LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER c r. some, pinhr TOLEDO OREGON Aa.ng the "Income" taxes that hurt the worst is the grocer's bill. There are only four letters In love, but there are thousands of love letters. A girl Is pretty safe In marrying a young man whose mother can't cook. With whalebone nt 1 15,000 a ton the autl-corset crusader enters the fray with renewed zest. Sometimes the popularity of fad depends upon the amount of foollsh titss there Is back of It. Tale university has raised the sal aries of Its professors. Some of them make almost as much now as a football player. London reports the snle of an odou toglossura crlspiuni pletanuni for $5,750. They've gone up since we bought ours. A private soldier stationed at Ha vana la to bo court niartialed for rhym ing. Would that all the rhymsters were regulars. A London man played the piano 4H hours consecutively, proving his physi cal endurance, his Idiocy and the pa- Some Judge has gravely decided that chickens are hatched, not born. At least one of the differences between chickens and poets has now been made plain. "Father's cigar" may be responsible fon Johuny's coflln nail In frequent In stances, but many a smokeless father Is shocked by the discovery that lie has a smoking son. Perhaps that English professor who referred to "the joyless American face" had been making a study of the faces of some of our citizens as they are Been In their automoblllng outfits. Cleveland's Y. M. C. A. has decided that a multl-mllllonalre cannot be an honest man. Evldeutly the Cleveland Y. M. C. A. has no reason to expect large donations from II. H. Rogers. One of Washington's body servants flled at Alexandria, Va., a few days ago. It must have been a loug and tedious Job for Washington to call the roll of his body servants when that was necessary. It Is estimated that the apple crop in the United States this year will amount to more than 30,000,000 bar rels. But this fact doesn't afford much comfort to the consumer who Inquires the price In the retail market. . The price of artificial diamonds Is going up very rapidly. This is proba bly due to the fact that most of the society ladies now wear artificial dia monds and keep their real gems In safety deposit vaults. What will they do when the artificial gems become so valuable that It will not be safe to wear them? Knowledge of human nature Is shown In the recent order of the Tost office Department, that for minor dere lictions of duty not serious enough to warrant discharge, fines shall be no longer Imposed. Instead, the salaries of the less worthy employes will be de creased, and the reductions will be added to the salaries of the deserving. Of course serious offense brings dis charge, as heretofore. The new system encourages good service and discour ages service which Is not good. Scarless surgery Is oue of the latest achievements In medical .science. The London surgeon who conceived the Idea and successfully put It In practice Is unable to meet the demands for his lervlees. The Idea is a simple one. In making the Incision the scalpel does not cut the skin at right angles with the surface but passes through It at a ilant After the operation Is over the kin Is Joined with the greatest nicety, a magnifying glass being used to Bee that the contact is perfect Theu a rigid dressing of wool and glass Is ap plied to prevent contraction and as much pressure Is applied as Is safe. Naturally much depends upon the skill of the operator. The surgeon who per fected the process devotes himself en tirely to making Incisions In the skin and treating them afterward, leaving the operations proper to others. There Is some extenuation for Fourth of July riot because It Is, nom inally at least, In celebration of a pa triotic anniversary. It Is. too, only In tldentally destructive. It is uot essen tially vicious. So much cannot be said tf the Halloween lawlessness, which Is Increasing In volume and recklessness f early. There was a time when IIul loween pranks were confined to the ringing of doorbells, the oieratlou of "tick-tacks" and the occasional curry ing off of a gate or some other, porta ble object. The modern celebrators have gut fur past that stage of diver sion. They deliberately destroy prop erty In some Instances and in others they deliberately steal It The "cele bration," In other words, has become a combination of malicious mischief mid larceny. There Is 110 longer nny pretense of praukishuess about It The situation, of course, arises from the fact invariable In such matters that a certain degree of Halloween license Is permitted In defereuee to tradition and custom. This license Is seized uiwii by the vicious and larcenous ns an excuse for their operations. The result Is seen In wholesale damage to proierty and In serious losses by theft It Is probably too much to expect any reform In the matter, since the excuse that Halloween, like Christmas, conies but once a year will be deemed suffl clent answer to the complaints of those who have had their property destroyed or stolen. It may bet said, neverthe less, that if It became' known that the law against malicious mischief and larceny would be enforced on Hallow een ns on all other nights of the year, there would bo a stop to the annoy nnecs and outrages which many peo ple now suffer. It is simply a ques tion of executing the laws. Possibly in order to correct an In pressiuu fostered bv PXftlnul VQ rn t.rvrj and public speakers, and emphasized by occasional developments, Alfred Van d"rb!It baa Yi.-ui.unjd ii speak In de fense of the conjugal harmony of men of large wealth. Himself a multi-millionaire, he has the courage to assume that rich men love their families quite as well as poor men, and that the emo tions of love, and constancy, and devo tion are not necessarily completely sup pressed because a man hHS had the fortune to add to his Income and ac cumulate wealth beyond that of the average citizen. The special point of his argument Is that only the people of wealth and distinction are singled out for opprobrium or ridicule when the marriage bells are a little out of tune. Nobody cares how often or how vio lently Mr. and Mrs. Pauper quarrel or how quickly they betake themselves to the divorce court, but let the slightest cloud appear In the matrimonial sky of Mr. and Mrs. Dives and the whole country Is profoundly agitated. All the details of the dreadful affair are eagerly sought, and many are the Im proving morals deduced In eloquent dis courses from the pulpit or at the fire side. The habit of generalizing from specific Instances Is not a safe one. All millionaires do not divorce their loyal wives to marry chorus girls, and all women of wealth do not suspect their husbands of losing every tie of family love and obligation. Even In Pittsburg great riches are not syuony-, mous with marital Infelicity, and the proportion of rich men who quarrel noisily with their wives aud bnally di vorce them Is extremely small. It Is undoubtedly true that the married lite or the rich Is spiced with differences of opinion, but It is probably equally true that the proportion of divorces Is much larger among the poorer than among the wealthier classes, though the tu mult excited thereby may be nothing. For people who reason Intelligently It was not necessary that Mr. Vauderbilt should explain the human and praise worthy emotions of the rich or try to demonstrate that they are controlled by passions which govern those In less opulent circumstances. But It was nat ural enough, perhaps, that he should feel the Injustice of the arraignment of all millionaires, as enemies to mar riage propriety aud that he should speuk as a representative of the class so arraigned. Now an Antl-Expanalonlat. A Virginia mountaineer, who had strayed to Richmond on an excui'slos, aud who, as his holiday progressed, be came rather hilarious, grew overconfi dent of his e,wn greatness. "Gentlemen,"- he said, "I kin lick any man in Richmond." No one tried to, dispute the assertion, and he tried again. "Gentlemen," he said, "I kin lick anv man In the whole State of Vlrglnny." The words were hardly out of h's mouth before a tall, sinewy man from his own part of the State entered the game and gave the bolster a good thrashing. ' The mountaineer had a sense of hu mor. He slowly picked himself and faced the group to which he had boait ed. "Gentlemen," he said, "I am now ready to acknowledge that I klvered to-i much territory In that lost statement" Baltimore Sun. Penalty Redd I see In Germany the Kai ser's chief chauffeur must motor through life under the Imposing title of "oberhofwagoufuehrer." Greene What's the matter? Had he been speeding? Yonkers Statesman. There's nothing quite so foolish as an angry fool. LAEGEST EAILWAY VIADUCT IN TEE WCELD. - . MA Mi " mimmmmmm BUILDING THE HIGHLAND CREEK VIADUCT. The largest transportation structure In the world the Richland Creek viaduct, on the Indianapolis Southern Railroad, near Bloomiugton has Just been completed. The total length of the structure is 2,215 feet, and the great est height from the water level is 158 feet Viaducts exist that are higher, and some that are longer, but none equal the Richland Creek structure In height and length combined. The Indianapolis Southern Is the new line that has been constructed from Indianapolis to a connection with the main line of the Illinois Central and will be operated by the latter company. A REMARKABLE ACCIDENT. Motorcycle's Wild nun Along a Ver tical Surface. One of the most peculiar Incidents of the kind ever known occurred recently In Paris In the course of a motor cycle race. By means of the skillful joining of photographs taken especially for the purpose the Incident Is clearly set forth In the accompanying Illustration, taken from the Illustrated London News. The race was run by two competitors, Pemette and Contant. Ternctte fell, and his body and hl9 motor cycle occu pied nearly all the track. Contant, In his endeavor to avoid his comrade's body, took the outside course and was swept up to the palisade, which his machine climbed until It reached the top of the "u" in the word "Humber." At a speed of fifty miles an hour he coutinued his course upon the vertical plane until he reached the top of the second "e" in the word "Eadic." At that point the machine leaped above the barrier and swept along literally on the breasts and heads of the spectators until the front wheel struck a post, and 4 i 4 . v ONE OF THE MOST WONDERFUL ACCIDENTS ON RECORD. was smashed. Contant bad only slight wounds a black eye and his right ear slightly torn; and Pemette was not hurt at all. Both were ready to recom mence their dangerous exercise. Two persons were killed, and four were In jured. THUNDER LORE. Ancient Belief aa to the Meanlnac of Kolaea of the Sky. Thunder, just because It is a noise for which there Is no visible cause, has always excited the Imagination of the unscientific; so It Is natural, says the London Chronicle, that the most Out rageous superstitions about storms should date back to the'tlme when ev erybody, more or less, was unscien tific. One old writer explains the belief of his day that a "storm Is said to follow presently when a company of hogges runne crying home," on the ground that "a hogge Is most dull and of a melancholy nature, and so by rea son doth foresee the ralne that Com eth." Leonard Dlggcs, In his "Prog nostication Everlasting" (1550) men tions that "tbunder In the morning sig nifies wind; about noon, rain, and In the evening a great tempest." The same writer goes on to say : 3 J" "Some write (but their ground I see not) that Sunday's thunder should bring the death of learned men', Judges and others; Mondays, the death of women; Tuesday's, plenty of grain; Wednesday's, bloodshed ; Thursday's, plnty of sheep and corn ; Friday's, the slaughter of a great man and other horrible murders; Saturday's, a gen eral pestilent plague and great dearth." After this the gay and lightsome man ner shown by Lord Northampton to ward these grave matters In bis "De fensatlve" Is . most cheering. "it chaunceth sometimes," he writes, "to thunder about that time and season of the yeare when swannes hatch their young, and yet no doubt it is a para dox of simple men to think that a swanne can not hatch without a cracke of thunder." Trollope at Work. It was the customary habit of An thony Trollope, perhaps the most me thodical of well-known English novel ists, to always write with his watch open on his desk. When at work he drilled himself into the practice of W5S ...'(wfkA i writing 250 words every quarter of an hour and placed his watch before him to make sure of completing his thou sand words an hour. He pooh-poohed the Idea of waiting for Inspiration and punctually produced his copy with the regularity of clockwork whatever his mood at the moment He made a cal culation to show that In this way, by working at his desk only three hours dally, he could write ten pages of an ordinary novel a day and finish three novels comfortably each year, m-ol-lope could also write as easily In rail way .carriages while traveling as at his desk, and, as a matter of fact, com posed most of "Barchester Towers," generally considered to be his best novel, In this way. No Matter. Young riaywrlght There's only one trouble with my play ; It falls down at the end. Critic Oh, that won't make any dif ference." ' "Won't?" "No. By the time It gets to the end there wouldn't be anybody left In the audience." Detroit Free Press. If the shoe fits It's a sure sign a woman will ask for a smaller size. INTELLECTUAL NEW YORK. More Reading Done There Than In Any Other City. Boston- may claim the palm for Intel lectuality and real blue-blooded "baked in the bean" cleverness, but there .are few persons who dwell more upon let ters or read more In a lifetime than the average New Yorker, says the New York Press. The New Yorker never stops read ing, from the moment be shuts his flat, door behind him in the morning until he comes back and shuts It behind him again at night The moment be gets downstairs the bellboy bands him his mail or he takes It out of his own letter box as the case may be. It may not contain a personal letter, but there is never a day that he does not receive from one to three or four advertise ments, booklets, pamphlets or circulars. He always glances over these at least once, and by the time he has finished he has reached the corner and Is buying his morning newspaper.' As there Is a newspaper issued about every hour of the day In New- York City and many men try to devour them all the New Yorker spends a good many hours over his pink, yellow or burnt orange sheet If he happens to finish one of these while on a street car or elevated train he cannot glance up with out seeing a dozen advertisements along the Hue above the windows waiting to be read. These glare at him so stead fastly and furiously that he cannot fall to read them sooner or later. But, If one's eyes are tired and he shuts them to the street car ads, or turns them to ward the street, the spell Is still upon him. Signs, big and little; quick-lunch signs, hotel signs, tailor shop signs; bootblacks, barbers, theaters all have their signs; millions of them, like mi crobes. Then there .are the names of the streets on the lamp posts as be flashes by. There Is an almost uncontrollable desire to read them as well as the num bers on the automobiles which glare at you and the newsstand signs teeming with vari-colored ads and the billboards and the. rubber-neck coaches and the sandwich men. By the time the New Yorker reaches bis office and begins to open his mail bis eves and brain are tired ; but be goes on all day long, read lug, reading, reading about baby pow der and fancy preserves and canned soups and health foods and cold cream and hair reuewers, etc., and then the Bostonlan sneers because we have no time er Inclination left for reading mere books. QUEER WAY OF SMOKING. Weat Indiana Put Lighted End of Cigar In Month. Visitors to the West Indies and tha Spanish main have often noticed the na tive negro carrying a thlu, dark object, like a very long cigarette or slender ci gar, In his mouth, and If these visitors look log enough they would see smok Issuing occasionally from between tho full, red lips of a buxom matron or a dried-up granny, says the New York neraiu. But even the most observant eo.uld see no light on the end of the ci gar smoked by the natives of the trop ics. That Is not to be wondered at how ever, for the reason that it Is the cus tom or the natives In that Dart of tha country to smoke with the lighted end inside the mouth. That is curious, of course, but not as remarkallle as it sounds. Most of the women, who are ail great smokers, work very hard. They coal ships, load bananas and do me Kina or work usually done by men. hen on the docks, where thev mak hundreds of trips a day from the shii to the coal yard or fruit cars, there Is generally a strong breeze blowing and It would be almost impossible to keen n cigar lighted in the teeth of a stiff trade wind. Besides, these hard toil ers, who earn a few pence or a shilling a day, according to the amount of eontt or fruit they carry, could not afford to take the time to keep their tobacco lighted, so they hit upon the scheme of protecting the light by keeDlne It in the mouth and thus enjoying a smoke witnout trouble or loss of time. They have been doing this for so many years that the older ones are experts and never Durn their tongues or the Inside of their mouths and the younger wom en soon get the hang of It The cigars they -smoke are liannllir made of native tobacco and fashioned very rudely. They are about the size of a lead pencil. The Braaa Knocker. An editor looked up from his dog eared copy of "Lorna Doone." "I've read this book about eight times," he said. "What first attracted me to It was a remark of the Arch bishop of Canterbury. In England, some years ago, I saw the archbishop distribute some prize books to school boys. One of the books) was 'Lorna Doone, and as he handed It out tho archbishop said : ."'I went to school with the writer of this book. As he was a little young er than me, when he mlbhehaved I used to knock him on the head with a brass hammer.' " Washington Star. The act of forgiving doesn't alwara jtake away the power of memory.