Lincoln County leader., July 08, 1904, Image 2

LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER.
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TOLEDO ..OREGON.
Stockholders In a fire Insurance com
pany have money to burn.
No man reaches the stage of tri
umph but by the steps of trial.
Those Spanish anarchists shoot like
a woman operates a garden hose.
When misfortune reaches a man's
door she walks right In without knock
ing. Ilobson's plea for a "greater nary
ought to make a profound Impression
over In Russia.
When a man gets a letter from his
wife during his ab-enoe from home he
simply reads the postscript and sends
her a check.
Of course Mr. Carnegie wouldn't
consider for a moment any applica
tion from those Mormon heroes with
numerous wives.
The United States Minister to Santo
Domingo will have a salary of $5,000
a year, but will have to pay his own
board and accident Insurance.
"The world is all wrong," said one
of the Chicago bandits. But the Chl
co bandit wer hnngod, which
shows that the world is trying to right
Itself.
Probably a shortening of our po
litical campaigns Is one of the earthly
Impossibilities, but it would be a good
thing If they were materially con
densed. The mayor of an Ohio town has
resigned because he found that he
couldn't hold the Job and live up to
his religious belief. Some mayors will
wonder if his religious belief pays him
a salary.
The careful, conservative plodder
who makes fifteen or twenty millions
In stock during five or six years al
ways has the utmost contempt for the
simpleton who loses his mony fooling
With a get-rich-qulck scheme.
A man who had $2,000,000 and who
was heir to a lot more committed
suicide in Chicago the other day. No
doubt he could, if he had dared to do
so, have given the world some im
portant particulars tending to prove
that "money Is not all."
King George III. was born in 1738
and died in 1820. His grandson, the
late Duke of Cambridge, was bom
In 1819 and died in lOiM. These two
lives spanned a period of one hun
dred and sixty-six years, lacking a
few months. Two other lives cov
ering an equal period before 1738
would carry us back to the early days
of Queen Elizabeth.
One of the largest Imports from
Russia Into America Is willow clothes
baskets. The huge hampers so com
monly in use In this country are nearly
all made in central Russia by peas
ants, although some come from the
Danube Valley, and there is a con
siderable domestic manufacture. The
Importation this year will be about
one million do'lars' worth. Osier wil
low, from which they are made, has
been worked by the Russian peasants
for centuries, and was formerly the
material from which they wove their
houses. The method of cutting, peel
ing, twisting and manipulating the
withes Is handed down from' father to
son.
Speaker Cannon told Representative
Llttlefield, In one of the closing weeks
of the session, that he would be rec
ognized on a certain small bill which
he hoped to get through, but not be
fore Saturday. Events so shaped them
selves, however, that the Speaker got
round to this bill earlier than he ex
pected, and on Friday announced In
conventional phrase: "The gentle
man from Maine is recognized," finally
adding Mr. Littlefleld's name. But he
was not there. When hurried into the
chamber from an adjoining room, Mr.
Llttlefield was met by the customary
question, "For what purpose does the
gentleman rise?' Somewhat surprised
by the suddenness of It all, Mr. Llt
tlefield waggishly asked, "For what
purpose Is the gentleman recognized?"
an expression new in the Congres
sional procedure, but well suited to the
occasion. The bill was passed the next
day.
President Roosevelt makes a nat
ural and reasonable comment when he
notes that the men killed on the Mis
souri, while they were fitting them
selves to fight effectively In case of
need, "died for their country 'as much
as If their ship had been In action
against the enemy." The criticism of
all such observations Is that they seom
to Imply that a man who dies in any
other way than as a member of the
army or navy does not die for his
country. Take, for instance, ths cam
of the diver who risked his Ufa and
lost it the other day in a work of great
public utility. Didn't he die for his
country? He died in the performance
of duty, at any rate, and why is not
that for the country as much as dyin
In a gun turret? Or those other divers
who came near death in trying to res
cue the comrade. Why was not theirs
a deed with the element of patriotism,
in that it was for a noble end? Or Is
there a distinction between dying for
one's country and dying for humanity,
and. If so, which Is the superior?
The world has moved rapidly In a
hundred years In the matter of physi
cal training for girls. Thackeray tells
us that when the nineteenth century
was In Its teens, the excellent Miss
Pinkerton, of the Academy for Young
Ladies, on Chiswlck Mall, gave as
parting advice to her favorite pupil
the Injunction that she should make
a careful and unremitting use of the
backboard for four hours dally for the
succeeding three years, if she would
acquire that dignified deportment and
carriage so requisite for every young
lady of fashion. The backboard has
gone out, and perhaps the dignified de
portment and carriage have gone with
It One hardly dares think how the
majestic Miss Pinkerton would have
regarded the present regime in school
for girls. The painful repose of the
backboard has been succeeded by a
complicated system of exercise. There
Is a long dally walk. There are gym
nastics for fifteen minutes once a
day. Swimming in summer and skat
l:;g In winter harden the muscles and
teach endurance. Golf or basket-ball
or tennis adds the charms of com
petition and the value of self-control
to the development of muscle and
nerve. The girl who tiptoes about In
high-heeled shoes, and whose corset
prevents her from Tunning or Jump
ing or breathing deep and full Is to
day out of fashion. It remains to be
proved that athletics may go hand in
hand with gracious and gentle man
ners as the backboard undoubtedly
did. But there seems to be no inher
ent conflict between vigor and grace,
and the twentieth century .may con
trive ways to unite them in its strong,
healthy young girlhood.
Katherine Pope writes an interest
ing essay on the advantages of deceit,
or the use of tact,-in the Reader Mag
azine that is mostly several stories to
Illustrate her point. The introduction
is: "Men, whether deservedly or not,
are accounted more truthful, less given
to deceiving ways, than women. I
sometimes wonder If their women in
timates never tell them that not In
frequently this lauded honesty of
theirs looks to the less blunt sex most
undesirable, not to say grossly stupid,
grossly brutal." The common confu
sion of lying with tact may easily be
carried too far. There may be some
tact in some lying, but there Is no
lying in true tact. The highest tact
Is absolute truthfulness. There are
little lies that seem Justifiable. You
see an ill friend who looks worse and
tell him he looks better. It makes him
feel better. Maybe he actually be
comes better as a result. It is a lie
that does nobody harm and does some
good. But there are few lies that
have so good a motive. If we told no
lies except to help other people this
would be a strangely truthful world.
We pay compliments to please others,
but the ulterior motive Is to ingn
tlate ourselves Into their affection.?.
We make ourselves agreeable by reign
ing feelings and opinions that we do
not really possess. We try to make
ourselves liked not for what we really
are but for what we only pretend to
be. Now, It would be far better tact,
and far easier, to be than it is to pre
tend to be. By pretense we go a long
way around to reach a point that by
sincerity we might reach by a direct
route. And while by mere pretense we
may win the respect of others for
a while, by sincerity we win the far
more valuable respect of ourselves for
all time. Besides, it Is not at all nec
essary to He in order to pay compli
ments. Even the worst of people have
good qualities that may be truthfully
commended. True tact consists In be
ing generous with the truth. It Is
commonly snld that men are more
truthful than women are. It Is per
haps due to their business training, as
well as to the fact that mey are not so
subject to petty Impulses and spites.
When a man lies he generally does it
straight from the shoulder. The wo
man generally "libs" without knowing
exactly why she does it, follows the
first fib with another and another to
cover it, and ends in believing at least
half of them.
A Father's Ambition.
"Yes," said the new acquaintance.
"I'm a member of the bar."
"Well, well," exclaimed Popley,
"I'm glad I met you. I've been think
ing some of making a lawyer of my
boy."
"I'll be glad to help the young man
if I can. Er what's his name?"
"Oh, we haven't named him yet ITe
only arrived last week." Philadelphia
Press.
Lots of people would rather send a
dollar to the heathen than give the
poor at horn a pleasant look.
science
Natural causes sometimes . bring
about a sudden lowering of the heads
of lofty mountains, but perhaps there
Is no record of the operations of man
having achieved such a feat except in
the case of the vast rock-slide at Tur
tle Mountain, In the province of Al
berta. Canada, on April 29, 1903. The
mining town of Frank was overwhelm
ed, and the height of the mountain was
reduced as much as 1,000 feet The
fall resulted from the honeycombing
by miners of a 10-foot seam of coal
penetrating the base of the mountain.
From recent photographs, the cra
ters and craterlets of the moon are es
timated to number more than two hun
dred thousand, but less than a million.
White patches In some craters and the
bright lines radiating in some cases
hundreds of miles are thought by Pro
fessor Pickering to be due to snow,
and the less conspicuous lunar canals,
which gradually appear, Increase and
fade away In the lunar day, are at
tributed by the same authority to vege
tation. A thin atmosphere of carbonic
acid and water vapor may feed the
plants.
n. W. Conn, the bacteriologist of
Storrs, Conn., says that while milk at
70 degrees Fahrenheit may keep not
longer than forty -eight hours, at 50 de
grees Fahrenheit it may not curdle for
two weeks. At 50 degrees the ordi
nary milk organisms increase very
slowly; but on the other hand, the
putrefaction bacteria continue to de
velop rapidly, and while they may not
sour the milk, nevertheless they make
It unwholesome. For this reason Mr.
Conn says that milk which has been
kept sweet by a low temperature
should be viewed with suspicion.
The demands of automobile manu
facturers for a metal able to sustain
extraordinary pulling and twisting
strains have led to the invention in
France of a new alloy, which is called
"formetal." It contains. In addition to
the usual constituents of bronze and
brass, a mixture of other metallic ele
ments, which contribute great power
of mechanical resistance. It is also
said to be unalterable by the effects of
exposure to the air, and it resists the
attack of weak acids. It can be drawn
In bars or rolled and forged. Nuts
and screws made of it are unoxidlz
able. The fact that compression or bend
ing causes a substance to emit N-rays
has suggested to M. D. Lepinay that
vibrations producing sound should
have the same effect as the sounding
body undergoes slight but rapidly re
peated strains. Experiments with a
tuning fork, a bronze bell, a large steel
cylinder and a siren proved this to be
true, and the phosphorescent screen
showed that the air also produces as
well as transmits the rays. Another
investigator, M. Meyer, has discovered
a similar radiation in vegetable tissue,
the green parts of the plant giving the
most intense effect
The ether is the supposed medium,
filling all space and Interpenetrating
all bodies, by which the waves of light
and other forms of radiant energy are
transmitted. Many theories of the na
ture of the ether have been proposed.
The latest comes from the famous
chemist, Mendeleef, who thinks the
ether may be a chemical element, so
light that the velocity of its molecular
vibrations is sufficient to render it In
dependent of gravitation. If Its ato
mic weight is supposed to be one-mil-Honeth
of that of hydrogen, It is be
lieved it could escape the attraction
of the largest bodies in the universe.
Mendeleef proposes for It the name
newtonium.
RUSSIA'8 CANAL SCHEME.
Mammoth Project to Connect the
Black Sea with the Baltic.
The war with Japan Is rousing Rus
sia to the execution of a great public
work long planned and long neglected
that Is, the canal which is to connect
the Black Sea with the Baltic. At the
present moment the need of such a
canal Is obvious. In this one year of
storm and stress It might well be
worth to Russia more than its entire
cost; for with such a waterway open
Russia could snap her fingers at the
prohibition at the Dardanelles. Her
Black Sea fleet could make Its exit Into
the Baltic, and thus be available for
service In the Far East, instead of
lying idle In the hour of urgent need.
That Russia did not construct this
canal long ago Is doubly strange, first,
because of the many years that the
Dardanelles has been barred against
her warships, and, second, because of
the ease with which It can be made.
The total distance from sea to sea Is a
long one, 1,408 miles; but the actual
canal will be only sixty-six miles long,
the rest of the way being traversed on
the Dnelper and Dwlna rivers. These
rivers will have, of course, to be deep
ened, locks will have to be constructed
and much other work done. But there
Is no mountain ridge to be crossed, and
no serious engineering problems of any
kind appear. The cost 1 estimated at
$180,000,000, an enormous sum. But !t
will give Russia a connection, through
her own territory, between the Black
Sea and the Baltic, making the Black
Sea an open sea to her while closed to
the rest of the world, and it will en
able her to send her biggest warships
through from Odessa to Riga.
For the purpose of this war such a
canal would be comparable in value
with the Siberian Railroad itself. For
geeural purposes, in times of peace, it
would doubtless prove of great value.
The North Sea and Baltic Canal is now
seen to be Invaluable to Germany. The
wisdom of constructing the Manches
ter ship canal has been vindicated
many fold. Increased and enlarged
canal facilities across Scotland are
planned, and France is seriously con
sidering plans for a ship canal from
the Mediterranean to the Bay of Bis
cay. The neglect Into which canals
fell for a time with the development of
railroads Is now seen to have been a
mistake; for all the land transportation
In the world cannot do away with but
only increase ocean traffic, and the lat
ter demands the shortest and easiest
water passage from one sea to another.
Suez and Panama will always be the
greatest two canals In the world, but
there are and there will be others of
great importance, both national and
international, and of these this Rus
sian canal may be one of the foremost
in value to Its owner and In influence
upon the world.
DO WE EAT TOO MUCH?
Vegetarian Not Worried Over High
Frice of Heat.
Many scientific investigators of the
average diet of civilized people long
ago arrived at the conclusion that most
people eat too heartily, says the New
xork Tribune. Professor Chittenden.
of New Haven, after his extensive ex
periments In feeding soldiers from the
regular army on schedules carefully
thought out and regulated, may be
able to throw some further light upon
tnis important everyday subject of dls
cussion In families. Heads of house
holds In great numbers, who find it a
diflicult task to meet their bills at the
grocery shops and the markets, may
discover reason for rejolclne. Drovlded
it Is made indisputably plain that peo
ple are really eating too much. It is
to be hoped that among the men of
leading and of light in this department
of science something like an agreement
or opinion may be obtained.
How far should the cravings of
nealthy, lively children, who get plenty
of opportunities for playing In the ODen
air, be gratified? The food of the
iirinsn soldiers In South Africa proved
that a moderate allotment of Jam as a
touch of sweetening to the rations
cheered the spirits of the soldier and
made him flght harder than If he had
been an absolute stranger to such an
indulgence. In the struggle in the
iiast the commissariat has not been
overbountlful to the rifle bearers on
either side. The Japanese soldiers live
chefly on rice and dried fish. The Rus
sian infantry and cavalry demand a
more liberal diet
Moderation in eating ought to result
in cutting down the extremely high
prices of meat and fish which are now
current in our principal cities. People
who take only one or two meals each
day and there are many of them
and the devotees of the exclusive con
sumption of vegetable food feel a cer
tain sentiment of compassion for the
devourers of big repasts three times
a day, and are not greatly worried
over the high prices of fleshly luxlries.
- An Oriental Stratagem.
Many a man has failed to guess an
easy riddle because the simple solu
tion looked like a trap to him. V. C.
records an instance in which this
trait of human nature was cleverly
played upon by a Japanese nobleman.
The old lord had been forced to flee
with only three hundred men before an
enemy with ten thousand, and barely
had time to reach his castle ahead of
his foes. There were no re-enforcements
near at hand, and he knew that
if an attempt was made to storm his
defenses he and his men would be
dead before help could come.
The enemy's forces advanced rapid
ly, and scouts rode up near the castle
to reconnolter. To their amazement
they found the gates, doors and win
dows open, and all the appearance of
a holiday celebration. They rode has
tily back to inform their master that
the foe was dancing, and that bands
were playing music in the castle.
The powerful enemy was too wise a
man to put his head into any such a
trap as that The defenders of the
castle must have some plan to slaugh
ter his forces by wholesale, or they
would never Invite him In that way.
He drew back a safe distance, and en
camped to await developments.
Soon the re-enforcements for the
castle came up behind, attacked him
suddenly and defeated him, while the
garrison which had risked all on Its
strategem charged him on the other
side.
Looking for Change.
Church Why do so many of the
Wall street men go to the mountains
In summer?
Gotham Oh. to get away from the
water, I suppose, Yoakers Statesman.
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Friar'a Soap.
Cut up very finely any fresh vege
tables such as carrot, turnip, an onion,
two leeks, some celery and the heart of
a small cabbage. Put them into a
saucepan, with four ounces of butter
or good beef dripping, and one ounce
of brown sugar. Sprinkle them with
pepper and salt, and cook them gently
for about twenty minutes. Then add
a pint and a half, or rather more, of
weak stock or water, and let all boll
gently for an hour. Fry some bread,
and serve as croutons of dice with the
soup, which has been placed in a hot
tureen.
Bread.
Work Into a quart of flour a table
spoonful of shortening, wet with a
quart of warm water, add a table
spoonful of sugar and a half yeast
cake dissolved In warm water. Beat
hard for ten minutes, then cover and
set aside all night In the morning
work in two quarts of salted flour,
kneading for ten minutes. Cover and
set to rise for four or six hours, or
until light Make into loaves, knead
ing each of these for five minutes.
Cover with a cloth and when very
light bake.
Fig- Pudding.
Put Into a bowl a cup each of fine
bread crumbs and milk and stand for
an hour. Add a quarter-cupful of
powdered suet, a half-cup of granu
lated sugar, three eggs, beaten light,
and cinnamon and nutmeg to taste.
Last of all, stir In a cupful of minced
figs well dredged with flour. Turn
Into a greased pudding mold with a
closely fitting top and boll for about
three hours. Turn out and eat with,
a hard sauce.
Plain Sponge Cake.
Into the beaten yolks of five egg
stir a cupful of sugar and a teacup.
ful of flour that has been sifted three
times with a teaspoonful of baking pow
der. Beat for at least fifteen minutes,
before adding a teaspoonful of lemon
Juice, and then fold In lightly the
stiffened whites of the eggs. Bake Im
mediately In a loaf-tin in a good oven
for about three-quarters of an hour.
Strawberry Ice Cream.
Place a pint of cream in a saucepan
with half a pound of sugar and set
over the fire to heat; when the sugar is
dissolved stand aside to cool; add an
other pint of cream. Mash a quart and
a pint of ripe strawberries with half a
cupful of sugar and let stand an hour;
then strain the Juice off. pour into the
cream, mix well and turn Into the?
freezer.
Almond Nongat.
Boll together a-pound of sugar and a
half gill of water until the syrup is
brittle when dropped in cold water.
Cover the bottom of a well-buttered tin
with shelled and blanched almonds
split In half. When the candy is (Tone
add to It a teaspoonful of lemon juice
and pour it upon the nuts in the pun
When it cools cut Into squares.
Oatmeal Bread,
Set a sponge overnight, as for white
bread, and In the morning work lnto
It two cups of oatmeal, with a tea
spoonful of molasses. Knead long and
hard and set to rise. When very light
make into loaves and set In a warm
place for an hour or until light Bake
in a steady oven. Cover with paper
the first half-hour.
To Remove a Tight Qlaaa Stopper.
Wrap round very hot razs or flan
nel, wrung out of boiling water; or
pour a little salad oil on the top and
let It remain a week, then Dour mora-
oil and let it remain; when the oil
has soaked between the bottle and
stopper it will come out so easily thnr
if the bottle be turned up, the stopper
may De sua ken out
Layer Cake.
Cream a cup of butter with Urn.
cups of prepared flour. Work to a
cream, add a cup of milk and tlm
yolks of six eggs, well beaten. Now
rold in the stiffened whites of the eggs
alternately with a pound of nrpiinrmi
flour or enough to make a good cake-
batter. Bake in layer tins.
Soft Soap.
Mir together ten pounds of
slx pounds of washing soda and eight
gallons of water. Stand for th
four days, stirring with a wooden pad
dle every day. If too thick add more
water. When the arrecse Is nil h.
sorbed or incorporated with the mix
ture It Is ready for use.
Grape Fruit Salad.
Peel the grape fruit and divide each
lobe Into four parts, removing all the-
whlte membrane. Lay on leaves of
lettuce, and pour over all a rich may
onnaise dressing. Serve very cold.