Lincoln County leader., February 21, 1902, Image 8

LINCOLN' COUNTY LEADER.
CHA8. V. & ADA E. SOULK, Pubs.
TOLEDO OREGON.
'lue uuiveisity of Chicago continues
to be a strong favorite of the boss
Santa Claus.
When a man guesses he can knock
another uiun down he usually makes a
rough estimate.
If a quarrelsome man has two Ideas
In his head they would probably fall
out with each other.
Necessity is said to be the mother of
Invention but as to the father thereof
history Is painfully silent.
The biggest hold-ups are the fellows
who make a daylight Job of it, first
Laving stolen your confidence.
Eve complained that she had nothing
to wear and her daughters have been
working the same old plaint ever since.
A dispatch says that Helen Gould is
annoyed by a crank who keeps send
ing her great bunches of American
Beauty roses. Isn't It awful?
It has been said that King Edward
looks perfectly at home In whatever -he
wears. This is a glad assurance that
his crown will be quite becoming.
At a sale of relics of Edwin Booth in
New York two letters to the actor
from a woman who asked for "but one
glance of your eye" bmught good
prices. Perhaps her husband was there
when the bl.uliug started.
Reporting n shortage of over $3,000,
000, the great Buffalo exposition can
not be said to "pan out well" financial
ly. But the loss is distributed among
so many stockholders, and the benefits
of the fair have been so far-reaching,
that "failure" Is the last word to couple
with it.
"So long as there Is wood to saw In
the world, I need no gymnasium," re
marked a cynic, listening to a discus
sion as to where exercise was neces
sary for grown men. In the same spine
one might conclude that so long as
there are intellectual problems to
tackle, one needs no game of skill.
Doubtless the realities should have
precedence.
A Boston physician, who recently
treated a street car conductor for an In
fectious disease contracted by holding
paper money in his mouth while mak
ing change, warns people against this
habit and the practice of wetting the
lingers lu the mouth while counting
money, lie remarks upon the swift
ness and certainty with which paper
handled by Infected persons may trans
mit disease. "It Is a matter of common
experience," he says, "that the bank
LIU passes more rapidly out of one's
possession that any other known arti
cle." Even those who scoff at sanitary
precautious must admit that this is
sadly, painfully true.
Hitherto It has been possible for the
world-weary person to escape from the
sight and sound of busy mankind by
boarding a ship for anywhere. He
could for six days or six months, ac
cording to his destination and his ship,
be entirely free from all knowledge of
the facts and rumors which trouble
the ear ashore. Mr. Marconi has chang
ed all that. Under the wireless sys
tem it Is impossible to get beyond the
reach of the daily Interests of mauklud.
Eventually, perhaps, no ship will leave
port without an apparatus for receiv
ing Wall street quotations and bulle
tins of the events in every part of the
world. Nothing will be left for the vic
tim of nervous exhaustion but to enter
a cave until some pestilent scientist
shall discover an X-ray which will car
ry sound through opaque substances.
The dean of the women's department
of one of our great universities de
clares that she no longer anticipates
dilllcultles, hut the unexpected helps
which will remove dilllcultles. Timid
by nature, she used to say that she
could never survive the shock of Hud
lug a burglar lu her room. One night
recently she awoke, cousclous that
some one was fumbling at her desk.
The room was quite dark; the clock
truck one. She lay there considering
what to do, not at all frightened, but
very Indignant at being robbed. Many
minutes passed; the burglar still moved
stealthily about. Meanwhile the dean
had formulated a plan. Calling her
youthful veiitrlloqulstlc skill Into ser
vice, she said lu a deep voice, seeming
ly at the burglar's elbow, "Bodle, light
the gas." Iter maid In the next room,
thus called by her last name, shot out
of bed and the burglar shot out of the
'window. Investigation proved that
the man's search ha 1 not yet reached
tho drawer containing the valuables.
"He robbed me only of what I could
well spare." the dean laughed "my
fears."
Those who are wont to shake their
heads over the extravagances of this
age give an extra shake wheu they
contemplate the amount of Ingenuity
that goes to the making of and the
amount of money that goes to the pur
chase of modern toys. There is hardly
any article that grown up people use,
either in the way of work or play, that
is not reproduced in the toy world. The
luxuries of the ballroom, the utilities of
the kitchen, and wardrobes of the
wealthy are all to be had in miniature,
and to visit a playroom is to see our
selves as the toymaker sees us. The
child of three decades ago was content
with a hairless rocking horse and a
Noah's ark in which the goats were
scarcely to be distinguished from the
lambs; but now -the modern boy de
mands that the horse shall have hair
and a gait of its own, and that the
maker of toy arks shall vie with na
ture in the creation of animals. As
for dolls, when one remembers the
creature of rags and tags which first
Issued out of that doll chaos, the fam
ily rag bag, and compares her with
the finished wax maiden of to-day, who
lacks nothing but a soul, and does not
differ in this respect from human pro
totypes, one is convinced that this Is
Indeed a world of progress. Of course
dissolution arrives to the Inhabitants
of toyland more quickly than It does
to those who live In the real world, and
It Is a question whether It is worth
while spending much money on what is
destined to be so speedily destroyed.
But, judging from the growing variety
of toys and the Increasing number of
buyers, this question seems to be an
swered In the affirmative.
Much Iw bciiig bald tiico uiiy G
"manifest destiny." One authority on
destiny is seldom heard now-adays.
Josh Billings Is in his grave but in his
time he had something to say about
this matter, as note the folio wing: "Man
ifest destiny is the science ov going tew
bust, or enny other place, before yu
git thare. I may be rong in this centi
ment, but that iz the way It strikes me.
The tru way that mauifess destiny had
better be sot down Iz, the exact dis
tance that a frog kan jump down hill
with a striped snake after him. I don't
kno but I may be rong onst more; but,
If the frog don't git ketched, the des
tiny lz just what he Iz looking for.
When a man falls Into the bottom ov
a well, and makes up hiz mind tew
stay thare, that ain't manifess destiny
enny more than having yure hair cut
short iz; but, if he almost gits out,
and then falls down agin sizteen foot
deeper, and brakes off his neck twice
In the same plase, and dies and iz
burled thare at low water, that Iz man
ifess destiny on the square. Ml dear
reader, don't beleave In manifess des
tiny until you see it. Thare Is such a
thing as manifess destiny; but when It
occurs it Iz like the number ov rings
on the rakoon's tale ov no great con
sequence onla for ornament. Man
w'an't made for a machine; if he waz,
It waz n locomotlff machine, and mani
fess destiny must git oph from the trak
when the bell rings, or glt knocked
higher than the price ov gold. Manifess
destiny lz a dlsseaze, but It iz easy tew
heal; 1 have seen It In Its wust tages
cured bl sawing a cord ov drl hickory
wood."
POOR HEN WORKED OVERTIME.
nut All Her Efforts to Hatch the Ejckb
Were in Vain.
A group of suburbanites congregated
In the reading terminal, awaiting the
opening of the train gate, a few days
ago, were indulging In small talk, when
a remark made by one of them caused
a fellow-suburbanite to say:
"That Just reminds me. Speaking
of jokes, I think I am as good-natured
as any one when I get caught, but a
little more than a month ago some of
the men at the otiice played one on me
that gives me Just cause for exaspera
tion, especially as I discovered only last
week that the Jokers had me for their
victim.
"One of my hens had gone 'broody'
and a chicken fancier whom I knew
well presented me with thirteen eggs
from one of his prize hens, all done up
neatly In a box. At lunch time while I
was out the deed was perpetrated. In
nocently I gave those eggs to my boy,
with special instructions for setting the
hen. That fowl worked faithfully with
those eggs, even putting in overtime on
some days. Finally when the three
weeks were up she began to grow Im
patient and would cluck about that nest
In a most disturbed fashion, eying the
eggs suspiciously. She would, however,
get on the nest again and patiently
await results.
"Several days ago I went to the hen
house to Investigate," continued the
suburbanite, according to the Phila
delphia Record, "and a more bewilder
ed fowl than that hen was I never did
see. She had as a last resort, and prob
ably In anger, pecked every one of
those thirteen eggs. The whole lot had
been hard-boiled by my fresh olllce as
sociates, which fact Immediately made
clear to me why they were all so much
Interested In that particular hatching."
First Htreot lUilwur.
Tho first street railroad was laid In
New York In 1S.TJ, between the City
Hall and 14th street.
Some people can absorb Just so mucli
Information, and, after they havt
reached their limit, never learu anything.
IEW AIRSHIP FOR WHICH
GREAT PROMISES ARE MADE.
A model of a new dirigible airship was recently on exhibition In Chicago. It
represents the results of five years' work on the part of William Reiferscheid of
Streator, 111. The model shows a contrivance consisting of two major parts, a
cigar-shaped balloon, to which is attached a frame, on which are six propellers.
Four propellers are used for ascending and two for steering. The power is sup
plied by a gasoline engine.
The owner of the machine claims it will do many evolutions unknown to the
flying machine of Santos-Dumont. The Streator inventor declares his Eagle,
for that is what he calls it, could be driven from Chicago to New York at the
rate of 100 miles an hour, and that it could be sailed around a tower with its
side touching the structure at all times. He also contends that the Eagle could
be turned around all day in the same spot in the air. It is planned to construct
a machine at an expense of ?10,000.
AWFUL BOER MORTALITY.
British Reconcentrodo Camps in South
Africa to Be Abolished.
The horrors of the British reconcen
trado camps In South Africa are to be
abated. The appalling mortality that
has marked these camps from the be
ginning has at length aroused the Gov
ernment to action and the system un
der which thousand of Boer women
and children have perished unnecessa
rily is to be changed.
The reconcentrado policy of England
In South Africa will be one of the dark
est chapters connected with the Boer
war. Even Secretary Broderick, under
whom they were Instituted and main
tained, does not defend them. The
death rate in them has been awful. In
six months 13,941 persons perished In
them. During one month 3,150 deaths
of whites are recorded, and of the vic
tims 2,033 were children. The death
rate for six months approximates 253
per 1,000; and If children alone be re
garded the death rate will exceed 400
per 1,000.
To an English lady, Miss Ilobhouse,
the modification of the system under
which so many unfortunate Boer wom
en and children perished Is due. This
lady, who comes of, a good English
family and whose Interests in the Boer
reconcentrados is merely a feeling of
pure humanity, visited South Africa
last spring and sought to ameliorate
their condition. She appealed to the
Government to act and it did. It ex
pelled her from South Africa. On her
return home Miss Ilobhouse again ap
pealed to the Government to Interpose
and end the system under which Boer
prisoners, or pensioners, were being Ju
dicially murdered. Nothing came of
her appeals. She then published the
facts she had collected In South Africa
and the result has been an awakening
of the British conscience. The Govern
ment felt constrained to take notice of
the opinions and feelings created by
the publication of her pamphlet and
the order was given for a change In the
concentration system.
ALPHABET ON A PINHEAD.
Wonderful Achievement of a Unit I more
Kn (trover Kxcltca Surprise.
II. A. Houseal, an engraver employed
by George Walter, Jeweler, has accom
plished a task in the engraver's art
witch eclipses the engraving of the
lord's prayer upon a silver dollar,
which was supposed for a long time to
be the triumph of fine work lu engrav
ing. Ho has managed to engrave the
alphabet complete on the head of a
common pin. Mr. Houseal, who rarely
uses a glass In his work, can read the
letters with tho naked eye, and al
though there are few persons whose
eyesight Is so strong, a common mag
nifying glass serves to make them easi
ly distinguishable. The letters range
MISS HOBHOU8E.
from left to right and are all capitals.
In the first circle around the edge of
the head of the pin are the letters from
A to M, Inclusive. Within this is a
second circle beginning at N and end
ing at Z, and directly in the center is
the &c mark. The diameter of the pin
head is barely a sixteenth of an inch,
and it can be understood how small the
letters must be. They are about one
fourth the size of the letters in the
Lord's prayer engraved on a dollar.
The work occupied about an hour and a
half, Mr. Houseal occasionally leaving
It to attend to customers In the store.
It was done with an ordinary engrav
er's tool.
"I had heard of some man who had
done this," said Mr. Houseal In explain
ing his design, "but I did not believe it
could be done, and determined to try
myself. I first rubbed the head of the
pin on an oil stone to obtain a flat sur
face. Then I heated the cement on
the disk which we use for holding such
small articles. When the cement cool
ed I screwed the disk tightly to the
stand. The most difficult part of the
matter to me was lu keeping track of
the pin. I used n four-inch lens on the
job, but I am not accustomed to using
a glass of any sort, and frequt-ttJ- I'd
lose the pin and go digging arounu tilie
a man In the dark. But I managed to
keep pretty well on its track."
The regularity of the letters as they
ore seen under the glass testifies to
this. Mr. Houseal says he will keep
the pin as a curiosity. Mr. Houseal Is
25 years of age. Baltimore American.
The Groom "Was Forehanded.
Ministers have many Interesting and
imuslng experiences.
A local clergyman was engaged In
conversation with a number of friends
the other day, when each started tell
ing stories of weddings he had per
formed. One of the party had this to
offer:
Some time ago a great big fellow,
roughly dressed, and a wee mite of a
young woman came to him. They had
no witnesses, and, in fact, did not care
to have any. Nevertheless, a brides
maid and groomsman were selected
from the household, and the ceremony
began. They had promised to love and
obey and all the rest of the service,
when the preacher announced: "Kiss
the bride."
The groom, on bended knee, hesitated
a little, tried to say something and
couldn't.
"Kiss the bride," said the pastor.
"Why, porson, I did, afore I came
here at all," replied the groom, whoso
face had taken the color of a June rose.
The witnesses burst forth In laughter,
while the minister bud all he could do
to retain the serious expression which
he nlways wore when wedding people.
Duluth News-Tribune.
Diplomacy of the President.
The velvety-voiced politicians who go
to the White House get some Jolts from
President Roosevelt When the execu
tive meets the callers In the morning
he has them rounded up In the reception-room,
and sometimes there are a
score In the room at once. Mr. Roose
velt bustles In and ropes at the first
shorthorn he sees, finishes with him lu
short order and goes down the line in
the same brisk manner. No confidences
are exchanged. The sly politician
grasps the President by the lapel, puts
his lips close to the executive ear nnd
whispers his little tale. The President
replies in a voice audible throughout
the room, gives the whole snap away,
not only revealing the object of the vis
itor's call but disclosing his action. In
the case of a "turn-down" this Is very
painful. Washington Star.
Warning to professional visitors:
When a woman discovers a bedbug she
traces It to the last guest who slept at
her house.
A MODERN VAN DER DEC KEN.
Curious Tale of the Flying Italian,
Anita S.
A Nantes correspondent relates a eu
rious story regarding the wanderings
of the Italian brig Anita S. and her
adventurlous skipper, Capt. Rosa.
The Anita S. left Martinique en June
6, 1900, with a cargo of sugar con
signed to a house in Nantes, Ittrt en
route the captain borrowed at every
port at which he touched sums ef mon
ey, giving as security his ship and
cargo
When he could raise no more and his
store ran short, in order to avoid be
ing arrested In port he hailed passing
merchant vessels and fishing boats and
bought provisions.
In this way he kept to the high seas
until Sept. 8, 1900, when, after a suc
cession of terrible storms, be was
forced to put into Santa Crna, Tener
lffe. He escaped detection and re
mained there lu security until May 11
of the next year, when, after contract
ing a new loan of 3,200, Capt Rosa,
of the good ship Anita S., still carrying
her cargo of sugar, resumed her erring
pilgrimage.
For four months he remained at sea,
and during that time the firm at
Nantes, to whom the sugar was con
signed, continued to receive reports
that the brig was cruising on the coast
of England.
But Capt. Rosa's resources gave out
at last, and, finding that he could raise
no more money and tired of being con
tinually at sea, he returned to Teneriffe
in September pnd wns prrefsted
During his wanderings, says the Lon
don Mail, the Italian skipper had suc
ceeded In borrowing ,5,000. white the
Anita S. is not worth 000. The cargo
of sugar which left Martinique seven
teen months ago was transshipped and
reached Nantes in an almost worthless
condition.
CIVIL WAR RELIC.
Unique King Found in a Field Near
Shelbyville, Tenn.
The illustration shows the design on
a ring found In field eight or ten miles
from Shelbyville, Tenn., being unearth
ed from a slight depth below the sur
face. During the Civil War soldiers
were encamped In this neighborhood,
but the nearest fighting was about
twenty-five miles away, at Stone's
River. The ring was evidently lost by
CIVIL WAK RELIC.
H? Pt the encamped soldiers. Within
the ring appears Mie followlng legend,
engraved in script: "One of Nineteen,
July 4, 1858." From this legend and
from the Intaglio forming the setting of
the ring it is evident that the ring be
longed to a graduate of the Virginia
Military Institute, of the year 1858.
This institute is located at Ivexlngton,
Va.. and is known as the "West Point
of the South," and undoubtedly has a
record of the nineteen graduates of the
year 1858. The ring is in a tine state of
preservation.
ODD SUMMER HOUSE
NOW IN WASHINGTON.
A unique "summer house" Is to be
seen in Washington on the grounds of
the United States Agricultural Depart
ment. It Is form
ed of the hollow
trunk of one of
the great redwood
trees of California,
and is big enough
to shelter a largo
family. The read
er is not n.lvlsed
to write for a eou
ple of these sum
mer houses, sim
ple ns they are,
unless he has more money at his com
mand than he knows what to do with.
The great trees of California are com
paratively few. and It is becoming to
be looked upou as a sin to cut one of
them.
Holding for a Rise.
Ex-Congressman Cable of Illinois has
a charming young daughter who is re
ceiving her education In France. When
she was several years younger than she
Is now her father took her on his knee
one day and said to her:
"To-day a man asked me If I would
not sell little brother. He said he would
give nie a whole room full of gold. Shall
I let him have little brother?"
The child shook her head.
"But," persisted her father, "think
how much money this room full of gold
would be. Think how many things you
could buy with It. Don't you think I'd
better let the man have little brother?"
"No," said the daughter, "let's keep
hi in till he's older. He'll be worth more
then." New York Times.
A Literal Interpretation.
Edna He's a man after my own
heart
May-Well, I must say I don't think
It's very becoming for a girl to brag
alout her followers." Philadelphia
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