LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER, CHAB. F. ADA E. 80ULE, Fab. TOLEDO . . .OREGON. A woman does nod begin to com mand until she bag promised to obey. I guess mine will be a real pannmn. It is to cost about $40,0)0,000. Uncle Sam. -!'. ' .?.," ...... Measure a man by his every-dny con duct rather than by his extraordinary exertions. . : i Hands up. How many of you know what they are fighting about down in Venezuela?. ' ' - ' Men are continually going up against schemes that look like more money and less work. , The man who isn't being fooled by anybody else generally puts in a good ueal or time deceiving himself. The new King of Saxony is 70 years old. There seems to be one place left where the boys aren't getting all the good Jobs. From the eagerness with which Boers and British are falling on each other's necks, It is evident that "--UJs gratetul lor lue ueip giveu i,u X lv other go. Uoekef oiler's recent investment of a large sum of money In a bicycle fac tory may be taken us an Indication thut he begs leave to differ uud is will ing to back It up. An exchange says that a, person's chances of being struck by lightning are very slender. The use of the prep osition "after" In place of "of" is sug gested as an Improvement In that state ment. An ensteru physician says that mem bers of his profession cnu be bribed and that "they, will do a lot for money." Here Is a man who knows he has his price and does nut wish to be Bullish about It. The Sultan suys Turkey bus books enough, for which-reason he will not permit the publication of any more In that country. It will now bo ueces Hary for the Turkish poets to become captains of Inuustry. Emperor William says that when a German can look into the eyes of the empress he ought' to have Inspiration enough to hist htm a lifetime. How nice it must be for'her if the emperor talks like that when company Is not present. ' Whenever the courts "f this country shall administer Justice with the same proniptneHHWtnlnty, fearlessness and with us little regard for pel-sunn as Is the case in the courts of Kuglund, alter which ours were patterned, lynching will cease in' the United States, but until thou It will be a standing re proach to the people and their luaehln 0 ery of Justice. A Wilmington, Del., belle Is "the most talked u bunt woman of that city," because she ro.ie astride at the horse show. Woman Indeed ruuiulus In bar baric bondage so long as she cannot do a seuslble thing without belug render ed conspicuous. . Health, safety and good form all demand the abolishment of tlie awkward and antiiiuated side saddle. If ri ling Is to increase Willi the release of the horse from rurrluge service, woineu everywhere ought to revolt against the barbaric prejudice which deprives them of the best en joyment and best beuellts of this no blest of exercises. It Is not shade alone that makes It cooler under a tree In summer. The coolness of the tree Itself helps, for Its temperature Is about 45 degrees Fall rcuhclt, at nil times, us that of the hu man body is n fractU); more than US degrees. So 0 clump of trees cools the air us a piece of Ice cools the water In a pitcher. That Is why the Lcglslu tore has authorized the park authori ties of Xew York City to plaut trees In the tenement districts. If the air can be made cooler uud purer by the trees' fewer children will die of heat ailments. As 4,000 more children die lu New York during June, July, August and September than In any other sim ilar period In the year, the Importance of adopting every known means to save life Is uudiNpulcd. Kvery towu occasionally put on a play for the edltlcutlon of the public which Is not announced on the bill boards. A village In New York renders the following performance lu which the Baptist preacher and a Jealous young man play leading Mies: The play opens at the church picnic. The min ister, an unmarried man. Is the vogue. Moreover, he Is susceptible. Captured ml cornered by the church orgaulst, lie discourses all the day long of love's young dream. And now the villain up pears. The organist's stendy company hows up. He behaves rudely an. I his wrath 1 as the wrath of Achilles. The next act. Is brief but '.regie. It Is on the following Sunday; The Jealout lover lays for the preacher and wallop "the ecclesiastic sorely. Then cocies the curtain raiser in the police court with the villain In the dock. The populace rent Into opposing' factions according to creed, fill and overflow the right and left wings of the stage. Here the tens graph Instrument stopped. But u if easy to guess the sequel. Questioned by the Judge, the prisoner glares at tin minister and the organist and lowering! his voice to the floor, huskily exclaims. "Not guilty!" Pursued by the inex orable law he goes to the. calaboosi rather than pay his fine while the min ister and the organist marry and live happily ever after. The only default of the entire entertainment Is to b found In the failure of the preacher tc flail the Jealous young son of Bella' who attacked hliu. Sir Wilfrid Laurier Just prior to his recent departure to Europe spoke ol the Alaskan boundary question as a se rious danger to British and American relations and a "menace of open con flict." It need not become a menace, however, unless the British government seeks to muke It such. It Is Great Brit ain, not the United Stntes, which in this Instance Is seeking to alter boundary lines. Briefly stated, the British con tention is that the boundary of south eustern Alaska, Instead of following a line tpn marine Ifii iik. ithlrtv-tnnr iM one-half statute utiles) from the coast line proper, leaps from headland to headland at a distance of ten leagues from the outlining capes and promon tories. Such a line would bring the British boundary much nearer the Pa cific and would give Great Britain con trol of Important estuaries and flordi leading to the sea. This claim, which was never ndvauced until 181)8, Is not supported either by the original trea ties, by the maps and charts of cartog raphers or by any argument recogniza ble to reason. The United States pos sessions In 'this territory nre precisely what the Itusslau possessions were prior to their purchase and the mean ing of the original treaty negotiated between ltussin and Great Britain lu 1825 Is uumistukabfe. It must be pat ent to the State Department that there can be no yielding of American rights on this point. The boundary question. It is said Is about to be brought up again for final negotiations. Whatever may be required to secure a common survey of the boundary and a friendly demarcation of the line with scientific accuracy should be done; but from the essential point ut Issue there can be no recession. The evidence lu support of the American claim Is overwhelming. The great value of salt us an nntl- septlc and the fact that nature appears 10 nave made It an essential Ingredient In the food of nearly nil animals k made the medical profession very hos- iiinnie toward new theories or discov eries regarding Its therapeutlo quail les. The doctors In fact nre never mi. prepared for the announcement of some extraordinary cure effected by me use or tnm widely distributed coin pound. That pneumonia cn II Im piipmI by pumping an 8 per cent sodium cuiorme solution at temperatures rang ing from l-jo to i:w di 'itrees Fiihi-piihoit luto the lungs, however, naturally tax es me creuunty or most physicians. This achievement was announced by Dr. W. Byron Coakley, of Chicago, In a paper rend by him before the Amer ican Medical Association at the reeeui convention at Saratoga. That such a saline solution would bo death to all bacteria ami would also- have an anti septic effect upon diseased tissue will lie reailily conceded. It Is n nn.tim, of getting the solution Into the lungs hi sucu a way that the patient could stnnd the treatment. Dr. rnnti..,. claims to hare solved tills problem by me use or an instrument Invented by himself, which Introduces the .lni,.n Into the lungs through punctures made i. a tine gold needle. After the salt solution destroys the bacteria and cools to the temperature of the body It Is claimed that It Is absorbed lu the blood and docs not clog up the lungs. lu doing this It protects the red corpuscles against destruction by the poisons of pneumonia. Physicians nre naturally skeptical regarding the effectiveness of this treatment, for the reason tint in the attempts tftot have been made to wusn out the lungs with salt solutions the patients linve been iiiihIiI t t,.,,.i it. The demonstrations before the as sociation at Saratoga, however, are claimed to have shown the Coakley method to be a success. If future tests should more firmly establish the effect iveness ami practicability of his treat ment Dr. Coakley will have scored great advance In medical science and will have conferred a great boon upon humanity. . New Hraml. "Say," called the hardware drummer to the proprietor of the railway restau rant, "there. la something "wrong with this sandwich." "Oh, I guess yes," said the traveler. "Why, the blamed thing Is so soft I ran actually bite a piece out of It without breaking my teeth." No man ever realizes how much t-ush he owus uutll he moves. FORTUNES OF THIS DECADE. B" Chauncer H. Depew. Nothing more marks this decade from others than the sudden accumu lation or fabulous fortunes. When I graduated from Yale there were only two multi millionaires In' the United States, John Jacob Astor and Commodore Vau- SENATOR DEPEW. derbilt. Neither of thciu at that period had reached the $10,000,000 limit. There were not in the whole country twenty people worth a million dollars. To-day there are more than one hundred In Pitts burg ulone who have passed that figure. These vast fortunes, themselves so con spicuous, so almost Incomprehensible, are at present more matters of 'curiosity than of antagonism. Most of the possessors of them have shown a wise generosity in the distribution ot their wealth. In no other couutry in the world, at no other tieriod. have the' rich from their abun dance give! so lavishly to education, phi lanthropy and patriotism. Last year the kuunu .uiua u.u ncv tuus cuiititutt:u amounted to the high figure of $107,300,- 000. The sudden acquisition of almost ' in calculable riches by so many in the last five years has produced many singular results. The most ghastly misfortune which can happen to a man who has been successfully prosecuting and increasing his business until he has passed middle life is to be compelled to sell out and re tire. He may receive a sum fur beyond any value he ever placed upon his plant and good will. Nevertheless, the sale is generally accompanied by an obligation not to resume and compete. Little out side the factory or office interests him because the cells of his brain have be come, some of them, abnormally active, and cithers paralyzed through disuse. He can think of nothing and he cares for nothing but the shop and its results. Hooks, literature, lectures, travel, politics. society, and play bore the life out of him I kuow half a hundred such men who have come to this condition within the last few years. WOMAN'S DUTY TO SOCIETY. By Mrs. Donald H'Lcan. The first duty of a woman to society is to make herself agree able to those whom she does tot consider to be in society. , It is easy enough to bo agree able to one's friends. The- test of breeding, of course, conies in one's attitude to one's inferiors and one's enemies two classes which a woman, in considering her duty to society, Is very likely in her own mind to exile from so ciety. On the contrary, they are verjj im portant members of it. She ought to know this because they occupy so many of her thoughts. An attempt to be agreeable usually takes a very obvious form that of flat tery. Flattery is exceedingly bad form. Flattery is the spurious coin, the gold coin is simple graeiousuess. A cardinal principle of being agreeable is to be gra cious. Uraciousness includes- a negative talent the talent of snubbing nobody. . The bane of social intercourse is raub bing. Snubbing is adopted presumably to emphasize one's superiority to the per son snubbed. On its face it defeats its WAS A ROSY-CHEEKED GIRL ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. This Is a picture of Mrs. David B. Stamp, of Flnchvllle, Orange County, N. Y. She Is a little, old, almost for gotten woman, living In a little, old, almost forgotten town. You would senrcely believe to see her that she was an old woman as long ago as the outbreak of tin Civil War; you would scarcely believe that one hundred years ago she was a plump, red-cheeked girl playlti' on the shores of the blue Hudson, and the prettiest girl, at that, for many mile In all directions. But that Is exactly what she did do and what she was, and now as she sits among the gathering shadows of life's twilight, waiting for the night to fall, she can look backward across tho cen tury and say that the world with nil Its teeming millions has been born ngaln since that far distant time when she was a little girl at piny. Mrs. Stamp was born on the shores of the Hudson oue hundred and eight years ago. She spent her girlhood there and saw the trial trip of Robert i ulton's tlrst steamboat. She remem bers when the country rang with the praises of General Washington. She remembers the day he died. She re ireuiher the Marquis de Ijifayette, Andrew Jackson, the war of 1812. and I recalls most of the principal events -St! MRS. DAVID R. STAMP. own end. For the woman who wishes to be agreeable to society naturally wishes to make society believe in her. But when she snubs any one whom she considers beneath her she is giving om ple proof that either she or her ancestors have not been used to the grade of society in which she finds herself; and that she is, therefore, not whit she would have others believe. The woman who has a right to the so cial position she occupies, and whose fam ily for generations has been in the snine position, will find it necessary to snub no one neither those whom she meets socially and whom she does not consider her social equals, nor those in other walks of life with whom she is brought into pn,ll wnlfli Gruclousness to- her friends and to rer servants, to her acquaintances and to her sewing woman, to her children and to every one asking a favor of her, to those who are gentlewomen and to those who are not that is the first rule of conduct for one who fulfills her duty to society by being agreeable. The duty of mnking one's self agree able to society means simply a woman's duty to let her best Impulses rule her ull the time. So this becomes a rule for gen eral conduct as well as for social inter course. HOW TO CURB TRUSTS. By James J. Mill. The commercial expansion of a na tion is the best in dex of its growth. Next to the Chris tian religion and the common schools no other siugle work enters into the welfare and happiness ot the t. J. HILL. people of the whole country to the same extent as the railway. Great Britain has retained possession of the oriental trade for the rcasoft that she furnishes the lowest rates of transportation to uud from those countries. We are now pre paring to challenge ber for such share of this business as can be furnished b.v the manufacturers of the United States. In a country as large as ours, carrying on enormous undertakings, large amounts of capital are necessary, and this capital can be more readily furnished by eorpo rate ownership than in any other way. The only serious objection to to-called trusts bus been the method of creating them for the purpose of selling sheaves of printed securities which represent nothing more than good will and pros pective profits to the promoters. - If It Is the desire of the government to prevent the growth of such corporations, it has always seemed to me that a sim ple remedy was within its reach. Under the constitutional provision' allowing Congress to regulate commerce between States all companies desiring-to transact business outside of the State In which LOADING WHEAT Behold the electric stevedore! It suftereth not from fatigue and It qulttctn not even at the lunch hour, and yet It loads wheat upon a vessel in a style far beyond the possibilities of human bands Just watch It, if you plesse. The sacks of grain come aboard by a sort of trolley and are dumped Into the hold at the rate of one every two seconds. It Is. la fact, the latest achievement of electricity as applied for power purposes. The picture is from the Yesr Book of the Depart tuent of Agriculture. that have taken place In her lifetime. Mrs. Stamp spends most of her time t her spinning wheel, which, like her self, belongs to an almost forgotten time. Every garment that she wears, as well as nearly every piece of fabric In her humble home. Is homespun goods, the work of her own hands. Iloneat Tenant. Tho father of Earl KiUwIlllam, who died recently, was an excellent land lord. A London paper refutes bow once a farmer went to him with the complaint that the Earl's fos hunters had ruined a field of corn, or. as wt should call It, wheat The Earl gave the man fifty pounds In payment for damage. After ha nest 1 ' EDGalJCJ they are incorporated should be held t a uniform provision of federal laws. They should satisfy a commission that thei capital stock was actually paid - up if. cash or in property, at a fair valuation just as the capital of the national bantf is certified to be paid up. With that sim ple law the temptatlou to make corapairie for the purpose of selling prospective profits would be at an end. At the same time no legitimate business would suffer.. AMERICAN FARMERS FOR HAWAII. ByRobt. W. Wilcox, ot Urn wall. I am deeply interested in the bill providing for the division of government lands into home steads for the farmers and mid dle clusses, because at. present we only hove in Hawaii the very rich and the very poor the poor being the laborers or coolies. Gut of the population of 100,000,- near ly 90,000 nre Asiatic, U0.OO0 being' Jap anese and 30,000 Chinese. There are also several thousand Porto Ricans, but they are undesirable, as they would rather lie in jail' all of the time than go to work. The land area of Hawaii is" 4,000,000 acres. Of this area 2,000,000 acres are in the hands of seventy men engaged In sugar raising and cattle ranging.- The otuer ;4,uuu,uut acres, -.which constitute the government lands, are rented and leased to the sugar corporations, the leases ranging from five to sixteen years. These government lauds I want divided, up Into homesteads' to encourage Ameri can farmers to go to Hawaii. Instead ot dividing the government lands into home steads of 100 acres, as In the United States, the best Inncln could he divided into twenty-acre homesteads and the pas toral lands into eighty-acre homesteads, either of which would give the American farmer a fine homestead to support his family all the year round. To give an Idea of how fertile the best land is, the sugar corporations produce an average of ten tons of sugar to the acre. The rice pluuters produce two crops a year, aggregating between 5,000 and 6,000 pounds to the acre. The same land planted with taro, a plant akin to elephant's ears, which is the staple food of the natives, will, produce somewhere between 40,000 aud 50,000 pounds per acre, and it sells at obe cent a pound. . - MILITARISM VS. COMMERCIALISM. By W. Bourke Cockran. This nation has been a world power a world power cif sur passing value to the civilization of the world. It has assumed the primacy of civilization be en use from the verv hour of its birth it has been devoted r.n- swerviugly to justice. I believe that this country is commercial, that this is a com- , mercial age, that commercialism is pre dominant; hut far from regretting, I glory In it. The object of every war that was- ever wageu, at least in me oiu worm,- wu plunder that is to say, profit. Vanquish ed countries are despoiled morje schmtiB-' cally, but more successfully, by tribute. Militarism is the pursuit of profit by plun-' der; commercialism is file pursuit of profit by industry. No fortune, however great, but was produced by peaceful pur suits. America has given a shining les son to all the world for the benefit' of all ages, it nas taugnt tnac, ine painway to advantage Is through honesty and jus tice and not through violence and plun der. - BY ELECTRICITY. time the farmer returned the money. Baying that the wheat had turned out well, after all. Earl Fltxwllllnni drew a check for one hundred pounds and gave It to hi tenant. "This Is as things should be between man and mali," said he. "When your eldest son comes of age, give htm this, and tell bltn how and why you got It" Somebody ought to protest In vigor ous fashion against the foolish habit of pounding tin pans around a man's house when be gets married. Some men have a good time fishing, even If they do not catch any fish, whin a ususlly the esse.