LIKCOIH COUNTY LEADER.
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TOLEDO.
.OREGON.
bare been beating time so long as a
nation that they cannot grasp, the In
spiration of the word progress. To
them it simply means change, and
nothing Is so repugnant to the race as
that
Chance is one of the most profane
words in our language.
It la not always safe to Judge the
state of our prosperity by the prices
put on the new hats for women.
A woman can forgive her husband
for being a bear at home if he will
only make love to her when they are
out In company.
Viceroy Alexleff calls the Japanese
a "self-willed, stubborn enemy." The
remark throws a flood of light on the
origin of the war.
Mr. Carnegie wanta war abolished,
but the Carnegie mills are going right
along making' armor plate for all cus
tomers that have the price.
Uncle Sam must be something of a
farmer when the statistics show that
the railroads received more than $403,
000,000 for simply moving bis 1004
crop.
Algernon Sartoris, grandson of Gen
eral Grant, ridicules the establishment
of the jury system in the Philippines
where he says the lower natives are
too easily corrupted. Bo? Noticed
something of the same sort here..
Already the New York subway Is
being disfigured with unsightly adver
tisements. Some people will think It
a pity when they get to heaven If
they ever do that they can't line the
streets of the New Jerusalem with
billboards.
Woman was woman 2000 B. C. 'Ar
thur Evans, the Oxford archaeologist,
bas found in Crete a subterranean
Banctuary containing the statue of a
goddess. The goddess has on corsets
exactly like those of modern date, and
now the splendid physique of Greek
women has to be explained on a whol
ly new theory.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., exhorted on
the parable of the leaven before his
Bible class, and said: "There Is noth
lng In the dough Itself to make It light
and wholesome. The dough Itself is
harmful if taken Internally." When
It comes to talking about "dough"
young Rockefeller speaks with author
ity, for he should have inherited suffi
cient Information on the subject to en
title him to the entire bakery.
What la doubtless the largest meteo
rite "In captivity" Is now on exhibition
In the Museum of Natural History in
New York. ' It weighs about fifty tons.
Commander Peary found It In the arc
tic regions and brought it south a few
years ago. Until recently It was
stored in the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
Since alighting on the earth after its
wild career through the heavens it
bus become completely domesticated,
and no guard Is required nor Is an
Iron cage needed to keep It from
breaking loose.
President Palma was able to con
gratulate the Cuban congress in his
annual message on a notable Increase
In the foreign trade of the island. He
reported that the Imports for the fis
cal year ending June 30 last were $74,
492,000. an Increase of $11,872,000, and
that the exports were $94,309,000, an
Increase of $16,000,000. He did not
state the proportion of the Increase in
the trade with the United States, but
our own government statistics show
that It is considerable. We sold Cuba
in the fiscal year, according to our
computation, $26,908,000 of goods, an
Increase of $5,147,000 over the fiscal
year 1903, and we bought from Cuba
$76,983,000, an Increase of $14,041,000.
As compared with 1902, our sales were
almost the same, but our purchases
had more than doubled.
Food adulteration, for many years a
subject of contention and discussion
In scientific quarters, bas received its
most serious consideration at the
hands of the International jury of
awards at the Louisiana Purchase Ex-
Iosition. After several months of
close scrutiny of many food samples
and the most careful scientific Investi
gation the Jurors uncovered conditions
that are astonishing. According to
Paul .Pierce, superintendent of food
exhibits at the fair, the following Is
uu actual breakfast In a vvuikiiii;-
ruan's home in Indianapolis: Fried
sausage, colored with aniline red and
adulterated with about 10 per cent of
corn grits; apple butter, colored with
anllne red and loaded with glucose;
butter, colored with azo dye und adul
terated with 10 per cent excess of
water; coffee, glazed with a glazing
compound of dextrine and starch, and
colored with brown aniline dye; bread,
cheap, soggy baker's stuff not suffi
ciently baked and 'containing glucose
and malt extract; potatoes;' gravy,
made from flour, milk and the drip
from colored and adulteratel sausage.
This breakfast consisted of seven arti
cles, of which only one potatoes
was normal.
PLEA FOR THE SIMPLE LIFE.
Br KY. ft. A. Wblte. B. D. CSlcafa.
Cultivate simplicity, live within
your meane, follow your own tastes,
and act like sane human beings In
stead of the crazy. Jaded, overworked,
overplayed, overdressed set we are.
The modern tendency Is to become
enmeshed in a. complication of wants,
necessities and confusions, like a fly
in a web. The mere struggle for ex
istence has become woefully com
plicated. . Business has taken on such
complexities as to rob it of pleasure
and threaten it with constant uncer-
ur, K. a. whit A tainty. Our pelasures are complex.
Simple entertainment no longer satisfies. The stage, the
press, art, Action, and music are all In a mad rush to cre
ate or find new sensations for restless, dissatisfied patron
age, burdened with many carc-s and oppressed by an in
describable ennui.
Simple, tasteful dress scarcely exists; we are an over
dressed people, ruled by the latest convention of clothes
makers. We are mad over superfluous wants. The people
worry most over nonessential things. No one-is- any hap
pier under these conditions. Everyone has look of care.
Our women are not rosy and contented looking. Our
young men breed wrinkles early. Men and women who
dress to suit themselves and be comfortable are freaks
To keep up appearances, prople wear clothes which they
have not paid for and cannot afford. To march with the
procession, people eat food for which they have not paid
the grocer, live in houses with rent in arrears, affect a style
of life they have no visible means of supporting. Living at
our present pace Is responsible for most of our modern
crime. From the snare of small debts, brought on by ex
pensive living, many a man seeks to escape by certain spec
ulations and finally by certain peculations.
According to official Japanese re
ports, one regiment which went into
one of the most desperate assaults
upon the defenses of Port Arthur with
more than 2,700 effective men lost
2,500. Only six officers and 200 men
came back from one of the most terri
ble struggles in the history of war.
Such fighting as this Is disheartening
to the most 'stubborn antagonists
which any army can encounter. It
reveals a willingness literally to con
quer or die, which is appalling to offi
cers commanding opposing forces.
Abyssinia Is being "wired." Some
1,000 miles of telephone line have been
put up and as much more is being
laid. The work is no joke. The rains
and the poles fell. The white ants ate
up a large collection of wooden poles.
Then iron ones were put up, which
the simple native liked so well that
be took them home to use In bis busi
ness. The Negus stopped the amuse
ment by proclaiming death to the pole
pilferers. But the royal mandate can
not prevent the Bandarlog, the mon
key people, from swinging In the wires
or what Is much more delightful
the elephant from scratching himself
against the poles. The telephone pole
Is a scratching post for elephants.
Thus does civilization provide home
comforts for the jungle people.
The Immense amount of money giv
en during the last ten years for widely
different objects finds no parallel in
history. It is true large sirtns of mon
ey In times past have been given to
the church, and during the middle ages
what was given to the church Includ
ed education, libraries and charities as
well as religion, but there was nothing
like the lavish outpouring of money
there has been of late, especially in
America. Libraries and universities
have come in for so large a share of
these gifts that the most remote ham
let is likely to be provided with all
the reading one can desire, while uni
versity privileges reach out to all who
are willing to seize them. What turn
will this fad for giving take next?
The good impulse Is evidently destined
to continue and to find new channels.
Education is all right, but even the
capacity to learn has its limits, and
there are other needs in life besides
brain culture. Scientific investigation
ought to come in for a large share of
benefit in the future.' Each new dis
covery and invention opens the way
for a demand for others. Much as has
been accomplished of late by way of
scientific research, the field Is endless
and at present demands large sums of
money. There can be no greater boon
to humanity than further success in
the fluids opened by Koch, Finsen,
Ramsay, Becquerel, the Curries and
others, but these Interests cannot be
pursued by scientists to ny great ex
tent unless means are generously pro
vided. It Is not the part of a republi
can government to foster experiments
or provide means for other than imme
diate demands, but It is the privilege
of those gifted with the facility for
money-making or on whom fortune
has bestowed her favors to advance
these interests by generous donations.
It Is something to find and conquer
new worlds In science, but to be the
patron of these discoverers, to be the
one to enable them to accomplish the
deed Is scarcely less honor than is his
who has the genius for doing It While
the fad for giving' Is on let the sceln
tists have their share of the funds.
POWER OF CIRCUMSTANCE IN LOVE AFFAIRS.
By Helen Oldtteld.
There Is nothing In the conduct of life to
which the trite old saying that "circumstances
alter cases" applies more forcibly than to love
affairs. No one is altogether sure of one's self,
still less of another, and none can gauge cor
rectly the depths of another's heart They who
ask advice concerning the course to be pursued
in the dilemmas of love are usually ill advised.
Such probltms are of those with which no one
should Intermeddle. The man who wishes to be told wheth
er he will be safe In marrying a woman who be Is reasonably
sure loves him, but with whom he Is not In' love; a woman
whom he likes thoroughly and of whom he cordially ap
proves; must In all kindness and justice to himself and to
her decide the question for them both. He only can judge
whether his temperament is such that cordial liking for,
and a firm faith In, his wife can fill the place of genuine,
permanent love. In case love declines to follow in their
wake. He must take 'into consideration that sweetness It
cloying when not desired, and question himself closely at
to whether the demonstrations of a love which he doe not
share may not prove wearisome beyond his power te con
ceal that weariness. -
There are not many women to whose hearts true and
earnest love cannot find Its way sooner or later r few who
are proof against a loyal and loving lover. Which fact. In
view of the Insurmountable law that a woman cay not
choose, except from among those who choose her. It un
doubtedly a merciful dispensation of providence. The love
Which lasts must be founded upon the rock of mutual re
spect, else, when the storms of adversity come and the
floods beat upon that love,- it will fall and fall like the
house In the parable which was builded upon sand.
WOMEN CRIMINALS WORSE THAN MEN.
Bf Ceorg Curette.
Crime and criminal women hive always been
of the greatest Interest to the vulgar herd. Last
year it was the Humbert affair; this year it la
Italy which, In the person of the Countess Bon- -martin,
runs In close rivalry to France. Certain
crimes, which bad grows rare of late years, have
brusquely reappeared. Poison bas become fash
ionable once more. For crime has Its fashion;
uow it is the revolver, now vitriol, now poison. The dag
ger has been cast aside for a weapon at unerring, but more
dangerous and even more dastardly poison. And now
rumors of poisoning cases are becoming more and more
frequent A few months ago Mme. Galtle, at Lectoure,
and Mme. Massot, at Marseilles, were accused of poison
ing their husbands, and at Rouen Mme. Bonroy Is being
tried for having killed her husband In the-same way.
A poisoner baa the maddened thirst of a drunkard, with
this difference, however, that she pours out her beverage
for others. She has visibly her hysteria. This refinement
of cruelty, this sort of pernicious daintiness In crime, is a
malady like any others. In certain women this hysteria
will turn Into a need of lying, of Inventing extraordinary
tales. In others It becomes a passion for writing unsigned
letters, often addressed to themselves; In othes still, it Is
the madness of crime, taie impulsive, irresistible need of
killing just for the pletasure of killing, to see the features
drawn in the agony of pain, the throes of the dying.
Now we are having a little epidemic of poisoning. But
a noticeable feature is this all these crimes take place in
the provinces. It would seem as if a Parisian woman, in
her feverish existence, in her whirlwind of a life, has
neither the time nor the quiet mind necessary to set, upon
a victim with the same cold slowness, the same dally feroci
ty. When a Parlslenne does revenge herself upon some
body, she uses her revolver, In between two calls, or two
outings In her automobile. Everything goes quickly In
Paris, even murder.
Nothing is more remarkable In con
nection with the war In the east than
the stolidity of the Chinese people. If
they take note of the battles they
seem to have no preference as to
which side shall be victor. This is
largely a fact of Ignorance, for even
the well-informed natives have only
the crudest geographical knowledge
and do not grasp the meaning of a
map. But the stolidity Is not alto
gether attributable to lack of compre
hension of military movements In the
area of hostilities, but Is largely due
to racial characteristics. From every
point of view the Chinese are an illus
tration of arrested development They
A 'Second Offense.
The tramp arrested for vagrancy
rarely displays any humor, but the
New York Tribune mentions one
whose mild wagglshuess enlivened his
own trial.'
After the judge had looked the man
over, he said, musingly, "I seem to
know your face."
"Yes," the trump agreed, pleasantly,
"we were boys together."
"Nonsense!" said the judge, frowning.
"But, we were," the tramp said, with
mild insistence. "We're about the
same age. We must a' been boys together."
Women go into boarding houses with
the excuse that they can't find help,
How about the men who don't close
up their place of business because of
the tarn problem 7
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1.SUT.250 tuna.
A few months ago the United
States Bureau of Intelligence
made Home valuable compari
sons, in one of which the navies
were compared on the basis of
the number and displacement of
warships actually completed on
Jan. 1, 1904, and the other on
the basts of the number and
displacement both of the war
ships actually completed and of
those under construction at that
date. It should, be noted that
in these estimates no account
is taken of gunboats and other
vessels of less than 1,000 tons
displacement, nor do they in
clude transports, dispatch ves
sels, converted merchant vessels
KKANCB.
755,757 ton.
UNITED 8TATE8. GERMANY. RUSSIA. ITALY. JAPAN
616,273 tons. 505,619 tons. 474,799 tons. 829.259 tons. 232.434 tons.
t..t. t. ,,fc,ft.iLJ
NAVIES OF WORLD COMPARED
If All
Ships Now Under Construction
Were Completed.
To-day.
Tons.
1. Great Britain.. 1,518,040
2. France 676,168
8. Germany 87,874
4. Russia 860,391
5. United States.. 294,405
6. Italy 258,838
7. Japan 222,339
If all Ships now Building
were Completed.
' Tons.
1. Great Britain. .1,867.250
2. France 755,757
8. United States.. 616.275
4. Germany 605,619
6. Russia 474,799
6. Italy 829,259
7. Japan 232,434
or yachts, or obsolete cruisers.
Vessels, moreover, that are au
thorized, but upon which no ac
tual work of construction has
been done, are excluded from
the comparison. The figures of
the department are given here
after subtracting the tonnage
of the vessels actually lost by
Russia since Jan. 1 and the
gains by Japanese of the two
purchased cruisers and the
losses sustained during the fight-,
lng off Port Arthur. It will be
seen that Russia drops from her
position of third before the war
to fourth In the first list and
fifth under the second heading.
ORIGIN OF WORD PICNIC.
It Appeared in One of Lord Chester
field's Letters.
"Whence the word "picnic?" asked
a man who Is fond of the study of the
meaning and origin of words, In the
New Orleans Times-Democrat I do
not know and have not been able to
trace. My attention was directed to
the matter by a recent article, in
which It was stated that the deriva
tion of the word picnic is uncertain.
In London Notes and Queries of 1853
a tempts were made to trace Its origin.
One correspondent says: 'Under a
French form the word appears In a
speech of Robespierre, "C'est lei (ju'll
dolt ma'Hccuser, et non dans les
plquesnlques." An earlier Instance oc
curs In one of Lord Chesterfield's let
ters, dated October, ' 1784 Another
writer of the same date tries to trace
the word through France Into Italy,
starting with the assumption that
plqueulque in French Implies a party
at which each guest provides some
special duty, he finds the Italian ex
pression nlccbla (duty) and plccola (a
trifling service), and from these he
coins plccola nlcchla (picnic). A French
encyclopedia, 1843,. bat it that the
word It compounded of the simple
English pic (to choose) and Dick (In
the nick of time, on the spur of the
moment). In France the term is also
used for Indoor picnics. In America
the word picnic Is confined to out-of-door
affairs, and in the old-time mean
ing of the word It was a basket dln-
.uer In the woods. The word Is given
a broader meaning now and is fre
quntly used to describe the annual cel
ebration of certain organizations."
Didn't Hind Results.
The Insurance men were exchanging
vacation reminiscences in Dearborn
street.
"The pleasantest sight I saw up in
Wisconsin while I was there," said the
red faced man, "was an old fisherman
we passed one day in the canoes, smok
ing bis pipe, and with rod out anxious
ly awaiting results.
"'What d'ye fish with?" asked our
guide as we passed.
" 'Frogs, of course,' said the lone
fisherman, calmly,
."The guide broke out In a loud guf
faw. And just then I couldn't see
why. Then be pointed to a big log
that lay in the stream a little distance
away from Hie fisherman. He had
neglected to weight hit line sufficient
ly to keep the bait down, and the frog
had come to the surface on the other
side of one of the logs, leaped on It
and sat there comfortably blinking In
the sunlight
"Two- hours later we returned. The
frog was still there, and the old fisher
man smoked on in blissful ignorance
of the situation.
"I wish we could take poor results
as cheerfully as that old chap up la
Wisconsin." Chicago Inter Ocean.
France's Money Troubles.
The French are having a hard time
with their nickels. The old ones were
so much like the silver franc piece
that the people protested; they kept
giving a. piece worth 20 cents for one
worth 5. At last they have changed
the shape. The new nickel will be
rounded with acute corners so that by
the simple touch the difference will be
perceptible. About twenty millions
will, in a few days, be thrown into
circulation. Brooklyn Eagle.
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Nothing Fast About Htm.
Gladys (sighing) Oh, dear,
hasn't proposed yet
Ethel Well, what can you expect of
a chap who never runs his auto over
ten miles an hour! Puck.
Some men would have no excuse for
living If their wives didn't take la
boarders.