LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
CHAS. F. ft ADA B. SOULE, Pubi.
TOLEDO OREGON
Rrodle may possibly discover that
Mrs. Duke Is much border to lose than
he was to And.
If Andrew Carnegie has any more
money to give away he will write.
Those who want It needn't.
Trof. Vincent says "church socials
re a bore." As a rule, however, they
get what they ure boring after.
A good start to make at drowning all
Idiots would be with that New York
physician who makes the pleasaut suggestion.
They have succeeded In pulling the
Russian ship of state off the rocks, but
her plates are badly dented at several
places.
Cuba is expected to show lto pat
riotism by means of the scrubbing
brush and the fuinigator for some time
to come.
There may be something In Andrew
P. White's argument that reform must
come In Russia, because any change
must be for the better.
Somebody has written a book en
titled "Practical Poker." The most
practical kind of poker Is the kind that
is left practically alone.
Strange emotions must have stirred
the Czar when, as promoter of The
Hague Peace Conference, he heard the
din of slaughter at his palace gates.
An Illiterate population Is easily
managed up to a certain point And
then the advantage of a public that
can be reasoned with becomes apparent.
Those college boys at Oberlln who
will get back the money they lost
through Mrs. Chadwlck realize that
the Carnegie signature is worth some
thing, after all.
A man has been arrested In New
Jersey for swindling people by selling
them glass eyes that were not what be
represented them to be. The champion
mean man seems at last to have been
caught.
It would be a good thing to, order
your pig iron for the year at once. If
you do not you are liable to get left.
The demand is so great that there will
be no Are sales of the article In the
near future.
Oregon apples sell In the Boston
market for sixty and seventy-five cents
a dozen a higher price than is asked
for good oranges in the same market.
The reason Is that they are carefully
elected and carefully packed. The fact
and the reason are commended "to
whom it may concern."
"Those children up in the New
Hampshire town where I have been
this summer," remarked a little urchin
In New York City, "have never seen
an elevated road or an electric car, and
Jimmy Ilobbs seven years old has
never even seen a locomotive." Jimmy
Ilobbs is in good company. The same
might have been suld of all the great
men, from Julius Caesar to George
Washington. The person of to-day
who lives far In the country sees more
modern appliances and Inventions than
Abraham Lincoln or the poet Longfel
low ever beard of, and they did their
life's work well.
tistics and uniform divorce laws will
produce different effects on different
minds. People who have obtained two
or three divorces by false pretenses
and sharp practice will regard the j
President as a dangerous meddler, but
decent people from one end of the
country to the other will rejoice that
the attention of Congress and of the
States has been directed to this im
portant matter. That the censors have
taken no notice of divorce statistics
for twenty years is a remarkable and
somewhat discreditable fact, and the
suggestion that Congress should take
steps to correct this fault In the future j
is highly proper, but the chief point !
In the message is "the hope entertain-1
ed that co-operation among the several
States can be secured, to the end that
there may be enacted upon the subject
of marriage and divorce uniform
laws." There are not many thoughtful
people in this country who do not re
gret that the constitution gives Con
gress no power to legislate on this sub
ject, but It Is a vain regret. There
will probably never be a national di
vorce law in this country, and the
only hope there is of relief from the
evil of unwise and conflicting divorce
laws Is that held out by the President
of co-operation between the States.
Such co-operation will no doubt be sen
sibly hastened by the notice which the
President has taken of the subject and
till more by the statistics which Con
gress may direct the Census Bureau
to compile. The probability is that
one sight of the figures will produce so
much condemnation that the reform
will immediately take shape.
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President Kllot of Harvard, in ad
dressing the Archaeological Institute
of America, made the remark that if
pome grvut change should destroy our
present civilization, about the only
thing by which the archaeologist of
two thousand years hence could Judge
us would be our subways, because they
are the only things which are likely
to hist so long. It Is a curious fact
that with few exceptions, If any, the
works of man below the (pound last
longer than those above It. Oliver
Wendell Holmes pointed out that long
after every other trace of a house hod
disappeared, it was possible to trace
an old home by the cellar and the
well.
It does not take much to transform
Tncle Sam into Santa Clans. A little
heavier growth of whiskers and a
change of outer garments, and he will
do very well for the part which he
plays every Christmas. For- he is, in
deed, the Santa Claus of the whole
world. Money goes in lurge sums
every winter from adopted Americans
to other countries. This last Christ
mas the amount was greater than ever
before. From New York alone money
orders aggregating more than four and
a half million dollars were sent abroad.
Great Britain led in the number of or
ders received and in the total amount
eut to it, but Italy was far ahead In
the average amount of each order.
Dr. Eugene F. Talbot, an authority
on degeneracy, and President Roose
velt would hardly agree In regard to
large families. The President de
plores small families as bad In many
ways and calls them "race suicide,"
while Dr. Talbot Informs us that there
Is no family of eight or ten children
that has not at least one degenerate.
The reason he gives is that no woman
has the nervous energy necessary for
the prenatal nourishment of so many
children. It is not likely that Dr. Tal
bot would make such a statement un-.
less he had statistics to support It, and
still It is widely different from the
general opinion of mankind, and not
many people could ever accept It. John
Wesley, In advising his preachers in
regard to choosing a wife, said, "Take
one out of a bunch," and his advice
would be Just as good for anyone else
as for a preacher. It would be risking
little to say that nine out of ten of
the great -men and great women of
the world have had "a bunch" of
brothers and sisters. We would risk
Just as little in saying that the chil
dren of large families are more rebust
physically as well as mentally than
"race suicide" progeny. If the world
were compelled to choose between the
blotting out of all Its small families
and the blotting out of all Its large
families It would not hesitate a mo
ment to doom the small families. Fam
ilies are small so that the children can
enjoy greater advantages, but we con
stantly see them eclipsed In the race
of life by the children of larger fam
ilies with fewer advantages, who are
not only stronger and smarter but pos
sess a social nature and unselfish traits
that are more valuable to humanity
than strong bodies or bright minds.
This Is the order of nature, and it Is
useless to try to change It. Dr. Tal
bot's moralizing about fast living and
neurasthenia and about the necessity
for sound health and good nerves in
order to successful motherhood Is all
perfectly true, but what he says about
excessive motherhood. In itself con
sidered, is not borne out by common
observation. Nature never Intended
motherhood as an Injury to a woman's
health. No one can greatly blaine pa
rents for preferring two well-clad and
well-educated children to eight ragged
and neglected children, but the fact Is
that the two are far more apt to be de
generates than the eight.
THE NEW IRELAND.
By Gilbert Parker.
Within the last decade In Ireland politics have
shown an inclination to be practical, religion has
become more tolerant, the question of education
Is at last being seriously and anxiously grappled
with, and a new sense of the independence of all
sections, creeds, interests and parties in Ireland
Is by way of being evolved.
It was the deep conviction that the Irish
character only needed the right appeal in order to
put forth a great recuperative vitality that some fifteen
years ago Sir Horace Plunkett launched his movement ot
organized self-belp entitled the Irish Agricultural Organi
zation Society.
That society has grown until tt now embraces over
8,000 branches and nearly half a million persons; Its co
operative creameries, dairies, poultry societies, agricul
tural banks, and home Industries societies have spread all
over the Island: with the admirable assistance and stim
ulus of tlie Gaelic League it has touched the secret chord
of Irish nationality, strengthened the backbone and in
creased the prosperity of the Irish peasant; It Is incul
cating thrift, responsibility, and business-like habits; it
is founding libraries, reviving the rural arts and handi
crafts, and bringing buck to the countryside something of
old Irish Joyousness.
All this is an effort to expand the sentiment of nation
ality outside the domain of party controversies, a conscious
ottempt of the Irish to develop a civilization of their own.
By focusing the energies of the people on the immediately
practicable it dissipates the enervating idea that reform
can come only from without. It places, literally as well as
figuratively, the recreation of Ireland In Irish hands
Overriding sectional, religious, and political divisions, it
makes for unity in the solution of problems In which all
Irishmen will, In time, realize that they have a common
Interest.
President Roosevelt' brief message
to Congress In regard to divorce !
Chinaman's "Homo Paper."
The Chinese Weekly Herald Is one
of the curioiis Institutions of New
York. It la not popular among Amer
icans, for, being printed "backwards,"
u white man must stand .on his head
to rend it. Outside of a similar publi
cation in 'Frisco's Chinatown this is
the sole printed medium for news from
"home" for the thousands of New
York's almond-eyed lialf-citlzens. It Is
to be found Just as regularly In Chi
nese laundries as the comic weeklies
In an American barber shop. When
the lauudryman goes out of business
his successor carries on the subscrip
tion. The out-of-town circulation is
greater than that In New York.
Scores of Its subscribers cannot read
It. The Herald Is a four-page paper,
about half the size of an ordinary
news sheet, and always disconcerts
Americans, because It opens at the left
side Instead of the right. The col
umns run crosswise Instead of up and
down, and a flash-view of the sheet
gives the impression of a scrambled
egg. Such things, however, are pure
ly matters of national taste. Pitts
burg Dispatch.
WHO HAS BETTER TIME MAN OR WOMAN ?
By Angela Morgan.
Women have a better time In, life than men
do. Under no circumstances would I choose to
be a man. If I had a chance to come to earth
again In another Incarnation, and were given the
choice, I should without hesitation elect to be
a woman. Women know how to get the finest
flavor from life. They know how simply because
;hey are born to it not because they acquire the
knowledge through effort. To extract the real
essence irom living one must be endowed with these quali
ties: Imagination, Intuition, sensibility and the capacity
to love. Women possess all these requisites to a greater
degree than men. For this reason women can lay hold
on the subtler enjoyments of life. And as the subtlest en
joyments are the best and most lasting, it is the women
who have a monopoly of real happiness in life.
It Is in, her capacity to love that ' woman experiences
her greatest joys. Woman gets a vast deal more out of
love than man. Show uie the man to whom love means
one-tenth what it does to a woman! When a man loves.
the external scenery of life does not change visibly to him.
Life does not become a thing bewitched and gilded. His
days and hours and moments are not permeated by love as
an influence. Love, to a man, means an exhilarating chase
for possession. A woman pleases him, captivates him and
he wants her for his own. In possession he finds a certain
pleasure a certain pride and satisfaction but as for hap
piness, the sort of happiness a woman extracts from love
why, he doesn't know the A B C of it! Once in a while,
perhaps, a sense of it grazes his consciousness but he Is
too busy to give it more than a curious thought or two.
Ills mind is too crowded with practical things to admit the
"Intangible." But when a woman loves, she lives. She
does not live until she does love. Iove to her Is all-absorb
ing, all-transforming, all-embracing. Love to a woman
means the opportunity to express herself to give the best
of herself to the object of her affections. It means, too,
the opportunity for sacrifice and It is right here that
woman revels in the full expression of her love. Suffering
and sacrifice are to her but different names for happiness.
It is in mother love, perhaps, that woman reaches the
pinnacle of blessedness. And of such selfless bliss as this
man knows nothing.
What If men do have greater freedom than women?
That very freedom proves Itself ofteuer a curse than a
blessing. What If women's liven are bound by convention
ality? Up to the present writing, the wisdom of such re
striction has not been disproved. No, I would not be a
man if I could. Despite her restrictions, her sacrifices and
her sufferings I think a woman gets the greatest happiness
out of life.
PNEUMONIA MAKES BIG STRIDES.
By Dr. William t. Qulne, of Chicago.
Pneumonia is the most prevalent of all infec
tious diseases. Since the year 1800 Its destruc
tlveness In Chicago has increased 350 per cejjt.
while that of consumption has diminished 40 per
cent.
Since the year 1000, of all the deaths occurring
in Chicago oue-elghth have been the direct result
of pneumonia, this being one-third more than wus
caused by consumption and 44 per cent more
than was caused by all other Infectious diseases combined.
Liability to It increases steadily from the age of puberty
to deuLh. The luale sex contract the Ujulady twice x
often as the female, not because of greater Inherent sus
ceptibility, but because of habits of greater exposure.
The disease is twice as fatal among negroes as It is
among whites, and the most prolific of all auxiliary cause
is the use of alcoholic beverages. Habitual intemperance
not only Increases the rate of prevalence of pneumonia,
but it increases the mortality of the disease as well.
This is shown by the fact that In the charitable hos
pitals, such as our Cook County Hospital, about one pneu
monia patient out of three or four dies, whereas in private
practice only one patient out of eight or ten dies. The
malady Is most prevalent In the months of January, Feb
ruary and March, and liability to It Is enormously increased
by the prevalence of the grip.
Pneumonia is caused by a germ. The germ Is dis
charged In the expectoration of a pneumonia patient. If
the expectoration toe allowed to fall upon the floor or upon
the carpet it soon dries and crumbles Into duBt, and this
dust containing the pneumonia germs may be wafted
through the atmosphere of the house, and thus spread tbe
Infection. The pneumonia germs are widely distributed
and are often found entangled in the mucus of the nose aud
throat of healthy persons.
Badly ventilated houses or apartments in which cases
of pneumonia have occurred are extremely liable to develop
other cases In endless succession unless the premises are
thoroughly fumigated and ventilated. In relation to the
prevention of pneumonia, the most Imperative of all re
quirements is that the expectoration of the patient be
promptly destroyed, and in this connection It is not to
be forgotten that after a patient has recovered from pneu
monia the germs may persist in his expectoration for many
months.
One of the most destructive fallacies that governs ordi
narily sensible people is that which leads them to exclude
night air from their bedrooms, on the assumption that night
air Is peculiarly noxious; but since it is not possible to get
any other kind of air at night but night air, it would seem
that the supply then should be Just as free as during any
other part of the twenty-four hours. Judicious habits of
dressing, and regularity as to eating and sleeping, and the
avoidance of alcoholic excesses, will confer the maximum
degree of protection against the disease.
THE LATEST SENSATIONAL
SPECTACLE IN PARIS.
The appetite of the Parisian public
for dangerous spectacles never seems
to pall. The latest "attraction" Is the
gyroscope at the Casino de Paris, In
which a bicyclist travels round the
Inner side of a moving track or wheel.
The gyroscope Is constructed scien
tifically, and is. while moving round
its axle, executing n circular move
ment round a strong pillar supporting
It; a weight nt the back Insures the
stability of the apparatus.
The diameter of the wheel Is about
13 feet; it is built like a bicycle wheel,
nnd bears on one side a metallic fac-
, THE GYROSCOPE.
Yeast The chauffeurs, I understand,
get $15 a week and found.
Crimsonbcak You mean and fined,
don't you? Boston Herald,
lug Joined to the axle by eight girders
of Iron; on the facing is fixed a track
composed of small wooden bars, giv
ing more "grip" to the tires.
The bicycle is somewhat similar to
ordinary machines; the handles are
vertical, the front fork stralghter, and
the whole a few pounds heavier than
the ordinary bicycle.
Yale, world champion for this kind
of exercise, and well known for his
daring feats, Is performing on the gy
roscope. Entering it on his bicycle he
HOME OF A POVERTY STRICKEN FAMILY IN IRELAND.
The cut depicts one of the miserable cave dwellings of the noor Irish
in the County Galway district of Connemara. This is a poor acultur J
district, and the inhabitants are destitute of most of the conen ence o Ufe
Their half underground hovels are squalid and unhealthy. AdS to al tt
s the famine which prevails In much of Ireland on aLunt oTtte pota
crop failure the past season In many parts of the Island the people a
entirely dost tute of means of subsistence, and the most harrowing and pitif U
etters come to America asking help. i.8t season was nnusuallv hot and wet
In Ireland, and there was an almost total failure of crops of all kinds
conrmenees by riding rapidly, thus im
pressing a reverse movement to the
gyroscope; when this has attained a
certain speed Yale blocks his wheels
by n powerful effort of the legs'; the
gyroscope therefore pulls him back
wards to n certain height. When
reaching the point where the force
ascensional Is nil, the cyclist starts
again at a high puce, thus increasing
the speed of the apparatus and rais
ing him on the other side to a certain
height.
This exercise, repeated several times,
brings him each time nearer the top.
Yale is then able to loop the wheel
seven or eight times In succession.
Montreal Star.
Men who are subject to hay fever
should steer clear of grass widows.
The LoimnmiivA . ... .
racer.
i he total coal production of the
I- nited States Is now at the rate of
1,000,000 tons per day, and the con
sumption of coal by railroads is equal
to 40 per cent of this, or 400,000 toin
ler day. The fuel bill of a railroad
contributes about 10 per cent of the
total expense of operation and DO to
40 per cent of the total cost of run
ning the locomotives. A locomotive
will consume on an average of $.-.,(ju)
worth of coal per annum, and for a
road having an equipment of 1 (mwj
locomotives the coal bill Is approxK
mutely $5,000,000. Railway Age.
Millc
Milk that is slightly talued may be
sweetened by stirring a little soda,
into it.