Lincoln County leader., July 22, 1904, Image 2

UKCDLH CQUHTT LEADER.
factions to tie soap ad can and the
tnrr.rr.er resort reading public.
The chief of tie Philadelphia fire
department Las published a set of
rules -la Case of Fire." They ought
to be learned ty heart, like tie multi
plication table, so that when needed
they will spring automatical! to the
mind. First sound the alarm. Close
the door and open the windows. A
closed door la a wonderful protection
against Came; an open window leu the
beat and smoke out. Do not fear thick
smoke too much. Go down on your
hands and knees yon will find no
smoke near the Coor. Nine times out
of ten yon can descend a stairway so.
Many fcaTe been burned to death be
cause they thought a smoke-filled stair
way meant an Impassable one. There
Is plenty of pure air to breathe near
the Coor. Should the fire Lave gained
such headway that all exits are block
ed, shut yourself In a front room and
lean far out of the window, so that
the firemen can see you. Once they
see you. It is reasonably sure they will
rescue you. Above all, keep cooL The
majority of deaths from fire would
hare been averted If the victims had
not lost their beads.
A recent English writer declares that
be was once greatly surprised by the
widow of a French officer who said she
always traveled first class because she
was rich, and later It turned out that
she had an Income of Just $000 a year.
It set him to thinking, and the result
of his study was the discovery that
this lady never spent annually more
than JSTi, and therefore was rich. Go
ing further into the matter; he found
that the French middle classes, outside
of Paris at least and largely even there,
do not worship appearances as do the
corresponding classes In England. They
make few sacrifices to outward 6how
and have small notion of and less care
for what English and Americans know
as Mrs. Grundy. Frenchmen, as a
rule, he says, spend a third less than
Englishmen on dress. Yet nowhere in
the world is the Individual held In
higher esteem, nowhere do personal
dignity und character and family hon
or command higher respect, nowhere
Is the so-called realistic novelist's
standard of men and women farther
from the true standard that all ob
serve than In the French provinces.
Ninety or more In every hundred live
within their Incomes, because all alike
are esteemed for what they are not at
all by outward appearances. If this
la true of the French as comnared
with the English how much greater is
the contrast as compared with Ameri
cans. In the last analysis how far it
goes to explain the much-criticised ten
dency among us to "graft" and all the
countless corrupt practices In official
and business life so Justly deplored. Is
our universal worship of appearances,
our eager striving to wear a veneer
if we cannot afford the "solid wood"
of so-called respectability, Is all this
one of the fruits of democratic institu
tions a vain attempt to carry the po
litical theory that "one man Is as good
as another" Into all other departments
of life? Or Is it only a passing phase
of development, out of which we will
grow? The question Is one of Infinite
moment to us, and the circumstance
that a thousand years or more of
French development have borne an
other and better fruit, as It seems. Is
a very grave fact In the study.
Substitute lor Pumice.
Artificial pumice Is made In quanti
ties in Bietighelm in the valley of the
Enz in Germany, which Is said to be
a valuable substltut-s for the genuine
stone, according to the New York Post.
It is made from ground sandstone ami
clay, and there are len kinds, differ
ing from each other in regard to hard
ness and grain ns follows: (l) a hard
and a soft kind with coarse grain,
particularly useful in the leather, was
cloth, felt and wood industries'; (2i
a hard and a soft kind with medium
coarse grain, suited to stucco workers
and sculptors and particularly useful
for polishing wood before it is painted;
(3) a soft, finegrained stone for the
white and dry polish of wood and Tor
tin goods; (4) one of medium hardness
with fine grain, for giving the wood n
surface for mi oil polish; (5j a hard,
fine-grained one for working metals
und stones, especially lithographic
stones; and finally pumice stones with
a very fine grain.
These artificial stones are used in
pretty much the same way as those
of volcanic origin. For giving a smooth
surface to wood, a dry stone Is ap
plied, but to give It a fine polish tin
stone is dipped In oil. For the fine work
no coarse-grulned and for coarse work
no fine-grained stone are used. The
unreliability of pumice, both In groin
and hardness, variations being noted
even In the same piece, suggested the
Idea of replacing It with the artificial
product.
OL'R DESPISED GRANDMOTHERS SPLENDID PHYSIQUE.
Mr Lr far.
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out hearing of some department of athletic in
ill which women haTe taken part. The pictures
. I published of women's hockey teams are about as
I numerous as those of men's cricket elevens. Worn
lea carry off golf and lawn tenuis championships
I perform amazing feats of pedestrianUm. ride bl-
yffvv I cycles for unusual distances at unbroken records
" fnf speed, swim, shoot, fish farther, faster, better.
or at auy rate as far. as fast, as well as most male com
pernors. The twentieth century woman has therefore
pa&sed Into a proverb for strength and activity. So it has
become the habit to compare her with her grandmother, to
the latter's disadvantage.
Grandmamma was a poor creature, a soft, drooping
thing that ahrieked at the sight of a mouse and fainted at
that of a cow; that exclaimed "Lai" on all occasion and
was always blushiDg: that wrote a fine hand and expressed
herself In precise English. She scarcely knew what lay
beyond ber garden gate, far less traveled by herself half
over the known globe. She became crimson at the mere
meution of men's nether garments, far less put them on
for bicycllug or mountain climbing purposes. She hardly
went ror a walk, let alone a cross country tramp. She
shrieked at the sight of a gun. and nothing would have
persuaded her to touch It A mild rubber of whist was the
only game she ever played. She knew bow to keep bouse,
but she had never heard of the "higher mathematics." I
think she would have disapproved of her descendant quite
as markedly as her descendant despises her.
Yet, after all. when one comes to analyze the two women
from an impartial point of view, grandmamma does not
compare so unfavorably with her stalwart granddaughter
as she is supposed to do. She was not an athlete. But as
far as endurance went, her granddaughter cut a poor figure
beside her. To begin with, grandmamma had no nerves.
She did not know what the word meant If you had talked
lefore her of a "rest cure," you might Just as well have
been talking Chinese. Her tears and ber fainting flu were
merely toe weapons In her armory, cunning little grand
mamma! She did not waste them on the wrong young man.
Again, grandmamma, when she married hi her teens or
early twenties, looked forward with perfect equanimity to
the bearing of a round dozen of children. That ber descend
ant with all the alleviations of modern science, thinks differ
ently Is the complaint of President Roosevelt If by any
chance grandmamma did leave her peaceful lavender and
rose scented garden and weut out Into the world, she
emerged after a Journey of half a dozen days and nights
sitting up In a stage coach far more fresh and smiling thaa
ber granddaughter after eight hours in a sleeping car.
MARRYING A MAN TO REFORM HIM.
The new cult which declare love a disease
and counsels Its treatment as such Is scarcely
new. Centeries ago Shakspeare wrote: "Love 1
merely madness, and I tell you deserves as well
a dark house and a whip es madmen do; and
the reason why they are not so punished and
mred Is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the
whlpper are In love, too." Moreover. Shakspeare
is said to have borrowed the idea from a far
more ancient writer.
It is probably due to this fact, the lack of reason, which
Is part and parcel of love in general, that so many good
women are willing to marry men who have absolutely
wallowed In pitch, such as none can touch and not be de
filed, fondly believing that love for themselves shall change
the leopard's spots and wash the black sheep as white fr
whiter than any In the flock. In truth, the better and purer
the woman the more ready Is she to assume the task. So.
also, the professedly penitent rascal who confessed to sin
many and grievous and plead for a helping band in behalf
of love, haa a better chance with the best of women than
be who. while actually turning his back on a discreditable
past, refuses to acknowledge bis transgressions or to put
forth his need of saving womanly grace.
Sometime tbe venture 1 successful, but rarely. Usual
ly the trusting wife learns through much tribulation and
many heartaches the all compelling power of old associa
tion, the Infinite strength of long established babit Much
has been said and sung of the power of women's Influence
over tbe men who love them; history and romance are full
of It But the lesion of the ages is. alas, that It is far
easier to influence men for evil than for good. A touch
may be sufficient to send a stone down bill, when the ut
most strength of a team of oxen will scarcely avail to haul
it slowly up tbe steep incline In point of fact the influ
ence of the husband .over the wife Is usually much greater
than that f the wife upon the husband. It is often bard to
overcome evil with good; far easier la It to condone the
sin of a beloved sinner, to make one's self believe that black
Is white.
The miserable bnshand Is the man who cannot bring a
clean bill of moral health to his marriage. The lover ought
to be a better and more unselfish man on the ere of hi
marriage than on the eve of bis proposal. He bas bad a
chance, with the strongest Incentive, of breaking off bad
habits and undesirable, not to say evil, associations. Neith
er should he. as some men are apt to do, regard this partial
reformation as merely a temporary sacrifice and look for
ward to relapsing into the old ways when once he is
married.
SATIRE MAKES IS CREATURES Of HABIT.
Br Andrew Wilson.
Naturalists, whose business it Is to study the
ways and works of the children of life, have long
recognized the power and influence of bubit s a
factor in molding the destinies of animals and
plants. An excellent illustration of the adoption
of a peculiar habit Indeed Is that afforded by the
ways of the rifle fisb. This fish Is a near relation
ot the perches. In its own special family circle
we find at least two ("Defies Included lr hi.
short and compressed body, ending forwards in a distinct
"snout," while the lower iaw nrolect bevond the nnntr
This conformation of mouth bears a distinct relation to
its peculiar mode of life. Modification of structure, in other
words, has followed alteration in the wav of life. v ,i
here two of u family that do not agree in the regulation or
following of existence. The neculiar habit at tht ti-h i.
found In Its mode of capturing the insect prey on which it
lives, it nas acquired the power of ejecting drops of water
forcibly from Its mouth against the insects which ettt n
leHves adjacent to the water. So accurate is its aim that It
rarely fail to bit It prey and to bring down the quarry Into
the water, where it Is at the mercy of Its captor. The
water pellets tnav be elected In a at ream
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particular form of the mouth Is adjusted to the ejection of
the bombarding drops. So that the modification of babit
In respect of what life does bas taken place with alteration
of the machinery on which the performance of the babit
depends.
The "first tet)" may have eommenoerl h h .u.i.
aimless ejection of water from the mouth; then might have
succeeded chance shots which had the effect of bringing
down the Insects to tbe water. Animal life is not slow to
take advantage of the fruits of experience, and, as practice
makes perfect we might thus roughly figure out the be
ginning and perfecting of markmanshlp of the rifle fish.
Perhaps also the rising of the fish to the surface may have
been connected, as in some other fishes, with a uecessltv
for air breathing. But this last is pure conjecture. The
case, none the less. Illustrates excellently the difficulties of
accounting for the beginnings of things.
DANGER OF FLOATING MINES.
Instrument of Death Deposited by
Kuala May Menace Neutral Bhipa.
Naval authorities the world over are
discussing the dangers to which not
only the war vessels of non-combatant
nations but merchant ships in all parts
of the world may be subjected to Rus
sia's unprecedented and unlawful plac
ing floating mines in the open sea. To
place mines at the entrance to a bar-
one of these floating mines which de
stroyed the Japanese battleship Hat
use with several hundred men. Since
that time newspaper correspondents'
boats have reported seeing mines float
ing on the high seas. The tremendous
peril which is thus threatened to oth
ers than participants in the conflict is
apparent
Everybody should know, writes Cy
rus D. Adams, in the New York Times,
that the flotsam and Jetsam of the
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WARSHIP RUNNING ONTO A MINE FIELD.
the land carries much debris from
Japan and Southern China to the Phil
ippine Islands and all other part ot
the eastern Islands world from For
mosa and Borneo. Drifting explosives
In good f condition set afloat In th
neighborhood of Port Arthur might
bring the same danger to shipping in
the East Indies archipelago that now
seem to threaten life and property in
the more northern waters. Torpedoes
would be Just as likely to be carried
Into the channels among the Philippine
Islands as the Asian debris that now
flats In them to be dashed against the
shore.
But the danger might travel further.
Any floating object from these Asian
coasts may be swept Into the great
main stream of the Kuro Slwo, the
wide ocean river that sweeps In a vast
curve across the North Pacific The
Great Circle steaming route followed
by some of the steamship between
American Pacific ports and Japan dip
into the southern edge of this stream.
Although the Kuro Slwo gradually
loses the character of a current. It
sets slowly along the coasts of llrit
tish North America, the t'nited st
and Lower California, ultimately re
joining me equatorial current. The
branch that sweeps southward nloni?
our coasts is known as the California
current. The northward branch wash
es the shores of our Alaskan islands.
If explosives get into the main
stream of the Kuro Slwo coastal
steamers between Alaska and Pnnm
and deepsea vessels along the north
ern route Detween the American Pa
cific and Asia will be liable to meet
terrible disaster.
CBIS. r. ADA X. BOn.K, Pab.
TOLEDO OREGON.
Tbe yellow in the Jap soldier seem
to be only skin deep.
It make a spinster mad every time
she bears of a widow marrying again.
The latest fashion report 1 that
bare feet are again being worn by
small boy.
Almost any wife Is willing to com
promise by letting Ler husband do as
(he pleases.
An Irish philosopher say the sweet
est memories In life are recollection
6f things forgotten.
Eusla tas borrowed 1100.000.000 In
Paris. Paris I easy. We would never
have let them Lave it
When a young man 1 really In love
be doesn't hesitate to propose Just be
cause the girl bas money.
If people could only find money as
easily as they find fault we would all
be millionaires In a short time.
They have health food calle-l
"nutow." "Steakose" and ''baked po
tatose" meets our present demand.
There Is a pitcher on exhibition at
U.e '6l Loolo W. ti.it Is 2,000 years
old. That family must have a Jewel
of a hired girl.
A mother's congress always presents
a splendid opportunity for childless
people with theories to tell the mothers
bow to bring up their offspring.
No doubt we are all quite civilized
and refined, but the big act In the cir
cus Is the one In which the performer
appears to Incur a wanton risk of life.
A Chicago man predicts the end of
the world In l'J2i. We haven't much
faiai In predictions of the end of the
world. Very few of them ever come
true.
The principal part of King Edward's
Job appear to be to visit around
among bl relatives and try to keep
them from declaring war on one another.
Mr. Hetty Greum say It' all a
dream, the report that she had let so
f IM0.000 for a charitable Institution.
And It 1 safe to say Mrs. Green did
not do the dreaming.
An English countess has married ber
coachman. ' American heiresses will
have little Interest In the coachman,
however, as he will not be able to
share the lady' title.
The American Tract Society finds
there Is so much work to do at borne
that it cannot spend as much money as
heretofore In efforts to enlighten the
heathen In foreign lands.
The Btatlsticlans have figured It out
gain. It costs the people of the Uni
ted States S7.97 per capita per annum
to maintain tbe Federal government
Yes, thl includes postofllee buildings,
river and harbor Improvement! and all.
Irrigation or navigation? To which
f these uses certain streams shall bo
reserved Is becoming a serious ques
tion In not a few regions. Some rivers
can easily serve both purposes, but
man must choose whether to put oth
er "before bis plow or under his Buddie."
Fallen Into tbe hands of tbe police, a
clever forger pleads, with tears in bis
yes, that be was forced to crime In
order to maintain bis position In soci
ety. The thing would be funny were
It not a serious reflection upon a man
ner of life all too common nowadays
the habit of many of living beyond
their means In a vain attempt to emu
late the customs of their richer neigh
bors. It requires but an elementary
knowledge of morals to see that this li
all wrong, but that the evil In question
Is very prevalent all must admit. The
remedy lies In a return to a more sim
ple manner of living, coupled with the
understanding that a man's Importance
to society Is not so much a matter of
dollar and cents as It 1 of character.
People buy magazines almost as fre
quently and readily as they buy news
papers. Advertisers pour a golden flood
Into the treasury of every magazine
that can sell and any magazine full
of flimsy short stories can sell. A a
consequence, all the good story writers
re being ruined by prosperity. Scarce
ly any of them write anything fit for
civilized people to read. Tbe maga
zine ba been thoroughly commercial
Ued. What we ask for now I a maga
zine which will not permit it contribu
tor to write more than one or two
short stories a year, and will pay
11,000 apiece for them. Some of the
magazine should attempt to preserve
literature sd4 net devote all Uelr af-
Aa improvement.
"He boasts that be came from a
good family."
Well. 1 don't doubt that If a good
deal better since be came from it"
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Old bachelor In India are Indeed
fortunate. Widow there are not per
mitted to marry again.
bor in case of war, for blockading pur
pose, 1 according to the laws of na
tions, and this Is what Japan bas done
at Port Arthur. In retaliation it seem
beyond doubt that Russia placed a
number of floating mine In the open
ea off Port Arthur, in the course fre
quented by Japanese war vessel, In
the hope of thus entrapping and de
stroying th enemy' skip. It vu
sea are carried by current and winds
Into all the pathway of ocean travel;
and It Is almost Incredible that sane
men should add high explosives to the
wreckage, timber, iceberg and ofter
drift that are always a menace and
for which seafarers are Incessantly on
the lookout
What might happen next winter?
Tm tare vtater nonaoon blowing off
Jews t Jerusalem.
In 1883 there were only 16,000 to
17,000 Jews In Jerusalem. Last year
In the city they numbered at least 4L.
000. In all about 150,000 are actually
living In Palestine.
"Are you doing much work at eoU
lege?" "Ye; I'm trying to keep up
a correspondence with fifteen girls."
Princeton Tiger.