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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1904)
'JNGOLN county leader. wns bo fine that the name of the per son who made It ought to be preserved, and has Instituted an Inquiry to learn what It was. , CHAS. T. ADA K. fiOULK, Pub. i TOLEDO OREGON. Good wives and loving ones are synonymous. Marriage is often the outcome of pos sessing a good Income. , Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown In the realm of options and futures." A true hero is a man who fights for his country and refuses to scrap with Lis wife. The "split infinitive" has not reached Japan yet At least the prep osition is never separated from its ob ject in Togo. It Is said that distance lends en chantment to the view, but the theory falls down when applied to a man's view of pay day. The Census Bureau says that there are now 8O.0CO.000 persons in the Uni ted States, but gives us no bint of how they are going to vote. One of President Joseph Smith's tons Is an expert bookkeeper. He was specially educated for the purpose of keeping the family tree. TLe Jupuiieou tuu accused of filing shells that emit poisonous gases. This is wrong. The Japs should fumigate their shells before firing. Bad news for the doctors and un dertakers. ' Two Michigan men have constructed a corn shredder and husk er which Is declared to be "on the right principle." The Washington girl who visited heaven in a trance says she saw a great many people there. Let us have something more explicit did she tee any ex-Congressmen there t The oldest locomotive engineer in the world Is getting his name in the papers. By the way, who is the oldest Mason in the world now, and why is the oldest Yale graduate keeping so quiet? The caterpillar in a month will eat about 000 times its own weight This is a pretty good record, but did you ever see Little Georgle eat his dinner after a Saturday afternoon in the base ball diamond? The Novoe Vremya says the United States Is "an insolent parvenu, stretch ing its legs over the table of Asiatic politics, seeking to make the Pacific an American Mediterranean." The Novoe Vremya ought to take something for Its liver. Justice Brewer's declaration that It is the ordinary citizen's first duty . to obey the laws is admirable, but in many cases It Is too much to expect that the ordinary citizen can know what the law really Is when the Su preme Court Itself divides 5 to 4. It was an interesting contest which the Woman's Club of Evanston, 111., recently arranged. The event was known as a science exhibition. Twen ty gold 'prizes were awarded for ex cellence in cooking, sewing and laun dering. As the contest was open to all comers, mistress and maid competed side by side, and there were success ful competitors in both classes. An other pleasing event was the award ing of certificates to all servants who had worked for the same mistress from three to five years, and medals to all those who bad held the same situation for ten years. Hawaii is rapidly losing Its native population, according to the reports in the "Hawaiian Annual for 1004." Cap tain Cook, who discovered the group of islands in the eighteenth century, estimated the population at two hun dred thousand. In 1872 the number bad fallen to fifty thousand; and there were only thirty thousand In 1900. The Japanese population to-day is greater than was the total population thirty years ago, and the present total popu lation Is about fifty thousand less than Captain Cook found, Li t It is increas ing almost as rapidly as that of a boom city in the West A young man from Washington Ter ritory was shipwrecked on, the coast of Japan a little more than fifty years ago. When the Japanese discovered him they put him in prison for enter ing the country without first asking permission. Then they asked him as to the, relative rank of oflicers in the United States. He told them that the oflicers in the navy had to obey the Secretary of the Navy, and that ths Secretary had to obey the President "Who is greater than the President?" they asked. The youth replied, "The people are greater than the President;" and in telling of the incident afterward be said that 'the Japanese could not understand this at all. The chaplain of ths Senate thinks that this reply Canada needs population. She has almost everything else that nature I could bestow on a land, but she has lacked people. Some figures made pub I lie by the Canadian Department of the ! Interior show that the country is slow . ly but surely filling up with a fine class of citizens, and nearly all of them go ! to the farms. Last year companies holding land grants sold land worth over $14,000,000, and comprising 4,229, 011 acres. This equals the amount sold in the preceding ten years. There were 32,682 homestead entries, as com pared with 1857 in 1890. The home stead entries covered 5.021,280 acres of land, and the total land acquired for settlement in the year was 9,387,561 acres. The Canadians justly boast of the fact that the settlers are not the scum of Europe. Many travel second class and are well supplied with funds. The steerage occupants are steadily de creasing, and Canada feels that'she Is getting the pick of the new population that Is leaving Europe for more hos pitable shores. The immigrant Influx last year numbered 128,364. Of these 41,792, or almost a third, came from the United States. '-' I ' M It is the commonest thing in the world to see most of the people you know young and old taking sides in a conmct like that which is now rag ing In the far East The division of sentiment in tie avcraga American town may Just at present be unequal, for if the newspapers from all over the country are to be believed, the sympathy of our people Inclines rather toward Japan than toward Russia. There is intelligent partisanship in such matters, and there is unintelli gent From the very nature of the case, the unintelligent variety is far in excess of the other. It is not the pur pose of these words to present the case of the Buss or the Jap, or to argue that one or the other Is in the right and deserves to win. It is rather to bespeak a neutrality in private like that which the President has pro-.) claimed as the public policy of the United States. There are few private persons so well informed through newspapers and public documents that they can grasp all the points at issue. Indeed, the better Informed among such reading persons are the very ones ' who appreciate the magnitude of the problem, and refrain from rushing into the places where angels fear to tread. There are thoughtful men in America and England who have to confess to i themselves that, born in Russia or Ja pan, they could honestly follow the flag of either country, and fight for Czar or Mikado according to their own nativity. The fact Is that great con tending forces in the complete scheme of human progress have met, and the meeting is an unspeakable tragedy. It becomes a modest man to stand with bared head before it and pray the i God of battles to bring the conflict to a BDeedy and righteous end. HUMANITY'S DEBT TO THE UNITED STATES By John W. roMfr, Zx-Sccrotarr ot Statu. By its steady championship of a freer commerce and of most elevated principles of conduct in war, the United States has brought about an almost complete change in the practice of na tions. There still remain to be incor porated into international law one of the principles announced by the found ers of our government and steadily ad vocated up to this day the exemption from seizure of private property on the sea in time of war. johw w. fosteb. As our country from its earliest his tory led the nations of the earth in creating a more ele vated system of international law, so also it has been the most active in adjusting international controversies and preserving peace by means of treaties of arbitration. Th first treaty negotiated after the srganlzatlon of onr govern-J ment under the constitution the Jay treaty of 1794 with Great Britain marked a distinct advance in the practice of nntions and sought to ameliorate the harshness of war and to establish more clearly neutral rights. The only Instance in our history where fraud and cor ruption have been established against an arbitration tri bunal was that with Venezuela under the treaty of 1866. Soon after the adjournment of the commission charges of irregularity and fraud on the part of Its members were made at Washington by the Venezuelan Government, and nn investigation established to the st!?tton of Cnnyp the fact that a corrupt arrangement had been made be tween the American commission, the umpire (a Venezue lan, the United States minister In Venezuela and his rela tive, the leading attorney before the commission, by which a large part of each claim represented by the attorney and allowed by the commission was to be divided between the persons named. After considerable delay in securing legis lation a new commission was organized, which reviewed the work of its predecessor. Of the twenty-four cases al lowed by the first commission only nine were passed on favorably, and three old cases rejected were allowed by the new commission, representing more than half of the total awards. . Secretary Shaw of the Treasury De partment said recently that there seems to be no place for the boys. The bn be a iid the man are welcome, and the girl, by her winsome ways, makes a place for herself In the homes; but almost the only door that swings with a sure welcome for the boy opens into places where the boy ought not to go. Mr. Shaw said he knew of few homes to which boys are Invited. Boys have muddy feet and play noisy games. They like dogs and horses, goats and guinea pigs, and do not always re member that the parlor was not fur nished for use as a dog house. Every mother knows this; but how many fathers and mothers would have their boys less fond of animals than they are, or less liberally endowed with healthy, rollicking spirits? The pur pose of Secretary Shaw's remarks will doubtless be accomplished when the at tention of parents is directed to the work in progress for developing boys into all-round men. In the cities, espe cially, Is this work done. Not only are the trades taught to boys in day and nisht schools, but schools are inuin tained In the vacation season to occu py' the attention of those who might otherwise be in mischief. Moreover, the boys who come In contact with the police are not sent to Jail with hard ened evil-doers so frequently as a few years ago. The authorities assume, with good reason, that the boys are not bad, but only misled, and that they will make good citizens If they have half a chance. The unruly boy in the country is not receiving so much at tention as in the city. He has fewer evil places of resort than his city broth er, but enough for his purposes if he is seeking them. Yet on the whole, the boys of America, In town or country, are wholesome creatures. They could be improved if their elders would give more time to providing amusement for them in surroundings that are not vicious. INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT "DRV BONES." Br Dr. Aairew Wilson. With bone is usually associated the idea of dryness not merely in a physical sense, but in an Intellectual sense as well. The medical stu dent who has to acquire a knowledge of the bony framework has been said to travel in the "valley of dry bones," and as the osseous belongings we may see in our museums are certainly of the des iccated order of things, the familiar epithet seems Justifiable enough. .Yet bone, which may appear uninteresting to the casual observer, presents us with a singular; interesting history, not merely in respect of its structure but likewise In conection with its growth and development Bone is not all phosphate. This is its mineral side, giving is a strength and solidity which Is more than equal to that of good solid oak. The other side of its composi tion wo find to be represented by gelatine. This last is the animal basis of bone. When the cook bolls bones it is for the sake of obtaining the gelatine, and we know that the boiled bone has a whitened aspect different from that of the natural structure, because its mineral constituents alone are left If we wished to reverse the process and to remove the mineral matter of our bone, leaving the gela tine, we should place It In a solution of some weak add. This last would eat away and dissolve the living material, but would leave the gelatine untouched. Then we should meet the Interesting spectacle of seeing the formerly hard, dense bone becoming as elastic as possible, so flexible in deed that we might tie it In a knot It is when poor little children, badly fed for the most part -do not receive a sufficient supply of phosphates that they develop bone deformities that are piteous to behold. An argument this, of powerful kind, that all mothers should be Instructed in the principles of physiology, In so far, at least as the proper feeding of their children Is concerned. If we cpuld lift all the living matter out of a layer of bone it would present us with the appearance of an ani mated spider's web. A bone lives, in all its parts, and is neither the dead nor the dry thing which popular notions credit it to be. But bones grow old as does every bodily possession of ours. They lose their elasticity, as it were, in old age. The gelatine diminishes, and with this change -the bones become more brittle In-nature, rendering fracture a more likely accident in the old person than in his young er neighbor. Strong and dense as bone may be, It is still subject to the universal law which decrees that llfs and living things have each their "little day." THE COUNTRY VERSUS THE CITY BOY. Br Joka it. rinttr. ot new fork. The chances of the city born boy are greater than those of the country born. If you knew about the life of the country boy, how he has to fj I sleep in an unheated room in winter with the t'J I temperature degrees below zero and in the sum mer time work in the fields in the sun from ten to fourteen hours a day, you would probably se that the city boy has an immense advantage. They tell you that the hard work of the coun try boy makes him a splendid man physically. Of the coun try boys I knew full one-half are under the sod they plowed or are old men in the village streets at the age ot 40. I believe that the best man is developed through asso ciation and struggle, and not in the country solitude. The farmer's boy is caught in the endless circle where- -he raises corn In an endless chain of anxiety, but the.clty ' boy of New York has the history of the world, as a les- son, and the voices of the greatest men within the reach of his ears rather than the cricket and the country night sounds. There are dirty streets and dark rooms in the city, but they are illuminated by ambition, and even these dirty streets are as dear in after years as the country Is t the successful farmer's boys. American Boy. JAPAN'S RELATION TO THE PHILIPPINES. Br Baron Kaneko, ot Japan. Japan is a small country with a large popula tion, and if we can manufacture for sale there and in China the things necessary for Oriental life we will become an exceedingly prosperous nation, for our land has reached the limit of agricultural production. The question with us Is. Can the Philippine Islands produce a sufficient quantity of those raw materials to warrant us not only in Increasing the capacity of our mills and in building new ones, but in making some reciprocal arrangements with the United States which would give a preference to the products of the Philippines over those of Java, Borneo, Sumatra and other Oriental countries. The Philippine Islands have only been scratched, so to speak, and out of the 68,000,000 acres of agricultural lands the Philippine commission states that only about 5,000.000 acres have been Indifferently farmed, while from my own observations in the Islands I should say that not more than one-third of the land occupied by farms are now being cultivated. 2 At Breakfast. "Rubber is going up." "Good enough; I hope it will get so high that butchers can't afford to put it in the beefsteaks." Cincinnati Com mercial Tribune. T8I AN A REMARKABLE WOMAN. For Forty Years the Ruling Spirit of Chinese Empire, The reported death of the Empress Regent Tsi An, at the age of 70. di rected attention to the extraordinary career of a woman who for more than forty years has been the ruling spirit of the Chinese Empire,. although for more than 4,000 years the native preju dice against the exercise of authority by the fair sex had been but twice overcome. Had she been a descendant of Confucius, or the Ming dynasty, which preceded ths present reigning family, or a high-born Manchu, her rise to autocratic power would have been more Intelligible. As a matter of fact she began life under grave dis abilities, being of humble origin, though her parents are said to have been Manchus. Adopted by a Manchu family of considerable means, she was trained in the accomplishments which the Chinese prize In women, but her Intellect owed nothing to the Influence of an invigorative education. She got her opportunity when she became a member of the household of the Empe ror Hion Fung, who reigned from 1850 to 1861. She had no son by him, but strange to say, she commended herself so strongly to the Empress Dowager, the mother of Tung Che, the next sov eregln, that during bis long minority the two women ruled conjointly, as Empresses of the East and of the West On Tung Che's death, they raised to the throne his Infant cousin, who atlll ostensibly reigns under the name of Kwang Su. Since the death of her feminine co-regent In 1881, Tsl An has been the real mistress of China, except during a brief Interval, when Kwang Su, having attained his majority, was permitted temporarily to rule, and allowed an inclination to re organize the Chinese system of educa tion on Western principles. The inno vation was quickly stopped by a palace revolution, and during the last few years Kwang Su has been merely a figurehead, the Empress Tsl An having been recognized not only by all Chi nese officials, but also by all the treaty powers, as regent Harper's Weskly. The visitor called the little 4-vear- old girl to his knee and in his most winning tones asked her name. She put her finger in her mouth and said nothing. "Tell the gentleman, darling," said ths ifond father. Ths little one, without removing the finger, said something that sounded like a quotation In Sanskrit "What?" ejaculated the visitor. "She says Its Mary Jane Edith Bar ker Maud Jaol Jackson," interpreted ths father. . . "Great Peter!" exclaimed the visit or. "What on earth possessed you to put ail that on the child?" "Well," said the father, "It wasn't altogether my fault, but it was the first one, you know, and there was no end of fuss naming it Of course, my wife's mother wanted It named for her and I naturally didn't want to slight my own mother. And Aunt Jael Simp son took a great notion to the kid' and we thought she might do something for her If we gave it her name. Edith Thompson was my wife's dearest friend on earth and she Insisted on be ing its god-mother the baby's, I mean. Uncle Barker was dead set on its be ing a boy and called Hezeklah. We were thankful it wasn't but we called it Barker by way of a compromise." "I hope they were all pleased." "Well, no, they were not" said the fond parent "Aunt Jael was miffed because her name was strung on last and all the rest of them didn't like it because their names were mixed up with the others. Uncle Barker thought 'Hezzie' would have been a neat and appropriate diminutive. There was a good deal of unpleasantness about it, to tell the truth." . "What's the other little toddler called?" asked the guest, after a few moments' thoughtful silence. "Sarah," replied the father, prompt ly. Chicago Daily News. A. Persian Poet's Wit. The following amusing story is told regarding the Shah's relations with his poet laureate. On one occasion the Sbah read to him one of bis own poems and asked for his opinion: "Even if I deserve your majesty's anger," said the candid poet, "I must say that it Is anything but poetry." The Shah, feeling Insulted, cried out to those who waited on him: "Take this ass to the stable." After a little while, becoming calm er, he tried the poet once more, this time with a fresh set of verses. When he had finished reading the poet start ed to go away. "Where are you going?" asked the Shah. "TO the Stflhlo VAn m..l. H U . "iajcDljr, WB9 the reply of the poet. This time the Shnh enjoyed the Joks and the poet was forgiven. Easily Found In the Dark. He I think I ought to take a hot foot bath. Where is the mustard? She Out in the pantry. He Pshawl It's dark out there and I haven't got a match. She You don't need a natch to lo cate it It's right alongside of tha Llmburger cheese. Philadelphia. Press.