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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1904)
LIHCOU COOT LEADER. CHAS. r. ADA K. MOVLM, Pmba. TOLEDO ORBGON. Taking too much liberty may deprive a man of his liberty. The child Is father to the man and the college graduate is his grandfather. If Mexico has any more men like Diaz it should begin to economize on them. Children are the light of the home, but sometimes they should be turned down. The most successful lawyers now are ones who can keep their clients out of court The Italian government finds that It has a surplus of $13,000,000 on hand. Italy's grafters must be new and In experienced hands. If it comes to a test, Russia Ib much less likely to fall on her knees and sue for peace than to fall on the Japanese and hold the piece Bhe already has. A woman writer tells the girls to se lect their husbands by the color of their eyes. It would be well also to take some cognizance of the colr of their noses. . The Cuuscieuce funds are constantly receiving contributions of about 30 cents, but we rarely hear of the large robbers who disgorge a million dol lars or a railroad. The time is rapidly approaching when one half of the world will be In the madhouse and the other half outside, and then the tug of war will be to see which half Is sane. A Turkish artist who drew a carica ture of the Sultan has been sentenced to 101 years in prison. We have no doubt, however, that he may succeed through good conduct in, having It marked down to 99. ' According to one of the scientific Journals more than 8,000,000 of the 13,500,000 people of Mexico do not work. No wonder some of the Mexi cans are opposed to having Yankee Ideas introduced into that country. Canada's alarm for fear that En gland may give away still more of her territory seems hardly Justified. It has not been England's custom to let go of anything in the way of real estate that she could reasonably hold on to. Very opportunely, a consular report on Beirut as a center for American trade hus been Issued. Iron pipes and sewing machines are mentioned as finding ready sale, but there is no ref erence make to the market that should exist for Inexpensive French guillo tines or American gallows. Discrimination against the Chinese in Australia takes the form of laws regulating their hours of labor. A Chinaman of Melbourne lately paid five shillings fine, and two pounds twelve shillings costs, for working at half past 8 o'clock in the evening, when the law says he must stop at f. He was engaged in the "labor" of sort ing, for the next day's washing, the clothes, of a customer William L. Hale appeared in Wash ington the other day and introduced hlmlf as "actor, poker player, play wright, waiter, lawyer, poet, electri cal engineer, scientist, artist, singer, champion pugilist of the world, aveng er of Jesse James, head of the fur trust, slayer of COO men, and worth $10,(XK),000." The policeman who ar retted him explained that he did it on general principles, which shows thut a policeman may have a true sense of tho fitness of things. Visitors to Coney Island this year found Now York's great summer recre ation ground a much more decent place than formerly A new company had provided many harmless amusements in its gaily decorated inclosure, and it took so much time to enjoy them that none was left for tho vicious reBorts which once made the place notorious. Everybody knows that the way to keep a boy and a man, too, for that mat terfrom going wrong Is to keep him busy going right; but not every one remember It all the time.' The sorrow manifested over the tragic and deplorable death of Mrs. Booth Tucker allows how extensive are public sympathy and admiration with and for one whose life is really unselfish. Although young In years at the time of her doutb, she had had a long career of work and service, ex tending practically without . iuterrup tlon from childhood to middle age. The enthusiasm, the devotion, the sympathy and the forgetfuluess of. self which characterized this life can hard ly be appreciated by one who merely rends the simple record thereof. It was a life gloriously filled with love of humanity and a zeal for soula a twofold devotion which comprehended pity for the wretchedness of this world and a strong determination to amelio rate it so far as the spiritual welfare of multitudes lesides. The loss of such a worker is a calamity not only to her family and the great organiza tion which they have built up but to the world at large, which, in pausing reverently to note her passing, proves that such an example as hers will not end at the grave. Wise-acres for fifty years have pre dicted the doom of the horse. But the horse is here to stay. When the swift locomotive succeeded the slow stage coach the "finish" of the horse was apparent, to some, but it failed to ma terialize. When the bicycle, to some extent, displaced the splendid "rig," a great many then thought the horse was sure to go. But he Is here still. When the electric car superseded the "dinky bob-tail" the same prediction was made, and even more forcibly was it noised about when the erratic auto mobile Invaded our midst For ages, and history runneth not to the con trary, the horse has been man's closest friend of all the animals. In times of peace, war, commercial prosperity and in the pursuit of pleasure the noble horse has proved his worth. In the face of scientific progress the horse has advanced in an astounding degree. Never before In the history of the world has the noble steed reached such a high development. More attention Is paid to-day to flne points la Weed ing than ever before. Not alone is this true of racing and fancy breeds, but also of draught animals. It Is natural for man to love the horse and It Is natural for the horse to love man. Like pretty much everything else the matter of having children has two sides to it, says the Saturday Evening Post As a great many children are failures, and as children are the Joint product of heredity and environment, both elements preponderantly under parental control, it would seem more sensible to say that there were too many people undertaking parental re sponsibility instead of too few. And further, parentalbood has many cares and sorrows and exasperations. Still, when all is said, how many persons who found themselves childless at 45 have been able honestly to congratu late themselves? Children have a use as an assurance against destitution and loneliness in old age. They are satisfactory to the vanity for family Immortality. But more than these and all other advantages is the advantage of prolonging one's lifts. Growing chil dren will keep any proper man or woman young in spirit and in mind, will retard the development of that sour yet complacent cynicism which curses old age both for one's self and for those about one The man or woman again, the right sort of man or woman who has children . drinks every day a deep draught at the foun tain of eternal youth. The demonstration before the New York Microscopical Society that lazi ness is a disease caused by the insid ious germ known as hookworm, anky llstomm, duodenale, and uncinariasis, will no doubt set many people pitying themselves. Ruth McEnery Stuart, In one of her inimitable Southern sketch es, tells the story of a negro who de clares himself to have been "marked for rest," and who acts on that theory all his life, while his wife supports him and the rest of the family. Oth ers who like to stop work better than to begin It, but who have not been able to excuse laziness as anything more than habit, will probably utilize the loophole offered by the New York mlcroscoplsts. No doubt the lazy man's respect for himself will go up amazingly, and self-pity will also be in evidence when he realizes that he is in reality suffering from a disease. It U to be hoped, however, that the mi croscopists will follow up their re searches and discover the cure for the hookworm of laziness. It is said there is no germ without its destroyer, Just as there is no poison without its anti date, and the discovery- of the nemesis of the hookworm will simplify the world's affairs amazingly. If all lazy people can be successfully treated, the dynamic force of the human race will be Increased about 50 ier cent. It Is iusplrlng to think what a vast increase In America's Industries will occur when nil the tramps rush eagerly to meet Uie work which they now side step so adroitly. The lazy youth of high sjclety, whose hardeBt work to day is keeping his cigarette lighted, will be a captain of Industry, and all avenues of business will feel the reju venating influences of the antl-lazlness treatment There Is only one danger which now clouds the glowing future pointed out by the New York mlcro scoplsts. The investigators are quite likely to be germ-bitten and become too lazy to carry their investigations to a finish. About Corn. Just previous to the Civil War a bushel of corn represented more than four and one-half hours of human la bor at a cost of 85 cents, while to day forty-one minutes of labor pro duce the sams amount for 10ft cents. SOME BARGAINS IN CLOTHING THAT PLEASED BOTH FATHER AND SON. HE was a plain, ordinary citizen, with a smile, and a friend asked hlni why he laughed. "Because I am happy," replied The Man. "I'll tell you about it My boy needed a new overcoat, and I had $10. laid away, and I was afraid that the ten wouldn't cover the need. What do I know about boys' overcoats? His mother buys his clothes, and, God bless her, she pinches alpng and makes $2 do the work of $4, and how am I to know? I didn't think I could do much with less than $12, and I couldn't spare $12 very well. " "The Boy and his mother came to the office, and The Boy and I went to a clothing store. It was a new experience for me. I saw '12' In red figures on some boys' overcoats, and almost had heart failure; fouud later that the figures meant age, not dollars. "Well, he tried on one. It was gray and warm and had a belt and came down to the tops of his shoes, and he was so tickled he Just giggled. He kept finding new pockets, and he threw his chest out and said: 'If I could Just have this one, papa. I asked the clerk and he said 'five dollars. Five dollars for all that expanse of coat! I gasped like a drowning man, and Bald: 'Boy, don't you want something else?' He looked shy, and said he always wanted a pair of golf gloves. Got 'em,' too; good ones for 25 cents, and The Boy said that mamma was going to get him a new sweater some day. " 'We'll get it now, I said, and the clerk flung out a daisy, white and blue, $1.50, and I paid. Say, I guess Boy thought I was going to. die right there, and when I told him that he ought to have one of those tasseled caps to go with the sweater he absolutely looked scared, and said he didn't know he could have It. It was a beauty 59 cents made of mercerized silk, they said. The Boy kept the coat oh. You couldn't have pried It off him. . He giggled again and wanted me to feel in the pockets, and then he wanted to kiss me on the street. He said he guessed the boys at school would think he had a pretty good father. ' "When we got back to his mother he was so excited that he couldn't talk plain, and he mdxed pockets and loving his father and mercerized silk cap and golf gloves up scandalously. Then she glanced around to be sure that nobody was looking, and leaned her head up against me and said: 'You make me so happy, dear.'' "And it all cost $7.34, and I figure that there was one thousand dol lnr' worth cf good fec-Hiig iu it. I am happy, and yet I feel like a cheat when I think that I ever begrudged my family anything." A thousand dollars worth of Joy for $7.34. Yes, there are bargains for those who will look for thera. Des Moines News. Governor Bailey, of Kansas, is a great believer in corn lands. He owns a farm of several hundred acres which he refuses to sell, holding that corn land will soon be more valuable than wheat-producing ground. His proper ty is worth more than $75 an acre, he thinks, and will rise to $100 In five years. Some sixty-four miles off the coast of Tunis a cluster of little islands has been discovered. One was found to be inhabited by a former French ser geant, Clement, who had disappeared some fourteen years ago, and a small number of natives. The islands have been annexed by France, and Clement appointed resident Inspector of fish ing and of the harbor, registrar and teacher. It is not known just how long mos quitoes can live, but their average life is much longer than Is ordinarily sup posed. Thousands of them live through winter, hibernating or asleep In dark places In barns or house cellars. In sparsely settled localities, where they cannot find such places for shelter, they live through the winter In hollow trees; and, even though the tempera ture may fall far below freezing, they are not winter killed, but on the ap proach of warm weather become ac tive again. Mosquitoes are frequently seen flying about in the woods before the snow has wholly left the ground. Popular Science Monthly. A hundred'pounds of ambergris has been seized at Seattle as stolen prop erty. The appraised value Is $30 an ounce, or $48,000 for the hundred pounds. A hundred pounds of pure gold would not be worth as much by $10,000. ,And were a hundred pounds of gold to be stolen at Seattle a great stir would be made about it. Amber gris is scarcer than gold. It is more of an uncertain quantity. It Is harder to find and harder to transport It is found floating in lumps in the ocean, nnd occasionally In the intestines of the spermaceti whale. There are, how ever, few sperm whnias available, and the lumps of ambergris have been growing scarcer ns the whales have decreased In number. POOR ENGLISH SPARROWS. Dipped in Cnnnry Dye They Were Bold for Mongatera. "At least some members of-the spar row family have been enjoying their ense nnd a great deal of luxury In pretty, bright brass, bird cages within the past few weeks," remarked a down town business man, "and every time I see the busy little creatures now, I un consciously find myself anxiously ex amining their feathers, wondering the while, if they numbered ayiong the hundred or more fortunate ones that a clever grafter succeeded iu pawning oft on this ever-credulous public of ours as the real thing in th way of a chirp ing canary bird. The fellow who did the trick has my congratulations. He Is Ingenious, at any rate; and I could not help thinking, when I saw him caught with the goods on, too, how much real talent and rare qualities of enterprise had gone Into seed. Some how, I felt provoked that it should have been wasted upon a poor little flock of Innocent sparrows. "As it turned out, complaints have been coming In thick and fast. Com plaints that a man has, for some time past, been peddling around town Eng lish sparrow that it has since been discovered, were artistically dipped into a pretty, bright, canary-colored dye, and disposed of at a dollar or more a head; the latter depending upon the generosity of his victims. With each purchase was given a slip of paper, upon which was written the rules which were to be strenuously ad hered to. Exactness, he explained, be ing necessary, owing to the unusual re quirements of the peculiar species of canary bird which he presented. Upon the paper was written a very few things to do for the little creatures In their too small wooden cages. The rules consisted chiefly of "don'ts for canary birds." One read: 'Avoid strong light, and went on to explain that the bird was very young, and that like all young things, strong light was bad for the eyes. But the 'don't' that proved the fellow's undoing and led to his capture appeared in black, capital letters, and read: 'Never bathe the bird but once within a month. The bird having been Just taken fresh from the bath this morning, there will be no further trouble concerning Its bath for a month. All that this bird requires Is plenty of food.' "Now, even to the unthinking," con cluded the merchant "this sounds pre posterous. But Just the same, it actual ly happened, and had not the dye rubbed off of the little captives, and thereby their identity established, I don't doubt that the grafter would have died Independently wealthy. All of which only adds one more proof to the ever-current fact that the public really wants to be humbugged that they are anxious for it. The only real difference being degree." Washington Post. The Ubiquitous Fiea. She was a nrettv nmi .Ito,. n, - nine colonial lady of four summers, but. savs umui" aiuguzine, siie began her flrst conversation with the gentleman Just out from England In this unprom ising fashion: "The tleas bite me a lot In the night " "Dear me, that Is very sad!" Then wishing to administer consolation even In those trying circumstances, the gen tleman from England added, "Do they bite you in the day time, too?" "No." "Why not?" "Well, you see in the daytime they's busy biting grandma." Grandma lived in England. Then, little by little, the visitor from that country got at the little girl's theory in which imagination and geography were qtieerly mingled. Knowing that It was night In EnRland when it was day In Australia, she had pictured the flea as a wandering Jew, dally hopping the world in pursuit of his laborious livelihood. The Great Telescopes Outdone. Remarkable results in star photogra phy with comparatively inexpensive apparatus have been reported by Pro fessor Schaeberle. His telescope was a parabolic reflector of short focus the mirror being 13 inches In diameter, with a focus of 20 inches, and expos ures of live minutes gave star images that were beyond the reach of the 30 inch Lick telescope and that required exposures of two hours with the 30 nch Crossly reflector. Stars fainter than the seventeenth magnitude were included. ""office Business. The United States postal department bandies 7,250.000 letters and cards a yra.?,UIUl)er about e1u to that of Great Britain, Germany and France taken together. 0 Absence or soft water is one excuse for drinking hard, -use cience AN" " One of the most durable woods i. sveamore. A Rtnt.na mori-. .. " - num it no in the museum of Glzeh at Cairo i known to be npnrlv nruvi ' r-rf Jtyixtj 011 Notwithstanding this great age it i v nwu useu Is m tlrely sound and natural in appeal A new fuel Is being manufactured in California which Is made from twigs and leaves of the ennoix. tree mixed with crude petroleum i! Is said to burn freely and glVe 'zoo results. Piles made from thi ' immune from attacks by the tereT and last longer than yellow pine. Th. demand for them Is greater than th supply. An innovation In the line of railroad. .eiegrupu service nas Deen put lntn use ou the New York Central riw.j between Utica and Albany. By the im-uiis oi tne apparatus a single wire can be used for telegraph and tele- pnone messages at tihe same time While the operator is ticking away a telegraph in Morse code Annthoi Tim. son can telephone a message without iue si'igmest interrerence. In a recent report on the ronU. r extended measurements of mental traits in the two sexes, Prof. E. L. Thbrndike said that in the measure ment of abilities the greatest differ ence found was the female superiority In the tests of impressibility, such as the rate and accuracy of perception verbal memory and spelling. In these matters only about one-third of the boys reach the median mark for girls. In general the girls were found to be mentally less variable than the boys. The War Department co-operating with the Sheffield Biological Labora tory at Yale, has detailed 20 men from the , Hospital Corps of the army to go to New Haven under charge of an assistant army surgeon, and submit to experiments intended to determine whether physiological economy in diet cannot be practiced with distinct betterment to the body, and without loss of strength and vigor. Profes sor Chittenden of the Sheffield Scien tllic School says there Is apparently no question that 'people ordinarily consume much more food than there is any necessity for, and that this ex cess is, in the long run, detrimental to health, . and defeats the very objects aimed at. Electromagnets promise to come into common use for lifting heavy pieces of Iron In factories and rolling mills. Instead of the present hooks and chains a large piece of metal Is sus pended above the iron or steel object to be fitted, a current is run through this, rendering it magnetic, so that It simply picks up the object and holds It until the current is turned off. A mngnet weighing 350 pounds can carry a load of five tons. The time required for fastening a load to a crane by the present methods Is estimated to rep resent one-half the cost of handling the material, so that great saving In handling material Is apparent. There Is a number of these electromagnets now iu use at different steel plants. If we muRt have mosquitoes at all, people will regret that the new species of these insects which Dr. William L. Underwood has discovered is a native of the Maine woods instead of more' populous parts of the country. For this mosquito does not bite, although It Is so large that If it were given to biting it would be a terror; and moreover, its larvae feed eagerly upon the larvae of other species of mosqui toes. For this reason experiments are being made to determine If the new mosquito will thrive in the climate of southern New England. It has receiv ed the name of Eucorethra Under woodl. Its manner of disposing of the larvae of other mosquitoes is cal culated to make sufferers from recent mosquito bites gleeful. "The victim is caught," says Doctor Underwood, "shaken violently a few times, and swallowed!" New "Rock of Ages." A missionary lately returned from India expressed the opinion that re ligious work was going on very slowly there on account of the difficulty In translating the spirit as well as the text of the Gospel. "Take an instance," he said. "I tried to teach my converts the old hymn: " 'Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself In Thee." "I had a native Bible student trans late it Into the vernacular. s To make sure that he had grasped the spirit or the words, I took his translation and had It translated buck into Encllsb by another student It then read: " 'Very old stone, split for my bene fit, let me absent myself beneath one of thy fragments. "Detroit News Tribune. It's almost as difficult for a medium to predict what is going to happen & It Is for a historian to record what has happened.