Lincoln County leader., May 06, 1904, Image 2

L1NG0LH COUNTY LEADER.
CHAB. F. ADA SOUL, Pnbs.
TOLEDO OREGON.
On the stage of life the leading lady
Is usually the cook.
A woman never tires of shopping as
long as her hair stays in curl.
In a successful matrimonial firm the
husband isn't a "full" partner.
Sermons would be shorter if they
had to be practiced before they were
preached.
War would probably be the most
horrible thing in the world if it were
not for the comic valentine.
Women of an Ohio town are build
ing a church all by themselves and
they'll probably occupy it the same
way.
Enjoy the pleasures of life when
you have a chance, or when you get
ready to enjoy them you may find
them missing.
'Localization of hostilities' and 'ad
ministrative entity" are two more de
lightfully vague verbal morsels to roll
iiuuer tue diplomatic tongue.
One advantage of depending upon
the Missouri mule in war is' that no
disguised Jap would dare to get near
enough to blow him up with dynamite.
Physicians are constantly discover
ing some popular pastime or mode of
attire that injures health. But the av
erage of human life remains about the
same.
The "limousine" is described as a
cross between an automobile and a
sleeping car. There must be something
doing when a limousine goes into a
muck pond.
We are glad to learn that this new
germ, kunzlte, Is not a mysterious af
fair at all, but Just a spodumene, some
times known as trlphane, and perfectly
harmless when not hungry.
President Roosevelt says the editor
is necessary and useful. Now let him
prepare to lose the votes of "Veritas,"
"Pro Bono Publico," "One Who
Knows" and old man "Vox Popull,"
not to mention space writers and all
egotistic correspondents to whom the
editor is always an ldlotor.
M. Roche, French ex-minister of
commerce, estimates that in the event
of a general European war France
must expend $8,000,000 per day during
its continuance. In 1871 she had to pay
not only the cost of her own armies
In the Held but to contribute a "mill
lard" of francs, or $200,000,000 as an
indemnity to Germany. For crushing
the freedom of the Boer republics, for
the dubious profits of turning uneasy
neighbors Into sullen anil impoverished
subjects, Great Britain spent upon the
South African war $20 for every acre
of the two republics. The Civil War
cost the United States the additional
of $2,700,000,000 to her public debt
It Is announced that the United
Btutes recruiting statlouss will con
tinue to accept young men 5 feet 4
Inches high as recruits and will not
for the present require them to touch
the mark at 5 feet 7 inches. It is
pleasant to know that three inches
makes not the slightest difference in a
man's ability to discharge a Krag
Jorgensen, and from time Immemorial
hasu't it been maintained that a little
man is more pugnacious than a big
one? Llttlo men are more high-tempered;
they will fight quicker and
longer. It is easy to comprehend why
they do it It Is because they won't
be "put on." They fear that you labor
under the impression that because
they are small they are not as likely
to maintain their rights with the same
firmness as a bulkier mun, and they
mean to undeceive you.
When In doubt consult your mother.
That advice applies to children, gen
erally, but It applies especially to girls.
Your mother, young woman, has had
the advantage of experience which you
lack. She knows the ways of the
world, which you do not know. You
see things from your point of view. It
is necessarily a narrow point of view.
Your mother knows. She has gone by
the way you are coming. Happy that
daughter who confides In her mother
Happy she who can go io her mother
with her little secrets and misgivings,
ner girlish hope, and fears, and talk
of these, freely assured that mother
will understand and advise tenderly
and sensibly and rightly. Hppy tllat
mother who has won and kept he
daughter-, confidence, who know, how
toportant it 1. to listen sympathetica!
n bo;vdauntW doing, and plan..
Uppy the mother who ha. not driven
ber daughter away by speaking of th.
girlish notion... "silly." and repS
delinquencies. Th. bond between
mother and daughter should n.Ve7
broken. The bond of comraderie be
tween the two is a natural one. If It
binds them together the daughter's
problems become the mother's prob
lems and the solution will be a wise
one. "A son is a son 'till he gets a
wife; a daughter's a daughter all the
days of her life" if the bond holds
true. The old song says: "A boy!s
best friend is hla mother." That's true.
But a mother is in a peculiar sense the
best friend of a daughter. And the
girl who forgets this is likely to make
a mistake In life. Ask your mother.
It begins to look as If consumption
had had Its day. Without waiting to
note what effect X-rays or any of the
new forma of light may have upon de
stroying it, it is evident that the most
serious scourge of our northern latl
tude Is already more or less under the
control of physicians. In New England,
where the registration has been fairly
accurate, the decrease of the death
rate from this disease has been 50 per
cent in the last half century, the rate
of decrease being far more rapid in
recent years. The reports from New
York are to the same effect. Where
blocks of houses were formerly infect
ed with tuberculosis conditions are so
changed that the city has been able to
reduce Its death rate from this dis
ease nearly one-half in the last twenty
years. Strange to say, cold outside
air, once fhonht to be so pcrulciuutt
to consumptives, is now regarded as
one of the best remedies. The treat
ment is heroic, but It work, for an ap
petite, and this, coupled with nourish
ing food, Is sure to make good blood,
which Is exactly what the patient
wants. In fact, cold air seems to be a
popular remedy just now for many Ills.
Not far from Wellesley College is a
hospital for crippled and otherwise de
formed children. These children are
living In a barnlike shack, and wnlle
protected from drafts they are allowed
free exposure, especially at night, to
plenty of pure, cold air. The experi
ment is novel, but so far the improve
ment in the anaemic children has been
marked. It may be that civilization
will have to take a step or two back
ward in order to advance In the right
direction; that some of the luxuries
now enjoyed by the rich are not so
desirable after all, and that health and
the happiness which comes from
health are to be bought more easily
than most of us dream.
It is no longer the fashion to blame
the dime novel for the exploits of run
away boys. Indian fighting and gold
digging are no longer the gilded paths
to glory. The up-to-date way is dif
ferent A New York letter tells that
a fond Gotham mother had her two
boys restored to her after they had
been away for two whole days. The
boys are 14 and 1G years old respective
ly. The mother blames Andrew Car
negie, Charles M. Schwab and John
W. Gates for their escapade. "They
naa been reading," she explained,
"how Mr. Schwab started in life with
a single gallus, carving cheese in a
country delicatessen Bhop, and how af
terward he made a million a minute.
Carnegie and Gates yellow literature
was also attractive to them. If Mr.
Carnegie could accumulate such a be
wildering number of millions by start
ing on a 30-cent capital, why not
they? Not having an iron works to
sell to a shipbuilding company, the
boys started to work in a laundry at
$3 a week. They were agitating a vat
of soiled clothes with a stick when
the police found them for me." Run
ning away from home to work in an
honest employment Is a good many
shades better than running off to fight
Indians or hold up stage coaches. Car
negie and Schwab are not perfect mod
els. There Is plenty in the career, of
each to be criticised. If the live, of
these two meu have any practical les
son at all for the average boy of this
commercial age, it is that the boy and
the business must grow up together,
each a part of the other. This pair of
runaway boys whom the police found
"agitating a vat of soiled clothes with
a stick" had found an opportunity and
knew what to do with It. If the police
never found boys doing worse than
this, there might be rosier hopes for
the world's future. Nobody In the
world hns as good a chance to become
a master of the laundry of business
ns the boy who is not afraid to begin
by "agitating a vnt of soiled clothes
with a stick." Here's luck to this pair
of boys and the hope that the police
may never find them lu a worse busi
ness. Too Much for Poor Io.
An Indian caught his first glimpse
of a natural gas fire a few days ago
near the territory line. He looked into
the stove and all he could see was a
pile of red-hot bricks, through the
crevices of which the blue flames were
curling. He said nothing, but before
starting home he went to a yard and
bought a lot of brick and hauled them
home. He burned up six boxea of
matches and all the dry wood bis wife
had cut trying to get the bricks to
burn and finally hauled them back and
told the yard man they were "no
good."
The average man's idea of a business
transaction is one in which he gets
ths best of the bargain, I
Russia
At a
Japan's total area la 147,669 square miles;
Russia's is 8,660,395 square mllea.
Japan's population Is 48,760,815; Bussla s
la 129,004,514.
The Japanese Empire eonalata of five prin
cipal and eleven smaller Islands; the Rus
sian Empire, exclusive of the Kwang-Tune
Province, comprises one-seventh of the land
surface of the globe. .
Japan has 14,602 towns, villages and
cities; Russia has 555,990 cities and settle
ments. Japan's total available military force
numbers 603,116; Russia'!, 4,600.000 (war
strength).
Japan's army Includes 208 battalions of
Infantry, with 7,500 officers and 193,790
men; Kusela's 1,238 battalions of Infantry,
with 63,000 officers and 8,440,000 men.
Japan's military force la equipped with
684 cannon and 61,890 horses; Russia s, 8,
500 cannon and 120,000 horses.
Japan's artillery force numbers 24,180;
Russia, 138,000.
Japan's army reserves number 76,478;
Russia's, 2,450,000. , , .
Japan's possible naval strength Includes
128 naval vessels of all klndB; Russia's 242
Japan's navy, at full war strength, !n
cludea 81,879 officers and men with 6,267
officers and men in reserve; Russia has
65,064, with 30,500 in the reserve.
Japan's navy Includes 6 battleships, 22
drmwnxj cruisers, 3 guuljuulit, 1 iorpeuu
destroyers, 88 first-class and 89 second and
third class torpedo boats; Russia's, 20 bat
tleships, 14 coast defense vessela, 24 first
class and 15 second-class cruisers and 103
torpedo craft.
The largest warship In Japan's navy, the
Mikaaa, was built In 1900, is of 15,000 tons
displacement, and carries a crew of 985
men; Russia's largest was the Cesarevltch,
destroyed by the Japs, of 18,100 tons dis
placement, and carrying a crew of 732 men.
Jnpan haa nine naval bases in the Far
East Yokosuka. Kure, Basebo, Maiaura,
Nagasaki, Kobe, Matsoual, Omlnato, Tokaa
hlka, Tsushima; Russia naa three Vladi
vostok, Dalny and Port Arthur.
Japan haa nine coaling stations Yokoau
ko, Basebo, Maliuru, Tokashika, Kobe, Om
lnato. Matsoual, Nagasaki, Kure; Russia
has three Dalny, Port Arthur, Vladivostok.
Japan's output of mineral wealth In a
year was 7,471,000 tons of coal and 24,448
tona of Iron and steel; RubbIb's, 17,612,982
tons of coal and 4,816,000 tona of Iron and
ateel.
Japan's acreage under cultivation Is 12,
315,310 acres; Russia's, 211,617,700.
Japan has a food-producing acreage equal
to one-quarter of an acre for each neau of
population; Ruasla's equals 8.8.
Japan enllsta annually 190,000 men In Its
army and navy; Russia, 810,000.
The conscription age for the army In
Japan la between 17 and 40 years; in Rus
sia all between the ages of 22 and 40 are
liable.
Japan's Infantry is armed with Mldjl
magasine rltles, holding five cartridges; Rus
rla uses the "three-line" magasine rifle,
holding Ave.
Japan's cavalry is armed with sword and
carbine; Russia's carry sword, rifle, bayo
net and lance.
Japan's form of government Is nominally
a monarchy, but really it Is nearly republi
can; Russia is an absolute monarchy.
In Japan education of the young la com
pulsory; in Russia, almost the opposite is
true.
Japan has 28,677 schools; Russia, 78,721,
Including military and naval schools.
Japan's schools aud universities are at
tended by 7,709,424 students, taught by 94,
616 teachers; Russia's schools have 3,779,
818 and 113,984 teachers.
Japan has 33 libraries, with a total of
522,004 volumes; Russia haa far less, con
ducted in connection with schools.
In one year Japan published 20,814 dif
ferent books; in Russia, 10,051 were pub
lished. In one year Japan published 829 different
periodicals (monthly, weekly and dally), a
total of 404,458,141 copies being Issued;
Russia published 743 periodicals, in 12 lan
guages. In Japan absolute freedom of religions
belief and practice is extended by the con
stitution; in Russia the Jewa especially are
persecuted.
Japan's chief forms of religion embrace
Shlntolsm, with 12 sects, and Buddhism,
with 16 sects; Ruaslu's established religion
is the Graeco-RiiBslan, officially called the
Orthodox-Catholic faith.
Japan's religion is not a state religion
and Is not supported by the state; Russia's
religion Is a state religion and the Czar Is
the head of the established church.
Japan has 191,906 shrines or churches'
Russia has 99,626 churches of all denomi
nations, exclusive of 766 monasteries, where
8,076 monks and 6,978 aspirants are housed
Japan's last budget placed the total an
nual revenues at $136,815,418 and expendi
tures at 1135,212,248; Russia's revenues to
taled 8948,516,330, the ordinary expenditure
TIME TO MOVE ON,
A Mfttn Art - .
"I cannot cur you," said Dr. Fox,
"unless you promise to An -.i.
.. ui jou. do you solemnly
promise"
"I do," replied the patient f
x
and Japan
Glance
at 1940,202,614 and extraordinary expendi
tures at uo,osi,ii.
Japan's public debt Is $208,780,994, or
$4.78 per capita of population; Russia's, $8,
167,320,000, or 124.56.
Japan's exports from the united Btates
aggregate $21,162,477 annually; Russia a,
86,504,857. ' . .
Japan's imports Into the United States
total $36,854,602 yearly; Russia's, $7,238,
120. Japan's total exports annually aggregate
$124,208,828; Russia's, $368,955,242.
Japan's total imports yearly reach a valus
of $127,396,689; Russia's, $322,583,062.
In one year In Japan 168,976 arrests for
crime are made; In Russia, 608,974.
In 1898 Japan's merchant navy Included
1,130 steamers of European type, 1,914 sail
ing vessels and 19,007 native craft; Russia's
In 1899 consisted of 657 steamers and 2,143
sailing vessels.
In 1899 Japan had 829 miles of state rail
ways and 2,602 miles of railways owned by
private companies; Russia bad 84,485 miles
of railway, of which 9,501 miles belonged to
private companies.
Passengers carried on Japan's railway in
s year totaled 98,637,117; Russia's, 83,708,
100. In 1900 Japan had 13,879 miles of the tele
graph, or 69,896 miles of wire In operation;
Russia, 98,052 or 271,024.
The total number of telegrams handle
la Juuau in. a year was 15,903,700; Russia,
19,217,238.
In 1900 Japan had 1,562 miles of tele
phone or 81,273 miles of wire; Russia had
85,800.
In 1900 Japan's postal service, including
4,404 postofflces, handled 635,886,810 letters
and parcels; Russia's handled 682,972,817
letters and parcels.
Japan la 200 miles distant from Korea;
from Moscow, Russia, the distance, as the
crow flies, is 8,200 miles.
Japan has 118 separate, or 2,022 miles of
submarine cables; Russia has 10, with a to
tal of 819 miles.
Japan's schools are non-sectarian, practi
cal, and tend to enlighten liberalism; Rus
sia's are ruled by a tyrannical religion of
which the Ciar is the head.
The number of horses in Japan at last
report was 1,587,697; in Russia, 25,354,000.
The number of cattle in Japan at the last
report was 1,230,000; lu Rusala, 87,413,-
The forests of Japan cover 17,867,766
acres; Russia, 474,000,000.
Japan's annual production of silk, cotton
aud other textiles la valued, according to
last reports, at $71,869,699; Russia's cotton
industry proper employs more than 200,000
looms and Is valued at $288,000,000 a year.
Japan's postofflces act aa savings banks,
and, according to last reports, 1,565,408 per
sons made deposits In one year aggregating
$18,900,754; in the 5,351 state, municipal
and postal savings banks of Russia 8,504,
140 depositors nut a total of $319,967,000.
The Nippon Gluko, or Bank of Japan, has
s paid up capital of $15,000,000, deposits
aggregating $3,080,884,000, loans totaling II,.
820,582,400, and eight branch offices; the
Bank of Russia haa 113 branches, capital
and reserve of more than $27,500,000, de
posits and current accounts aggregating
over $178,379,000.
Japan's Mikado Is the 121st descendant of
the Emperor Jiuimu, who founded the pres
ent dynusty In 660 B. C. ; the reigning fam
ily lu Russia descend from Michael Roman
of, elected Czar In 1613.
Tobacco yields Jnpan an annual revenue
of but $4,463,000; lu Russia there are 680
254 tobacco plantations and the manufac
ture of tobacco, cigars and cigarettes ex
ceeds 82,250 tons annually, the revenue
yielded the government being near $25,000,
000 annually.
Japan produces large quantities of sake
and soy, but little other spirits; in Russia
there are 2,0T5 distilleries, producing un
nually 2,245,700 tons of spirits, and 1,017
beer breweries producing annually 115,800.
000 gallons of beer. '
Japan secures on annual revenue of more
than $29,700,000 on spirits; Russia's totals
are more than $170,000,000.
In Japan the sale of spirits is regulated
by strict local laws; lu Russia the Crown
has a monopoly in hnudllng the sale of
spirits in many provinces, the total quan
tity of vodka sold In a year at 801 Bpirlt
depots In 20 provinces amounting to 44 665 -500
gallons.
Last reports give the total marriages In
Japan In one year at 471,217, births 1.809 -022,
deaths 894,437; In Russia 8H0.H74 mar
riages, 4,634,800 births and 3,003,047 deaths
The average height of a Japanene is 5
feet 2 Inches; of a Russian, 5 feet 8 Inches
The average weight of a Japanese is 150
pounds; of a Russian, 170 pounds.
The Japanese have no oaths in their lan
guage and never swear; the Russlana are
notorious for their iibb of expletives
The average density of the population
throughout Japan is 296 to the square
mllea; In Russia the average density, count
ing all provinces of the great empire, la but
16 per square mile.
GRAN'THER WINTER.
Many a man would be glad If hla
wif wuld talk to beraelf.
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for th.t 25 ' haTe your chec
gJJJtaf bo long - Philadelphia
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Paitatn b.
Peel half a dozen not.t
two onions; put them to coo$
pints of cold water. When bo J
fectly tender rub through . "A
back on the Are and ... 2
cun of milk, n too.r,.,,..,
- ' "-"oiwuiui as
a pinch of grated nutJ ,
pepper and salt to taste, - 0Hi
with croutons. This boud &.N": d
made much richer by blendtL
cup of cream and the yotk,,l,7ntl,
eggs, to be added just, befoihe was
ing. Aa It curdles quickly, During
be taken in adding the egn B nTei
whether
Corn Meal Gems, etrcumetl
One cup Indian meal, two aJtermlne,
two tablespoonfuls baking potata. Or
tablespoonful butter, one tables,ttempt
lard, half teaspoonful salt,
quarter cups milk, two eggs. foI
gether the meal, flour, baking pains wl
and salt; warm the milk JusUU-
melt the lard and butter; beats "My 1
light without separating, miitwo, aa
firm batter and fill well-greaisth11 T0
two-thirds full. Bake ink' n
twenty minutes. Can be eatei83rlp
Sown!"
Baked Indian Taploci, fore tb(
Mix together one-third of ,(dustriot
of White House tapioca and o:)0r!nf 1
cupful of Indian meal, and spria,
mixture into a quart of bolIIiiL Tvfl
Stir and cook Until the tapl, ha
comes transparent. Add a tif "I h
molasses, two tablespoonfula j'mtesy,"
ter and half a teaspoonful of it "Wh
turn into a buttered baking din T t0
over the top one and one-k' J1
fuls of cold milk, place in tkj? (
without stirring and bake omi, b
Jcones. morroi
Mix and sift together two cujf .f
sifted flour, four level teaspoot hin-.
baking powder, half a tableepou Jni
sugar and half a teaspoonful i ,
rub into the flour with the bX
fingers four level tnblespoonfulii
ter; then all two beaten eggsu
third cup of cream; toss on at
board; roll three-fourths of ans
thickness; cut in squares; broil,
white of ogg; sprinkle with sop
bake in a hot oven fifteen mlno .
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Frnit Pndding. '
Chop together one cup seeded::
and one cup beef suet Mlxm
molasses, one cup sweet milk, tm
teaspoons saleratus, three cupi:
salt and nutmeg. Add raisins si
and stir thoroughly. Steam threei
or more. For a sauce, take
sugar, two tablespoons flour
tablespoon butter. Stir togetfe,
creamy. Add one bowl of hot v.
stir till smooth and add nuta
taste.
Oatmeal Cookies. i'
Into four cups of flour alfti
spoonful of baking soda and It
three cups of oatmeal. Now stir n
cupfuls of powdered sugar work',
to a paste with a cupful of meltti
ter and add a teaspoonful of
Moisten with enough cold
make a stiff dough. Boll as tilt
sheet of paper, cut into cootla.
bake.
Fruit Cookies. '
Cream together one cup" butts ;
one and one-half cups sugar. Adi
cup well-washed English currautt
well-beaten eggs, three tables
sour milk, ono teaspoon sales
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Flour to roll out rather soft '
rolled -out sprinkle sugar HgM
top, roll a little and cut out and
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Pine-tin on nnnthpr nllclitlv small' le
half filled with warm water. TM'
drlDDlDI t
pel
del
boiling away or burning.
Short Bna:cstions.
Enamel cloth Is suggested
good floor covering for closet, ,
enslly fitted and also easily taW
and relald. C
To clean plaster of, pnris ornan.
cover them with a-thick coatW'
starch. Then it may be brusbd
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and bran sifted together lace
can be easily cleaned. Rub u'
ture into the soiled parts and.
out with a stick.
To remove stains on knive'
half of a raw notato. dio the col'.
in brick dust, and with it scoBf
stained knife blades. When the 0
have disappeared, polish in tb
wanner.
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" nyuu on ciouiiun ---
machine oil with cold rainwater'
aoap. This method may safely k
when other means would not be "
ble, owing to colors running, etc.
v1-ia.sj in a cooaing siu"
satisfactorily filled by a paste m
i . . tow
mi pans common wood asn -part
of table salt, mixed wltb
water. Properly mixed, it will f
lasting and will takt blacking.
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