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.