Lincoln County leader., May 29, 1903, Image 2

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UNGOLH GOUHTt LEADER.
CHAR. T. ADA X. SOVX.S, .
TOLEDO OREGON.
Never look a gift horse In the mouth
by feeling for his spavins.
All the world's a stage and the men
generally gobble up the speaking parts.
of a committee to put the ben on Tab
by's neck was proposed. , That ended
the scheme.
"Let us consult nature," exhorts a
contributor to an agricultural paper.
"The apple likes a dry atmosphere, the
air Is continually circulating about It,
and it grows in the light It Is not
so with the potato; but apples and
potatoes are both stored In the cellar,
treated In the same way decidedly
against nature." Yet the "moral" of
this deliverance Is not, "Remove the
The friends we need are the ones j appies," but simply, "Ventilate your
that are never on hand when we want
them.
There are more daughters of revolu
tions in Venezuela than one can shake
a stick at.
The dnte of Thanksgiving should be
changed so as to fall on the day after
the adjournment of Congress.
A $2 postage stamp will soon be Is
sued. People who want to enjoy trav
eling can thus send the baby by mall.
cellars in winter as well as In sum
mer" and that sterling rule applies
equally well to the rest of the house.
Fresh air does no harm to those who
resemble potatoes, and It Is Indispen
sable to those who are more like apples.
General Funston Is all right to com
mand Alaska If he can be held back
from attempting to swim Bering strait.
A New York Jury has awarded tha
plaintiff In a libel suit six cents dam
ages Instead of the $50,000 for which
he sued. It was a plain case of libel.
The newspaper had. charged the de
fendant with the commission of a seri
ous crime and the charge was abso
lutely untrue. The newspaper did not
deny technical libel. But In the trial
It was shown that there had been no
The glass blowing machines are go
ing to cut the price of window glass.
Somebody ought to Invent a coal blow
ing machine.
. The London Times accuses the Amer
icans of being on a financial debauch.
Not guilty, your honor, so far as we,
personally, are concerned.
malicious motive In the publication.
It was contended that newspapers In a new writer is described as "blending
A woman's brain declines In weight
after she Is thirty years' of age, but
some o'.d widowers are the most light
headed people In the world.
A cauliflower trust has been formed
by Long Island cauliflower raisers.
The sauerkraut business Is still being
carried on in a haphazard way.
General Booth thinks we are a very
p'ous people simply because we do not
make fun of street preachers. Here Is
a case where piety and tolerance may
be sadly mixed.
Eight men fought a duel In France
Just to show how harmless the sport
Is. But did the world need this demon
slratlon? Has any person been seri
ously hurt in a French duel within
the memory of man?
meeting the public demand for their
exlstenc&rtnust depend upon press as
sociations, correspondents and report-
rs and cannot therefore stop to verify
every item. The publication of a dally
newspaper would be Impossible else.
was further shdwn that haste is
necessary and that In the rush of going
to press false statements are sure to
creep In. Editors and newspaper work
ers are fallible and liable to err. But,
It was argued It would be unjust and
unfair to hold publishers financially
responsible for occasional error of
statement, especially where disposition
Is manifest to correct such errors and
where there Is absolute absence of
malice or purpose to injure. The Jury
took this view. More and more are
courts and Juries demanding that abso
lute malice must be shown in order to
constitute libeL And why not? It la
the motive that Is the essence of all
violation of law. Why should excep
tion be made In the law of libel?
Over in Germany a man may kill
another In a duel If he Is willing to
serve five days In Jail. This Is a sick
ening hardship, but the emperor hopes
before long to tlx It so that the mur
derer can send his hat and coat to be
his proxy In serving the sentence.
The man who works hard all day
and goes home at night to be told that
he Is a poor stick and a failure be
cause somebody else gets a larger sal
ary than he, may keep right on saying
the old bachelor Isn't half a man, but
people don't always say what they
think.
Hie Sultan s expressed desire for
piace while- he buys more guns re
minds one of the story of the preacher
who had been called to another pul
pit at a higher salary. His small son,
when questioned as to whether his
father had reached a decision, replied
"Well, pa's praying for light, but ma's
packing up."
Civilization Is getting rich out of
what was wanted fifty years ago. Saw
dust, slabs, limbs of trees and odds
and ends of Southern forests are now
economized. Waste pine is being so
treated as to give thirty gallons of tur
pentine, besides tar and oils, to a cord
of llghtwood. Thus he wlu wants
most to spend mimt save most.
A rinlnfleld, New Jersey, boy of thlr
iren recently ran to the window to
see the express train go by. He saw
Instead the great engine crashing Into
the train standing on a side track, an
comprehended at once the meaning of
the terrible collision. Keinetnberln
that his father had tho only telephone
in the neighborhood, he rushed to it
and called up first the police and then
the tire department. He then Informed
the hospitals, one by one, of the catas
trophe, and telephoned to the doctors
asking mem to come nt once. Not
until then did the boy go outside to
Join the crowd which he had done so
much to make efficient
An "Inspired connnunlcatlon." nul
llshed by a Vienna newspaper, states
tnat It Is the Intention of Russia
France, Austria, Italy and England "to
reform Turkey from top to bottom and
transform her from an Asiatic to
European state." These are brav
words, but there Is good reason for the
belief that the reform policy will con
slst mainly of words and will fall short
in ilevils. lort twenty-five years slm
lar threats have been made, but the
lurk is still doing business at the old
stand In the same old wicked way. The
mice, so tho fable runs, onco held
meeting and decided to bell the est
Kesolutlons to this effect were adopted
unanimously. Then the appolutmeut
' Dr. Lyman Abbott is now at work
on a biography of Henry Ward Beech
er. Thin paper editions of standard
works, bound in limp leather, are
growing in favor with English pub
lishers. The Lothrop Publishing Company is
sues Irving Bacheller's third novel,
"Darrel of the Blessed Isles." It deals
with life in the north before the war.
S. It. Crockett's latest story, "Strong
Mac," is a tale of life on the moors of
Scotland, with a later shifting of
scene to Spain during the peninsula
war.
E. P. Dutton & Co. have Just pub
lished the new book on "Italy and the
Italians," by Edward Hutton, whose
"studies in the Lives of the Saints"
has already made favorable comment
The Scrlbners announce a novel by
Frances Powell entitled "The House
on the Hudson." This maiden work of
TRIALS OF THE ACCOMMODATING MAN
WHO HAS A TELEPHONE AT HIS FARMHOljf L
yiTY people whose neighbors use their telephones think they kn0;.
wlfh thorn nnv ilntr If vnn nrn nor nhHo-tnor in .
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iin tin, nminri-ir vim wmilil Iwttcr mnvA hark tn tnwn t tn .
u " v."- --j - - , to iuih la tL
we go through with In order to be obliging. We have the only telenvJ
In our vicinity; and my wife and I ought to draw salaries as rural !
sengers. 1
"The other day a call came to our telephone for some one In town til
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her sewing, don her sunbonnet and plod across the rough fields a thlm t
mile to tell Mrs. Jinks to come to the phone. When Mrs. Jinks eot nJ
she lumbered up to our house with a fat baby under each arm, and f,.J
ut that Rosy, a friend of hers in town, wanted her to come and bring J
OUi 10 npeuu me uujr.
" 'Naw,' bawled back Mrs. Jinks, 'ain't got no boss.'
"In a day or so another friend of the Jinks family telephoned out J
say that she and three children would spend Sunday with the Jlnkses Jf
tv""c "D luc'u my wire coil
not answer that the Jlnkses had no horse, as they had Just got one- on .1
promised to deliver the message. She gave the errand to the Jlnkses ovi
to me; I intended to attend to It, and forgot It The folks In town got rJ
and waited all day Sunday, but no Mr. Jinks appeared. About TuesJ
there was a great disturbance on the farm, Involving all the Jlnkawi J
brother and myself, and both of our wives. The message hadn't been J
neu, auu every uouy was 10 oiume.
"This Is only a sample," said the amateur farmer, according to
Detroit Free Press. "We have other neighbors near and far; but our h
Is the telephone ofHce of the district. People In town get mad at us iif
peopie m me country gei maa ai us; our lot is nam."
The Mississippi river Is one of Amer
ica's great problems. Upon levees and
bank protection alone the government
and the states have spent over $50,000,-
000, and the river of the floods is as
great as ever. From Missouri to Louis
iana men have been on guard day and
night to protect their homes, and In
one at least of the states It has been
necessary to release the convicts and
put them at work on the levees. It
Is the great drainage area of the Mis
sissippi combined with the character
of the soil through which It flows that
makes It so troublesome. There are
four large and well-defined drainage
systems, stretching from the Rockies
to the Alleghanles, that find their out
let through It. Any one of them can
flood the lower river at freshet time.
Two or three combined bring ruin. The
slit forever drifting down from the
mountains fills the bed of the stream,
and as the bed rises the levees must
rise with It. New high-water marks
are made, and the pressure of the
floods becomes greater and greater.
What shall be done for the river to
replace the hopeless levee system?
Forestry reserves In the mountains, Im
pounding dams at the headwaters,
great reservoirs In the St. Francis
basin in Missouri and Arkansas to hold
the overflow, all hove been suggested.
Efforts to develop a complete system of
control are, however, yet to come. It
has been truly said that the man who
masters the Mississippi will be one of
the great benefactors of his country.
On a recent Sunday nine persons, five
women and four men, committed sui
cide in Chicago. Neurly every one of
these went to self-destruction because
of hard financial conditions. They were
weary of the strenuous life, the women
helpless In life's struggle, the men pro
nounced failures In business. Start
ling, Is It not? But that Is only an In
cldent In the alarming Increase of self-
murder. According to the Chicago
1 rllnine, an authority on suicide statls
tics, the number of suicides during the
first two months of 1003 was double
that of the first two months of last
year. bat Is the cause? Some will
say It Is because of the lessening of
religious obligations or the loosening
of moral restraints. Others that it is
the nervous pace of modem living,
Others that there Is something wrong
In the economy of our life, that wealth
Is Inequitably distributed. Perhaps all
these ore to blame. Especially Is It
plain that business conditions grind
men to pieces beneath the upper and
nether millstones. Between the com
petitive system, which still largely con
trols economic conditions, and the
trusts, which ore Iwglnnlng to con
trol, flesh and blood Is sometimes un-
the characteristics of a detective story
with those of a passionate and force
ful drama of love."
Mary Catherine Crowley, the au
thor of "The Heroine of -the Strait," a
romance of Detroit In the time of Pon
tlac, has written another novel with
its scenes laid in that interesting sec
tion, but with the war of 1812 for the
historical background.
Richard G. Badger will issue the
only adequate rendering obtainable of
"Tannhauser," the romance upon whleh
Wagner's most famous opera Is based,
it being translated in a bold and spirit
ed manner from the original German
by Charles G. Kendall.
Miss Ottille Liljencrantz, the author
of "The Thrall of Leif the Lucky,"
has written another historical novel.
This time she has chosen the period
of the Danish conquest of Britain for
her theme and has decided to call the
tale "The Ward of King Canute." It
will be published at an early date by
A. C. McClurg & Co.
McClure, Phillips & Go. announce
"The Blue Goose," by Frank I. Na
son, author of "To the End of the
Trail." It Is a story of mines and min
ers In the gold regions of the Rockies.
Since Bret Harte wrote of the "Forty-
Niners" in California and along the
transcontinental trail the mining world
has completely changed.
It will probably be a surprise to
many to be told that Joseph Conrad,
the author of "Youth," Is not writing
in his native tongue when be writes
tn English. Mr. Conrad is. it seems,
a Pole, and was born In a southern
province of Poland. His father was a
noted critic and poet who edited a
patriotic review at Warsaw.
"Ronald Carnaquay, a Commercial
Clergyman," a novel on the press for
early Issue by the Macmillan Com
pany, will find many readers. The
never-falling humor and pathos of a
pastor s relations with his congrega
tion, his- trustees and some of the
women of his flock have been skillfully
handled by the author, Bradley Oil
man.
For the last twenty years hardly a
spring has gone by that has not wel
corned a new volume of short stories
from the pen of Bret Harte. His death
last May brought many expressions of
regret that this annual contribution to
good Action could no longer go on. Mr,
Harte's literary executors have found,
however, that he left material ready
for one more book, which will be pub
lished under the title of "Trent's
Trust." It contains seven stories, in
which some of the favorite characters
have one more word to say.
The Ileal Catastrophis
"My dear!" said a frightened hus
band In the middle of the night, shak
ing his wife, "where did you put that
bottle of strychnine?"
"On the Bhelf next to the pepper
mint"
"Oh, Lord!" he groaned. "I've swal
lowed it!"
"Well, for goodness sake," whispered
his wife, "keep quite or you'll wake
the baby." Philadelphia Ledger.
Deceived.
Ethel You say Algy has been heart
lessly deceived by a young woman.
Did she lead him on to think that she
loved him?
May Oh, no. She led him on to be
lieve that she didn't care a rap for
him, and then when he carelessly pro
posed accepted him on the spot
One Difficulty In the Way.
"I can marry any girl I please." re
marked the W Ise Guy.
"Yes, but you don't seem to nleaRe
any of them," murmured the Simple
A new process for drying fruit and
vegetables already in use for drying
bops consists in drawing air through
a grldwork of steam pipes into a cham
ber below the slotted floor holding the
materials to be dried. Absorption of
sulphurous gasea is avoided, while
burning Is impossible. In a test at
Worcester, England, samples of car
rots, potatoes, sliced and shredded ap
ples, and other fruits and vegetables,
were kept at temperatures of 90 to
100 degree for six hours, reaching the
ordinary commercial state of dryness.
The cost of working being small, It is
expected that an Important new indus
try will soon develop in England.
The curious phenomena of "symphil-
lsm" are being investigated by E.
Wasmann, a German zoologist. This
is the harboring of foreign species of
Insects, etc., In the nests of ants and
termites, and it is found that more
than one hundred species of arthro
pods, or creatures with Jointed legs,
are thus associated with the ants, at
least, eighty-five or ninety species be
ing beetles. All are recognised easily
by certain peculiarities. Most notable
among the characteristics of these bee
tles are their oily reddish-yellow or
reddish-brown color, and special exu
dation organs or pores with brownish
hairs, but there are also modifications
of the mouth and other parts.
Some of the discouragements and
failures of amateur photographers may
be due to such Imperfections of shut
ters as were disclosed in a paper read
at the recent meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science by E. W. Morley of the West
ern Reserve University and D. C. Mil
ler of the Case School of Applied Sci
ence. The better grade of shutters
were found to be fairly constant In op
eration, but the actual duration of ex
posure was often not even approxi
mately that indicated by the maker.
Different shutters of the same make
and form gave widely different exoos
ures when set for the same time. With
the best shutters of the diaphragm
class the duration of exposure was
nearly independent of the aperture of
the opening. Some shutters of the
cheaper grades, designed to give long,
medium and short exposures, gave
equal exposures In the three cases.
The effecta of the swift advance of
knowledge, which sometimes causes a
new book on some branch of science to
appear a bock number shortly after
Its publication, are felt no less In
practical scientific undertakings. A
striking Illustration Is furnished by
the enormous new coast-defense gun
recently tested at Sandy Hook. This
gun was Intended to be not only the
most powerful In existence, but also
the representative of the most advanc
ed type of such weapons. But after it
had been planned a special plant had
to be established for-Its construction,
and the few years' consequent delay
before It could be completed sutlloed
for such Improvements In gunpowders,
and in the designing of guns for their
use, that now the finished monster Is,
In some respects, out of date before
It has fairly been mounted for service.
The new gun Is of 10 Inches bore and
49.T feet long. It Is calculated that
tt can throw a 2400-pound projectile
twenty-one miles.
able to bear the strain. And the nltv ti n i .
of It! Trench against suicide. Zl , Mug.-Phlladclpbla Record.
wi Ul"
Ise about It. Sneer at human weak
ness, If you like. Denounce It as cow.
Trying a Quick Method.
Blngs What ore you going to
do
ardlv. Invplrln
Dearborn street hotel, and tnr
again to the city man. "Seed a h
nrj7 i-r ec! millions en v,
you aon t see 'em any more. Crows
Is well nigh gone. Time wuj wl
tne pesky Birds mighty nigh
outen bouse an' home. I ain't J
ciu ov tun n. icr uyb ur mi yean Ml
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uu i rei-Kuu uiey am l a-gOln to K
plentiful again. I lamed a good ml
ldees about crows when they used
be lots on 'em.
"You may not know that a cron
the thing that comes clostest to i
In havln' Its life renewed a lots
times. It's a fact. When the coral
was simply a-swarmln' with them,
you couldn't hear yer own ean
the cawln', they would almost eat
bogs up.
"One year I had a bunch of l
porkers and the crows would light I
the backs of the hogs and peck iif
until they nearly killed 'era. I d
up all kinds of scarecrows, but tbl
didn't do a speck of good. It got
bad at last that I bad to lay out in
hay mow by the winder and it:
crows all day. They are mighty ib
the smell of gunpowder, but ther it
risk a good many feathers fer a k
of live hog.
"One day I seed a big, fat iti
come a runnln' across the lot a w
in' and on his back rode a cro
peckln' away fer dear life. I ram
and scared the bird away, but
wasn't long nntll here he come a-M
in on another. He kept it up
got tired of chasln' out and I got i
old rifle and hid behind the woodi!
In a few minutes Montr come ano'.I
hog a-squealln' and the same old ef
a -peckln' holes in his back. I Iw
could plug a chicken hawk on the
o I took aim at old Mr. Crow. '
rifle went 'bing' and I'll be durnf(
that hog didn't drop as dead as 1 4
nail. The crow flew away cawln
me, and I was so all-flred mad I
the gun over a post and knocked It i
smithereens.
"After that I got a dozen shots
! the same crow with an old uw
loader and I knocked enough feail
out - of the bird to make a smlt
mournln' fer an Indian. One to
kind o' crept up on him, took goodi'
and blew his dad droted head n
him. That bird had nine lives If
had any at all and I ain't to sun
wouldn't have got away after I 4
him If I hadn't tied him on a pole
a scarecrow."
CROW WITH L1VE3 TO SPARE. .
It Tormented !! Caneed a
farmer Mo End of Woe. (
"Say you seed a hundred crows In
one flock?" asked an Illinois farmer
of a man who was telling him of, a
visit he had made to the country" a
few weeks ago. The farmer leaned
over in his chair, took aim at a cuupl
dor half way acroaa the lobby ot a
His Style ot Haircut
An elderly and rather Irritable fl
tleman entered a barber's pa
have his hair trimmed. All the
were occupied. He was about to 1"
when a voluble operator persuaii'
remarked: "Ready In a minute,
Reassured, the customer sat m
picked up a paper, and absently H
to porus It Meanwhile the barb
hlblted an extraordinary loqacloo
discussing the merits of race nitf
the possibilities at Saratoga, and
ous other subjects. Finally be
Ingly offered the vacated chair to
old gentleman.
"How would you like your balrtl
the barber Inquired.
"In perfect silence, please," wt
curt and Ironical reply. rbllaa
rubllc Lodger.
neatly Looking for Work.
Gritty George Lady, I hear dat
cuckoo clock Is out of order.
The Lady-What of that? '
Gritty George-Well, t Just wit
say dat I'll sit around an' do de en'
In' every hour fer tn hnard and
In. I'm always willln' to wor4
adelphla Tress.
Making Cautions Approach
"Ad visa me. Uncle Jack."
"Of course: what la It?"
"Shall I ask you for $23 or P"
Life.
Conscientious reformers finally )
to the conclusion that reform U K
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