LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
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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.
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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
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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 :
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"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
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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.