics, and though new and promis
ing remedies are announced every little
whiletheone thing of a remedial nature
upon which the best medical minds
agree and insist Is that the greatest
care should be taken to prevent its in
ception and spread. There Is no doubt
that it is communicable; that the agent
for its dissemination is the sputum of
patients; that without strict regula
tions this agent is apt to be found ev
erywhere. The seed of the disease Is in
the street of every town and city, In
the workshop and on the farm. Hence
the recommendations for the segrega
tion of consumptives and the erection
of public hospitals for their special
care. When the dread of the disease is
so great and such extraordinary pre
cautions are urged against It within
the country it is certainly reasonable
that official precautions should be
taken to prevent its importation. They
are fully as justifiable as the measures
which are taken to keep the sufferers
from contagious diseases in quaran
tine. Prof. Gcorgeson, who has been rep
resenting the Department of Agricul
ture. in Alaska, has prepared a pleas
ant surprise for the American people.
it appears that the current notion of
Alaska as a bleak and somewhat ter
rifying wilderness, abounding chiefly
In gold deposits and riirorous winters.
is not altogether accurate. Alaska cau
be made the home of the farmer as
well as that of the miner. .There are
it least four strips of territory, says
'rof. (Jeorgeson. where for about 400
miles the hardier grains can be cul
tivated with success. It Is true these
strips are not so spacious as the MIs-
Isslppl alley, being only thirty or
orty miles wide at most. But, small
s they are. they are fertile, and on
heir 10,tHMt,(HiO acres It Is thought
hat a population of ;!.(MM),(MH) people
might lind a comfortable subsistence.
Besides the cereals, vegetables are
nind to thrive In the Alaskan cli
mate, and during the past year the
iwn of Dawson was fully supplied
vlth green vegetables grown at home,
t was also proved that grazing is a
respective Alaskan industry. Horses,
iheep ami cattle can find excellent pas
ure and can get through the winter
veil when turned out to lind their own
nod. What with cereals, therefore,
id vegetables and stock, the farmer
the Yukon valley will le able to set-
i' down in that part of the world as
lei innnent resident. It is to be under
stood, of course, that the hardships of
Alaskan life are undeniable. While the
country is by no means the gigantic
Iceberg which some people suppose It
to be, yet the climate Is a little bit more
than bracing, and the farms, though
good, can never be of the kind called
bonanza. Alaskan agriculture, as Prof.
Georgeson .remarks. Is for the small
fanner, who shall own his own land
and who shall support himself largely
by what he himself produces. To such
a man, Intelligent and industrious,
Alaska offers great opportunities, for.
like the "Great American desert" and
much of the Canadian Northwest Terri
tory, It has outlived Its reputation for
sterility and hopelessness, and Is now
ready to be exploited.
All Surprised.
Bessie I was surprised when Mr.
Dashlelgh asked me to marry him.
Tessle Everybody else was! Ohio
State Journal.
QUAINT KOREAN CEREMONY.
Weird Kites of Releasing a Soul from
the Pangs of Purgatory.
The ceremony In the old South Gate
was held to release a spirit from hell,
says the author of a delightful paper
on Korea.
In the middle of the dense crowd fill
ing the pavilion was a rectangular
space. At each end stood a man with
a big fold of loose cloth In his arms.
Beside each of them a woman stood.
Around them ran the folds of the
cloth, which also crossed the rectangle
diagonally. On the folds were Chinese
characters, and in the midst of them.
In the open space, stood the sorceress,
wearing a red shirt with red bands over
her shoulders, and long, loose sleeves
flopping in the air. With her was an
old woman beating big cymbals to
gether. Before them were the widow
and son of the man whose spirit was
by this ceremony to be released from
hell. At one side a woman beat a drum
resembling two hour glasses, and be
hind her were three great tissue paper
figures suspended in the air and wav
ing wildly. These represented spirits.
The crowd shunned them awesomely.
On the floor before the sorceress was a
little table holding two peeled melons,
one red, one yellow, some wine in a
green bottle and three green apples,
which It was pleasant to think would
surely give the little devils cholera
morbus. The widow, an ugly, scarred
faced woman, poured out some wine
and prostrated herself before the table
several times. The son, a well-dress-d
fellow, did the same, while the sorcer
ess, kneeling down, beat the cymbals
Io eall the devils to the offering. A na
tive told me that the man had been
dead four years, that the devil had pre
sumptive rights for three years, but
that the deceased could now be got off,
provided, of course, the moutong wom
an was satisfied with her remuneration.
When the performance lasted three
days It would often cost $100. The
pieces of cloth would be burned, the
native said, to make a ladder for the
spirit from hell to heaven. The surplus
folds In the men's arms went fb the
sorceress. Leslie's Magazine.
America has 28,000 druggists.
New York has 40,000 night workers.
In Japan there are less than 450
men who have $230,000 apiece.
Canada's forests snre found to be
equal to supplying the world with
pulp wood alone for 840 years, on the
basis ot 1,300.000 tons of manufac
tured pulp a year.
There are SO.000 persons, men and
women, employed in what the law
describes as gainful occupation
working for others for compensation
in New York City.
The employes of the Grand Trunk
railway at Port Huron. Mich., have
raised a fund of $3,000 to establish a
co-operative store where they can
purchase the things they need at lower
prices.
The tctal value of the manufacture
of bricks and tiles In the United
States In 1000 was $70,330,871 and of
pottery $19,70S,07O.
Locomotives to burn oil are appear
ing In the Pacific States. They are
built with the cab and furnace In
front and the smokestack behind. The
tender is discarded, and the oil and
water are conducted in pipes.
Circulars issues by the Carpenters'
Council of St. Ixniis, have been re
ceived in Chicago, stating that St
Louis Is flooded with carpenters, and
fhat work on the World's Fair build
ings will not begin until next spring.
William B. Eckert. one of the oldest
members of the printers' craft, died at
the Union Printers' Home In Colorado
Springs. The cause was old age, the
deceased being S4. Mr. Eckert was the
ttrRt member admitted to the home at
the time of Its opening. 10 years ngo.
lie came from the Philadelphia uulon
and was a worthy and respected mem
ber. He had the distinction of being
one of the original founders of the
Typographical Uulon of North Ameri
ca in 1852, and always had been one
of the strongest and most upright
members.
Symbolic.
The Cheerful Idiot I notice our land
lady Is up on foot-ball.
The Gloomy Sage How so?
The Cheerful idiot Why, she serves
her pie In "hollow wedges." Brooklyn
Eagle.
Fis Pretense.
We're all often forced to rob Feter
In order to settle with Paul.
But some of n merely rob Peter
And Paul never sees us at all.
Philadelphia Press.
Indians in Alaska.
The native Indians of Alaska num
ber 29,530, a gain of 4.1 82 In ten yean.
You Just naturally hate to have some
people "sell" you.
THE STORY
T. UinTfm' ivnrtu In n dnwil-
'A
i town book concern and makes a
nrettv fair salarv weekly. The
trouble with Harlow has been that for
something over a year past he spent
more than the stipeud which-the big
publishers' bookkeeper poked into his
envelope every Saturday night. Al
was born with several generous streaks
In him, and as he approached adoles
cence he developed an inclination to go
generosity one better or worse, and ac
tually to throw money away. Harlow
Is good-looking and there never was
a generous man who lacked friends.
The girls in young Harlow's set all
thought it's a question what they're
thinking now, though that he was just
about right. They gauged him perhaps
by the candy, flower and theater ticket
standard. If it be not ungalhint even
to hint such a thing it may be put down
right here that the young women in Al
Harlow's set played the young fellow
for literally more than the young fellow
was worth.
It must not be supposed for a minute
that there were not many matrons who
were ready to declare that Al was go
ing at too swift a pace, although not
one of them was found ready to tell
her daughter that it were wise that a
hint be thrown out to young Harlow
that American beauty roses in Decem
ber were too costly a gift to be sent to
one young woman twice a week. There
was only one of Al's set. and she was
only in the set on occasion for the
other girls declared her rather prim
and finicky who had the courage born
of a conviction that Al was developing
spendthrift habits, to tell him frankly
one day that neither she nor her moth
er thought it right for him to send as
he did occasionally the expensive hot
house blossoms and the equally expen
sive bonbons.
Al took this in good part and way
down In his heart lie thought that Mary
jjohnson was saying just about the
right thing, and that the saying of it
was prompted by a delicate considera
tion for his own good, as well as by an
equally delicate understanding of the
propriety of tilings.
If Harlow did spend more than his
salary he stuck close to business in the
book establishment, and one day he
was promoted to a better position and
to more pay. an advancement that gave
him a very comfortable income. Al sat
down one night to figure it up. His
debts scared him. He thought to him
self that by rigid economy for a year
he could square up, but he was not of
the kind to settle down of his own free
will and accord to any economy, let
alone that of the rigid kind. All the
girls in the set knew of Al's advance
ment, and most of them thought of it
as meaning just so many more chrysan
themums and so many more chocolate
caramels. There were many of them,
too, it must be said, to whom tli!s ad
vancement gave to Al a new value. As
a matter of fact, the majority or them
began to set its cap for Al. It must not
be supposed, however, that a great bur
den of sense lay with the majority. It
could not bring itself to forego the
pleasures of the sweets of candv and
the scents of flowers simply because
one of its members hoped to lead the
spendthrift to the altar. "Let him
spend." said the girls. "When he does
get married he can save money, pay his
debts and become a model for the com
munity." Mary Johnson did not like it when Al
showed a tendency to keep on running
along the road which lias a big linger
post marked "Ruin" standing ail along
the way. There wasn't a grain of self
ishness In Mary Johnson's nature. She
liked the young fellow and she hated
to see him go the way that leads to a
great big precipice.
All the set. Al and a lot of other
young fellows Included, went to
Dives' Church. Most of the members
of St. Dives were so rich that they
could have each chipped In enough
without missing It to make unnecessary
the holding of a church fair for the
benefit of the poor of the outlying dis
tricts of the parish. They gave a church
fulr, however, and the young women
prepared to play, as sadly enough they
always do at church fairs, the parts of
harpies.
The girls held a meeting before the
fair and planned, a campaign. Each
one had a little book In which the vic
tims were to put down their names,
pay a quarter for the privilege and
thus secure one chance In 4.000 of win
ning a tidy or an Impossible whisk
broom holder. One of the girls said that
it should be a matter of conscience
with them all to make as much as they
could, and then she added: "Every girl
In this bunch must make Al Harlow
pay 50 cents a chance, because he'll do
it and never wink. It's In a good cause,
you know, and he's easy, and we must
get all we can. The other boys will
stand for quarters, but they are not in
the ensy class with Al."
In that meeting they laid plans that
If carried out would come pretty near
completing the financial undoing of Al
bert Harlow, book publishers' man
OF A STEW. !
Mary Johnson was there and she de
nounced the scheme as "a shame." The
other girls looked at each other as much
as to say "O, but isn't she artfulV"
The fair was on. Al Harlow had
bought tickets for all sorts of things and
lie paid three prices therefor. He had
paid $1 postage each on letters in the
postottice and had paid 50 cents each
foi a dozen attempts to hook -a penny
whistle from out the "fish pond." ,nv
it happened that Al had been obliged to
work late at the book shop and he hud
gone to the fair without having taken
as much as a bite of food. He was
young, active and healthy and he was
as hungry as a bear. After he had
parted with a large part of Ills finan
cial substance he said within the hear
ing half a dozen of the girls and some
what thoughtlessly: "I'd give $5 for
something to eut."
"You shall have it," they said in
chorus; "sit down."
They pushed him into a chair by n
table which was close to the door of
the fair kitchen. Al had seen his young
men friends eating for an hour past.
He knew that they hud paid only a dol
lar a head for their dinners and that
they were having each a substantial
meal. He hoped that his five dollars
would bring him something solid, yet
appetizing. The six girls to whom lt
hud imparted knowledge of his hunger
disappeared into the kitchen. There
they talked louder than they knew and
Al heard every word.
"We'll just give him the regulation
church fair oyster stew," said one
-1 h ':
THEY TAI.KKU LOIPKU THAN" TIIKV KNKW.
voice. "It'll be a good joke and lie's
too easy to say anything, and there'll
be just $4.!).". clear profit."
"Splendid," sang a chorus. Then Al
heard another voice. He recognized it
as that of Mary Johnson. It was a
voice softer and with a better modu
lation than any he had heard. Perhaps
it was what she said that made him
think tliis but he thought It neverthe
less. "That's not only a shame, girls."
said Mary, "but it's mean. Because Al
tries to be good-natured and does
tilings for us all is no reason why he
should be Imposed upon and made to go
hungry."
"Mary." said another voice, "vou are
always spoiling our fun."
Then there was silence. In a few
( minutes six young women escorted in
"aiery oyster stew and put it down
with not even so much as a cracker on
the side. It was indeed a regulation
church fair stew. It had one Oyster,
a miserable, attenuated, pale little
thing like all oysters that are sacrificed
for charity. Mary Johnson was not
among the onlookers as Al ate. When
he rose from the table he said: -Good
night." and left. Not all the Impor
tunities to buy a carnation for only $1
succeeded In holding him longer.
Two weeks later the young women
met in the parish house to make the
final accounting of the financial end of
the fair. They had made a lot of mon
ey. As Mary Johnson held out her
paper of accounts to the treasurer the
girls saw something on her hand and
with one accord they screamed: "Mary,
where" did you get it?"
On the engagement linger of Mary's
hand was a heavy gold circle holding
in a golden clasp a magnificent pearl.
Mary blushed a moment and then with
a glad look that betrayed something of
triumph, replied: "It's mv engage
ment ring. Al Harlow gave It to me
yesterday. The pearl Is a beauty. Is it
not? Partridge & Co.. to whom Al
showed it, appraised Its value at $2,000.
Al found the pearl In that plate of oys
ter stew, for which you charged him
$3." Chicago Kecord-IIerald.
Define I.
Little Elmer (who has an inquiring
mind) Papa, what Is conscience?
Professor Broadhead-Consclence, my
son, is the name usually given to' the
fear we feel that other people will find
us out Harper's Bazar.
To Select From.
She The angels sent me ma two twin
babies last night. -
He-Has she picked out the one she
wants yet? i
Some people aiways look disappointed.