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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1904)
! j LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER. OH AS. V. ADA BOTLK, Pub. TOLEDO OREGON. Very few of the churches hav been closed because of overcrowding. There Is more health In happiness than there Is happiness In health. The book agent who sold Speaker Cannon sixty books he didn't want would be an Invaluable adjunct to the lobby. A perfect flying machine should car ry along a few acres of India rubber scenery on which to alight In case of accident. Bertlllon has discovered a method for making the dead lifelike. He will be honored for Inventing a plan to wake up some of the living. There Is only one certain way to dis pose of the boll weevil; wait for It to die out, as several Western States had to do with the grasshopper and potato bug. Now that he has quit work at the early age of 8T Russell Sage has reason to be thankful that he was saving, as he has laid by enough to live on for the rest of his days. The Czar of Russia can at least count upon having all the newspapers of his country with him on almost any Subjot. 'lis easier to agree with him than to suspend publication. Since the Empress of China received several automobiles as a birthday pres ent she can Just line up her loving sub jects on a wellwpaved street when they displease her and touch the button. The life of Edgar Allen Poe Is to be dramatized. If It Is successful It will be a standing rebuke to those who de clare that American play-goers care only for the frivolous and spectacular. Still another way of keeping the boy contented on the farm Is suggest ed. This Is Is to make It easy for him to get from the farm to the town, and vice versa. Or, In other words, good roads. Beatrice Fairfax has copyrighted the advice that a 14-year-old girl should kiss no boy unless It be her brother. We violate no confidence In calling attention to the fact that all men are brothers. The author of "Mrs. Wiggs" has bought herself a $10,000 home In Louis ville. That's rather modest But per haps the report that the lady's royal ties have amounted to $400,000 are lightly exaggerated. A Cleveland man who belongs to a wealthy family has renounced society and gone to live with tramps, because he says society people bore him with their talk about books and art This apparently upsets the widely accept ed theory that society talks only about dukes and bridge. Glowing dreams of past grandeur and vain Imaginings about unearned proHperity to come do not satisfy the Spain of to-duy. The vice consul at Madrid reports that the government Is to open a number of agricultural schools In various parts of the king dom. Students will be Instructed not only In regurd to raising crops, but In the use of agricultural machinery and Implements. Spain has no well-wisher more sincere than her late antagonist the United States, and every token of her progress is noted here with satis faction. A report mode by the dean of the faculty of arts and sciences of Har vard university shows that out of 172 studonts who received tho bachelor's degree with honors at Harvard last commencement eighty-four were pre pared for college In the public schools, as against seventy-six from private schools of all kinds. This In convincing evldenco of the high character of in struction to be had In the public - schools, especially In view of the fact that the academics and other private fitting school exist chiefly for the pur pose of preparing Iniys for college, while In the public high schools this Is merely an Incident. For years tho national party conven tions were held In Baltimore more fre quently than In any other city. This was at tho tlmo when tho center of population was In Marylnnd or in old Vlrglnln. The present center of popu lation Is In southeastern Indiana. St. Iouls and Chicago, tho cities In which tho national conventions are to be held this your, are west of tho center, but they are nearer to it than any other considerable cities nve Cleveland, Cin cinnati. Indianapolis and Louisville Chicago has displaced Baltimore as tho favorite convention city. Lincoln was nominated there, and so wero Grant Garfield, Blaine. Harrison. Bryan and Cleveland. Tho conventions which nominated Mcliluley met In St Louis and in Philadelphia, and Mr. Cleveland was nominated In St Louis and Harri son in Minneapolis, as well as In Chi cago. The little parties frequently chose little places for their conven tions. The Abolitionists, for instance, In 1839 nominated a candidate for the presidency in Warsaw, Genesee Coun ty, New York. Not a few fathers hurt their sons and damage the careers of those sons by picking out careers for them. Train up the boy In the way he should go, and then let blm choose his own work. In the choice of a vocation, as In the choice of a wife, every young man should be left alone. If he Is not worthy of being left alone the parent has grievously Injured the boy In the preceding decade of bis life. These In terpretations mean that I would not educate my boy under a private tutor. I would educate' my boy with boys, al though not entirely by boys. Boysdo, however, educate boys; but a boy who Is trained alone is liable to fall In ad Justing himself to his membership in humanity. He is to become a broth er of the common lot. He therefore should learn early how to adjust him self to his fellows. Neither would I educate my son abroad; he Is an Amer ican boy. I should be glad to have him get all that Is best from the pri vate school in Lausanne or Geneva, but not for one Instant would I have his Ideals formed by the French mas ter or his methods by the German. A primary note in his character should be the American, although a note more fundamental is the human. He Is, as a human boy, to h trained up for ser vice In this great Interesting, new life of our new world. Your father can remember a 7 per cent government bond served as a sort of Interest standard. Of course, it was a gilt-edged security, but 7 per cent for money was considered about the proper figure. That was not very long ago. It was in a day when the public debt of the nation, measured by the resources of the people, was a heavy burden. Now we have 2 per cent bonds. In fact, more than half of our bonds are 2 per cent securities. In the face of a thousand alluring Invest ments, Including farm mortgages and municipal bonds, the government can have all the money it wants at 2 per cent. Your share of the Interest on the public debt Is 34 cents annually. Your share of the Interest-bearing debt is $11. We piled up millions of liabili ties during the Spanish war, and yet the total of tho public debt is less than the capital of the Steel Corporation; less than the total amount of life in surance credited to at least two con cerns. The interest-bearing debt on Dec. 81, 1003, was $901,747,220. Eleven dollars per head. In Great Britain the debt is $75 per capita, and in Holland it is $00. France has a national debt so great that each Inhabitant owes $150. The ray of sunlight there is the fact that France has borrowed from the people, and there Is no danger of foreign creditors foreclosing a mort gage on that country. Argentina owes $128 per capita, and Australasia $203. We talk much of our natural resources, our loyal people and our new navy. Don't forget that one of our greatest items of strength in foreign lands is our financial standing. The nation with unlimited credit with a big treasure chest, is in a position to command and direct And influence. Financially, the United States has no competitors. 80B.OOO IForth of Babbits. Rabbits, which have been the pest of Australia and New Zealand for many years, have now become a source of large revenue. Frozen rabbits to the value of over $306,000 were export ed from Victoria, New Zealand, last year, In addition to $70,000 worth of preserved rabbits. This business Is dally Increasing. Now that the trap ping Industry Is such an Important one, employing as It does several thousand hands, and Is largely effective in keep ing the rabbit pest In check, the chances are that the methods of com pulsory suppression now enforced on landholders will at least be moderated by the government. The rabbits In Australia and New Zealand were originally shipped from England, and it is almost Impossible to keep them out of the cattle ranches Fences have been built around these vast stations with a wire netting sunk eighteen inches below the surface to prevent the rabbits from getting Inside but as soon as grass becomes short oii the outside "Mr. Bunnle" will burrow under the wire netting and cat up the grass ou tho Inside. Rabbits In this conntrv rarely bur row, but are to be found In stumps of trees and under fallen timber. In and about Chicago, where land Is divided for building purposes, rabbits make their homos under the wooden side walks, and cau bo easily turned out by a Rood dog. Such, however, is not the habit of the Australian pest Chicago Record-Herald. French Coal Supply Small. The coal miners of France, located In the northern part of that country do not supply tho needs of the French People, who have to Import 28.000 000 tons, against I tons raised at home. THE SCOUHGED CITY. BALTIMORE A MODERN AMERI CAN MUNICIPALITY. Cam on as a Fhlpplnsri Ballroad and Manufacturing Center Fine Streets, Noted Buildings and Institutions Courageously Faces the Future. IRE has not crushed Balti more. Out of chaos and debris the Ma ryland metropolis lifts up her head c o u r a g eously. She does not fear to look about Desolation con fronts her wher ever her gaze Is directed. Acre after acre In the very heart of the citv. where Cam. merce had reared Its splendid temples, is burned over. Eighty city blocks are in ruins and 2,500 buildings are de stroyed. Where Wealth and its work shops, where Industry found reward, where Thrift brought Its savings and Plenty reared its structures of stone, brick and steel, where the great en gines of Finance maintained an ac tivity which sent life, and power through the commercial arteries of the town there Is a scene that the man of sober niliid dreads to look upon. Only once before has there been pre sented on the American continent a scene so expressive of the horror, the consuming power of flame; that was when Chicago fell under the fiery blast In 1871. Then there were no relics of the disaster like those which Balti more contains. Building had not yet VIEW ON LOMBARD become an art in the metropolis of the West and the structures which the flames . attacked were burned to the ground.. Here It is different All through the burned district the mas slve skeletons of architectural giants remain. Hundreds of ugly-looking frames of steel, with blackened bricks clinging to them, make a forbidding sight. After the progress of the fire had been checked these looked like great coke ovens, with tongues of flame leaping from them. The walls had the color of coke. For days there after clouds of smoke hunsr over them. At the same time tangled masses of wire crossed and recroesed the streets These the wind blew hither and thither, Just as it did the sheets of tin and huge timbers while the flames were sweeping the town. Crumbling walls still swayed in the breeze, en dangering the lives of those who ven tured too near. By day the scene was one or cnaos. At night it was weird. Conra.eona and H.n.hi Baltimore has cause to shudder. The loss approximates $150,000,000. of which 80 per cent is covered by insur ance. The loss sustained by the ces sation of business will add much more. There are 50,000 persons out of work. It Is a blow such as none but Ameri can fortitude could endure. Yet Baltimore courageously fronts the future. 8he foresees a new era. She is planning for a new city to be built on the ruins of the old. nnri if i. to be a better one. There will be wider sirecis, Detter sanitary conditions and improved fire protection. Out nf ashes of the old will come forth a new Baltimore, more splendid than that whose sufferings aroused the wnri.r. sympathy. The Stricken City. The stricken citv is picturesque municipalities In the Uni ted States. It has many claims for dls Unction other than its vast commercial Interests, whose various ramifications Mieuu an over the world. It Is fa mous for its ornaments! trOQ. nlflccnt buildings, noted institutions of learning, nandsome monunmnts n.i the seat of the Cutholic hierarehv in western hemisphere. It is known n. he 'Monumental City" from tho state ly Shafts that EXace Rovernl nt If- ..k 11c streets and squares. The most notn- vi iiiese are the Washington men umcut and the Battle monument Its v 'A-A -it fa '"am i wslii-jif m!5' i3yr' MtfyWim I " "' jjiimiiiiuii mwi nig.iuiMiiiiinwwwwnnii r" ! telf all RUINS OF THE GREAT streets are broad and level, the main thoroughfares being magnificent ave nues. They are mostly laid out at right angles to one another and generally have a width of sixty feet. The resi dential sections are extremely band some, while the business district, now a scene of utter ruin, showed proud and artistic architecture. As an im portant art and scientific center the city holds high rank. In the matter of population Baltimore is the sixth city in the United States, 500,000 souls find ing habitation within Its corporate limits. Foanded by Lord Baltimore. The city wss zii cut la 1730. Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, after whom the town Is named, was given a grant of land by King Charles I. of England, comprising the territory now included In the States of Delaware and Maryland. Cecil never visited the territory himself, but governed it by deputies and with manifest fairness. Baltimore was laid out In half-acre lota STREET, BALTIMORE. on the Patapsco River, an arm of Ches apeake Bay. Twenty-five years after its founding It contained only twenty five houses and 200 persons, but from tbis on its growth was more rapid. In December, 1776, the Continental Con gress transferred its sittings from Phil adelphla to Baltimore, where it met for two months. The population of the city during the next 100 years rose to 300,000. Baltimore was the theater of stirring events in Revolutionary days. In its history are recorded the bombardment of Fort Mcllenry by the British and the battle of North Point where the citizens of Baltimore repelled the ad vance of the British in the war of 1812 During the Civil War the city was torn by different sentiments loyalty 1 ihe J?orth and WnPBthjr for the South. The Sixth Massachusetts Regi ment was attacked by a mob in its streets and blood was shed. The citi zens of Baltimore atoned for the treat ment of this command during the Spnnish-Amerlcan war, when the Sixth Massachusetts was going south, by ten dcring the soldiers a magnificent dem onstration. Orent in Manufacturing. No city in the United States has a greater diversity of manufactures. Its foreign trade aggregates $100,000,000 a year. It has Immense foundries and machine shops, while in the clothing if' v ?fi' " hi mixm& RUINS ON FAYETTE cha: "Well " present it (try to see EQUITABLE BUILDING. r ;rin It and tobacco industries thousaD ml So ' Inhabitants find employment UWyoi I see the world In the oyster trade tati approach In the fruit-canning industry. satisfy yc are over forty establishment, y. "Satisf; city for packing oysters and tm 018 80 which 10,000 hands are employed f'"oh' 7 ward of sixty carloads of oy(u) .m. 2, shipped dally to the city f rem CW Sht o peake Bay while the season U mercy's i The total number of manufactory' hP or the dry before the fire was 6,300 ii nd ' 80,000 persons found employment i' w ar them. In grain export It ranks iJ m7 own only to New York. From Its W , hft! more than a dozen steamshln . 7 . . uiate to Important foreign and don? "Yes, tic ports. There are 800 miles of w, reply, " streets and 300 miles of cable and $ But I v. trie railway traverse the city and tn" nect with suburbs within a rann ,ecret ' twenty-five miles. j Ae an Kdacational Center. learns t Baltimore's places of learning tf with hli among the foremost In the land, m! lips be Johns Hopkins University is knot1 nllneT" throughout the universe. In Us dil6 "eR ent appointments it equals any 1 .. tutlon of Its character in the coW o The Peabody Institute, which wasti be pit! recipient of over $1,000,000 from tt that h late George Peabody, who waH In ba ness for several years in BaltJmm also ranks high as an educational ; stltutlon. The Loyola College, whk is under the supervision of the Jesofc and the Seminary of St. Sulplce, i flourishing Catholic institutions, tne University of Maryland occupies conspicuous position In education ranks. In 1873 Enoch Pratt, a succw ful merchant of Baltimore, establish a free circulating library which nm comprises a handsome central bulldl ' and four branches scattered thron tho town. Several other valuable! brarles are to be found in the city. Tin Catholic cathedral and the residence i Cardinal Gibbons are objects of into est to the visitor. Among its super! public buildings is the City Hall, watt Is built of white marble at a costK $3,000,000. It occupies an entire sqntn ' The white marble, brick and gru' lte used in the construction of a Urn number of the buildings come froa quarries and clay beds adjacent to tin city. The water supply of Baltimoit was first taken from Jones' Falli about seven miles above the city, but in 1881 a further supply was brought: seven miles through a twelve-foot tun-'t nel from Gunpowder River, entalllii an expense of $4,000,000. , The aqofr ducts leading from the storage reser voirs have a capacity for deliverinj 2,000,000 gnllons daily. Baltimore la i great railroad center and has greit1 freight and passenger stations. Mani public squares and parks dot the city. one or mem, the Druid Hill, containing 704 acres. ; Meat-Eating Causes Appendlcitli ; In a recent discussion at the Acad- f. emy of Medicine. Tarls. I.ncn Cham ', plonere said that every day more con- ' nrmauon was forthcoming of the Idea V that It Was the nhimo n.f a nuwif dlt wnicn was tne principal cause of ep- 0 pw pendldtis. In those countries wherot the natives eat verv llttlo mif an In I Brittany, appendicitis is very rare. In l v vuu uuiLoi o rates, wuerc (. a great deal of moat Is Min uniwn-1 dlcltls Is four times more common than f m raris. f fc. Chestnuts are an Important article of food in Italy. J STREET, BaITMOrI . .. . your a' Sylpl caturht vivid f "Oh, Insult l I i rle ti to th o TO th bl ci tl C tl ii n v t