LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER.
CHAS. Ft & ADA E. SOKJLE, Pubs.
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TOLEDO OREGON.
Uncle Sam will dig that canal In a
way that will scoop the world.
The whole world seems to be brush
ing the dust off Its war material.
They used to ask where all the pins
went to. Where does all the loose
change go?
The per capita circulation Is now
530.21, the highest point ever reached
In this country.
There are nearly five hundred Chris
tian churches In Japan and over one
thousand missionaries.
Eastern society has taken up the fad
of wearing wooden shoes at social
gatherings. That beats the Dutch!
Tin-horn Imitators of Tat Crowe's
horrlblo example are still trying to do
business. But there's only one P. 0.
Russia has abolished the censorship
on foreign dispatches, but continues to
deny to Russians what she grants to
liiu rest of the world.
Possibly Cuba's success In raising
that $33,000,000 loan has given the
Porto Ricans a dazzling misconception
of the beauties of independence.
A Louisville woman died from the
effects of swallowing a small electric
light bulb. That should keep those
advocates of a light diet quiet for a
few days.
The Inquiry is made In one of the
Eastern pupers: "Are our great guns
safe?" That all depends on whether
you are the man behind the gun or the
man In front of it
Scientists claim they have fully
proven that malaria is carried by mos
quitoes. As they seem unable to ex
terminate mosquitoes, they should try
to cure them of their malaria.
A woman can stand It much better
to have a rainstorm come up when
she Is out in her good clothes than
to have It clear up when she Is out
In her old ones which she wears only
In bad weather.
Wages In Russian factories are 2
cents an hour and upward. There
are thousands who work for a cent an'
hour and tens of thousands who do
not receive 80 cents a day for ten,
eleven and more hours' work.
A Boston man who had been steal
ing for years and Juggling the books
was discovered In his wrongdoing pure
ly by accident One of the wonders
of the age is the ease with which
books can be made by an expert to
cover up shortages.
A Chicago bank is trying to enforce
a rule that Its employes shall not mar
ry unui urawing a salary or at least
11,000 a year. Of course it Is presumed
the restriction would not apply to a
fascinating $800 clerk who happened to
be proposed to this year by a beautiful
blonde millionairess.
What an extravagant wasteful
thing Is war. What enormous sums
of money are spent In getting ready
and how short a time It requires fre
quently to destroy that which thou
sands of hands have spent months or
years in building. Extravagance and
wusto are part of the wickedness of
war. Producers are converted into
cousumers and tho means of consum
ing and destroying products are mul
tiplied many fold. An army costs fear
fully even In comparative repose. In
actual conflict It is a bankrupting and
paralyzing Institution.
It's a hard lesson to learn that people
after all are only folks. A Texas man,
starting his boy out on a "earer"
awny from home, said to him: "You
may see a heap of people who have got
more money than you have; a heap of
people who havo got more brains and
more success. Don't you worry about
that. Whenever you meet n man who
illows he's your superior, you just look
it him and say to yourself: 'After all
you're Just folks.' You want to re
member for yourself, too. that you're
Just folks." That's often the trouble
Wo look at other people and wonder at
tho great stakes for which they are
playing, and we say to ourselves: "It's
no use for a peowee like me to go
against a big game like that" and so
we spend our lives eating at the lunch
counter lnstoad of dining at tho club.
We're all "folks" playing the same
WiHl of a gamo, only playing it on dif
ferent scales. Now, how's your nerve?
Sir John Lubbock said ho was dis
posed to think that the readers of the
next generation will not be the lawyers
and doctors, shopkeepers and manufac
turers, but the laborers and mechanics.
Does not that seem natural?" savs
the eminent Englishman. "Ths form
work mainly with their head; when
their dally duties are over the brain
is often exhausted, and of their leisure
time much must be devoted to air and
exercise. The laborer and mechanic,
on the contrary, besides working often
for much shorter hours, have in their
worktlme taken sufficient bodily ex
ercise, and could, therefore, give any
leisure they might have to reading and
study." If the observation is true In
England, it Is especially true In this
country, where thinking Is less tram
meled by class and tradition. In
deed, the prophecy of Sir John Is in
a large way to be realized in this
country in this generation. American
workingmen are well informed. They
read and think. They invent machines.
And they are able to hold their own in
any discussion of current themes. Es
pecially is this true of skilled work
ingmen and those who exercise their
thinking in the trades unions. And
the farmers. Much of the straight
thinking of this generation Is being
done by the farmers. Conditions on the
farm are favorable to consecutive and
sound reasoning. The farmer has time
for a deliberate, long look at things,
lie has time to walk entirely round a
proposition and view it from all sides.
Ills conclusions are usually sane. In
fact, if Sir John Lubbock will examine
our history he will discover that our
"working classes" have always be
longed to our "thinking classes."
A big national bank In Chicago has
served notice that "employes of this
bank receiving a salary of less than
$1,000 a year must not marry without
first consulting the bank officials and
obtaining their approval." Officials of
the institution explain with the state
ment that it Is foolish for a man to
attempt In Chicago to support a wife,
to say nothing of a family of children,
on less than the income named. The
soulful Interest here shown by the
bank officials In the welfare of their
employes is touchingly beautiful! Yet,
It might be pertinent or maybe Imper
tinent to Inquire as to what propor
tion of Chicago families actually do
live on less than $1,000 a year. In the
absence of exact statistics, it is safe
to guess that at least half the families
of Chicago live on less than that
amount. The average Income of fam
ilies in the United States Is less than
$500 a year. It Is natural that in a
bank, where money Is the whole thing,
income should be regarded as the prime
essential of happy marriage. But, as
a matter of actual fact It Is the least
Important Who will say that the mil
lionaire, with his Immeasurable sources
of income, is happier In his home life
than the mechanic who is limited to
his $2 a day. The peal of merry laugh
ter do you bear it come from the man
sion? Or from the cottage? The ra
diant care-free look do you see it In
the face of the fine lady In her carriage
with her berlbboned and scented poodle
In her lap? Or In the face of the work
lngman's wife, who, with her babe at
her breast, and her hourly tasks, feels
that the world holds much for her
worth having? The things absolutely
essential to the happy home are
strangely few. Chief among them are
labor and love. Neither of these costs
money. But both of them often fly
from it A bank clerk does not need
to eat any more than any other work
ingman; he does not need to wear nny
more clothes; he needs no mote shel
ter; no more warmth. But he puts on
more frills and feathers. He feeds his
vanity more, which costs money. The
cost of living cannot be fixed by ny
standard. It varies from $300 a year
for some preachers to $300,000 a year
for some fashion leaders at Newport.
Even a great Chicago bank has not
power to control the financial affairs of
the humblest family. It is one of the
commonest rights of the citizens of this
blessed country to spend all they've
got. Certainly, it's a man's right, even
If he be a Chicago bank clerk, to sup
port a wife on less than $ 1,000 a year,
If the woman Is willing. The great
majority of married men in this coun
try do It. And they are the intellec
tual, moral anil political stay of the
republic.
Uketl Shorter Miles.
The late John R. Proctor, president
of the Civil Service Commission, was a
student of the University of IVnnsyl
vania In 1S03 and WtH. and in his col
lege days liked nothing bettor than to
set out early on n frosty nioriilug and
walk twcnty-ilve or thirty . miles
through the country.
Once he met an Irishman ou the road
to Morrlstown. lie and the Irishman
plodded along together a inntt.r f i.
or seven miles. They stopped and read
eacn milestone, and Proctor snld:
"I think that milestones phmr
up wonderfully, don't you?"
alth, an' I do that." said the Irish
man. "I find them a great comfort. It
would be an improvement though. If
they was nearer one another, wouldn't
To Cut a Bottle.
Here Is a way to do something you
think is impossible. You can cut off
a bottle by wrapping a cord suturated
with coal oil arould it several times
Then set fire to the cord. Just when
It has finished burning plungo tho hot
tie into cold water and tap on the end
to break it u
THE OLD AUTOGRAPH ALBUM.
Among the relics of the past,
The links of Memory's clinging chain
That, with its meshes, binds me fast
To days that cannot come again,
There is no prize more precious than
This booklet; thoughtfully I scan
Its yellow pages, scribbled o'er
By many whom I knew of yore.
Here a refrain expressing love
Beneath the picture of a dove,
And here a half sarcastic quip,
All traced In childish penmanship.
"If you love me as I love you
No knife can cut our love in two,"
'Neath that trite sentiment I see
A name once passing dear to me.
Across the past my memory flies
I see a pair of laughing eyes,
I press a little hand that lay
Within my own that summer day.
"No knife can cut our love In two."
Still, it was but an earthly strand,
And what a knife could never do
Was, as a higher power planned,
Accomplished by the reaper's hand.
O treasured names! 0 memory!
What were existence without thee?
For art thou not the magic key
With which we penetrate the seal
That locks away the musty past
And, in our leisure moments, steal
Great solace from that storeroom vast?
Bereft of thee, how man would grope
Into the future's unknown scope,
As up some storm-swept, rocky slope,
The shipwreckofl mnrinor doth crawl,
Before him dread uncertainty,
Behind, the cruel, yawning sea
And darkness hanging over all.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
rT started on the small sofa in the
II alcove beside the readlne lamD.
and there were only two people
In the room. One of them stood on
the hearth rug, with his back to the
fire, looking down on the other as she
sat fingering the manuscript on her
lap.
"Why do you want to read it?" she
asked.
"Because you wrote It" he an
swered, with great simplicity.
She frowned. "You oueht to sav.
it's because my other stories have been
so successful, and I get such nice
puffs in the papers."
"Those reasons may suffice for the
rest of the world, but they don't for
me!"
"Perhaps you expect too much!" she
saw, ana studied her manuscript
aeepiy.
"Do I?" he asked, and studied her
profoundly. The clock ticked loudly
ana the Are crackled.
"By the way!" she remarked. "You'll
be the first person to read this tnrv
of mine, so that I shall be impatient
ror your verdict!
"I'll read it to-night and report to
morrow," ne assured her, promutly.
"Does the first necessitate the sec
ond?" she asked, raising her evebrows
"As far as I'm concerned," he an
swered, lowering his, whereupon she
neia out ner story with a heavenlv
smile; but he, being of a grasping dis
position, took first the manuscript and
then the hand that held it and oh
well!
The clock ticked loudly and the fire
crackled.
Two hours later he stood In his own
front hall, turning his pockets Inside
out by the light of the midnight oil;
then he searched for the front steps
and examined the pavement outside,
and finally patrolled a certain street
to a certain house till a certain small
hour of the morning, when he re
turned to his aboue uttering unholy
words.
"What are you looking for?" she de
manded, on entering the drawing room
the next morning.
"Nothing," he answered, rising hasti
ly from an evident Inspection of the
carpet Ills face was pale, and his
searching eye roamed uneasily over
the furniture.
"I thought you might have dropped
something!" she suggested, casually.
"Oh, no!" heTesponded, deflnantly.
So she sat down on the sofa, her face
very grave, but the corner of her
mouth slightly twitching.
"Well, what do you think of it "
she Inquired.
"Oh!" he Raid, with a start. "That
story of yours? It wn tr poof
absorbing! I can assure you it kent
..... ..,.: lmul , ociock this morn
ing." "And yet It Is comparatively short
You must read very slowly! Do tell
me what you like best about It"
"Oh, well." he flounrtnroH T in.. j
all Immensely, but what appealed to
me especially was that-
where the hcrolne-er-geu the best
And. paying no heed to her blank
looks, ho hastened on Into the safe
waters of abstract literary criticism
saying: "In those few passages yS
show a breadth of view, a right an
preciation of value, a sense of the
tonal significance which, if I may be
permitted to say so. Is quite above
the average." e
He felt that be was doing well, but
j: The Tale of a Tale ij
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS
II m win i i'f " 111 11 1 I hip (
." .(iJSrt !" -- .
While the soldiers of both the Russian and Japanese armies are equip
as well as possible to withstand the terrible cold, It is impossible to entit
protect them, and this Is one reason why it is believed that land operatt
in Manchuria have been delayed. A soldier, wounded even slightly, wooli!
almost certain to die, for to He on the ground during a Manchurlan
would be fatal even In the heavy coats and other wraps worn. Every tt
Russian soldiers carry a small tent In sections, for their own accommu
tlon in the field. It stands about three feet six Inches from the ground
is supported by three poles, each In two Joints like a fishing rod. Frequet
the men pitch the tent over a hole dug in the ground and filled with stn:
For extra warmth they throw the excavated earth on the top of the can'
and put a layer of snow over all.
at this point she brought him back to
earth.
"Do you think." she asked him. ear
nest and wide-eyed, "that Gregory
ought to have done itV
"Who?" he asked, staggered for the
moment "What?" And then recol
lecting himself "Yes." This stoutly,
"I think Gregory was perfectly Justi
fied. I don't see how, under the cir
cumstances, he could have done other
wise. I am quite certain that In his
place I should have done Just the
same thing!"
"vVhat thing?" she asked, as she
poked the fire with her back turned.
Then, as he did not answer Immedi
ately, she said, gently: "I don't think
that you quite understand what scene
I referred to, but I'll show vou In a
moment, If you'll Just hand me the
manuscript."
"The manuscript?" he queried,
Diankiy.
He took two turns up and down the
room, then faced her, crimson and
crestfallen.
"I'm extremely sorry to tell you,"
he said, hoarsely, "that your manu
script Is (the arctic blue of her
froze the truth upon his lips) Is left
hehlnd," he finished. "I hope you do
not need it immediately."
"N-o-o," she admitted, "not to-day,
but I really must dispatch It to the
publishers to-morrow."
"All right," he said. ' i'll call in the
morning!"
"With the manuscript?" she asked
him, smilingly.
"With the manuscript," he echoed,
despairingly.
And as he went out of tho hmu. ,
uW uvuuu il
held a brief, Ineffectual conversation
witn the butler, nunctuatefi with
bill, and then Daced th atrut
many hours prey to thought of for
gery ana night.
It was the next morning on,i
had been talking volubly und long on
uiuereiu suDjects when she at length
inunageu to get in a word.
ell," she asked, "havo
"What?" he answered, nnifiriv "r,
measles? No! Althomrh
to think so, Judging from the way In
which you avoided me at the reception
last night, and again fit ttlA rmarn nft
erward. You wouldn't give me so
inuen as a uowl"
"I didn't see you," she told him.
"Where where was I?" h ir
rupted to explain. ln the dress cir
cle, on the opposite Biiio
glasses leveled on your box."
Inat was a wnnto c n ...
said, Impatiently, "and so Is this. What
Is the use hldlnir th truth 1 .
hy will you not acknowledge that
youve lost my manuscript?"
"Because I howtn , .
- nuBwerea.
doggedly. "No!" (As she stared at
-u ... uumzenient.) "if that mnnu
script has disappeared, vanished lrre
pnrably, you are resnonaihio ..
alone!" ' ""u ou
He strode to tho (Inn tit.. . .
1 wi., iul'U WD GO I-
lng round, faced her.
'H I forgot your story," he said.
IN A WINTER CAMP.
P
harshly, "it was because I was tt.'
lng only of you. If I was ate
minded. It was because you weref?
ent. If I er lost that manuscript'
was because, well! I suppose jf
know It I had already lost my k
That's all. Good-by!" t
And he turned to go. But she
already at his elbow, and there n
something In her hand a typewrb
parcel a manuscript. j
"It has been a pretty bad qui:
of an hour, hasn't it?" she asked t.
and her eyes were twinkling "Urn : '
to your stories and mine. But jot
not going yet?" (For he was tort
the door knob.) "It Isn't late, andt
sides" . jf,
Here she looked up at him, ait
ah, well! The clock ticked lot:
and the fire crackled! I
The Crase for Quinine. !
"The use of quinine Is grow:
apace on the part of the general pi
lie," Edward D. Drlscoll, pbarmac
tells me, "and a "large number oft
people possess a veritable craie for:;
They dose themselves with qultii
on the slightest provocation, audi;
pear to regard It as a universal cr
all. Not only Is it demanded for coif
and fevers, but for Btomach dlsorde
and a score of other ills.
"One customer of mine recently
came slightly nauseated after eatto
and he took quinine, in the full V
Hef that it would put a period to ft,
sick feeling, while another entertal,
a theory that quinine Is good for 6
kidneys and taken tho
when he fancies thoro pnvthlu
wrong with his organs. These are J'
a rew or the foolish beliefs that mac,,
People entertain reconllnff milnln. i
could quote scores of Ideas about fe
use for other physical troubles Ifi
were necessary. How such belle
nave ever sprung up I cannot Imaglw
but I know nersonn vim Ann th.
selves with quinine for everytblti
from a pain in their foot to pneunx'
nla. f
"This Is tho tlmo win,, w.hnn tor'
' - - VA J till Tl 11 1 " ,
Craze for nilinlnn'la tnnut nnHnMhV.
and I think the people ought to kiW
that while it la
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tain ailments, when taken under th
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Wlint InlllrlnilO V ...I. tnlrnn fl '
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mlscuously and for any old troub,
whatever. If the heart is weak''
heavy dose of quinine will have a b!
effect on It prouuclng palpitation .
many cases. It will also cause nea
aches, congestion in the nasal passag
and cmltA a row mho nii fit Loui'"
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