LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
C T. SOULE. Publisher
TOLEDO ORB JON
Naturally a man would rather part
bUJialr than part with It
After hearing some men talk you are
surprised at the small hats they wear.
Russia has had an earthquake, but It
failed to shake any of the grand dukes
loose.
Always be polite to everybody. But
don't let that Interfere with your get
ting your fair share.
Rejiorts from Cuba say the treasury
Is full to bursting. It will be well to
keep a sharp eye the revolutionists.
The blood-is-thlcker-than-water sentl
meut doesn't seem to apieal very
strongly to Englishmen of the Swetten-mun-Slr
Alfred Jones type.
Dr. Wiley says cold meat Isn't good
after three mouths. Some of the cold
meat served at boarding-houses doesn't
taste good after three duys.
The man who says blondes will dls
apieur In COO years has perhaps over
looked the fact that the drug stores ex
pect to be working right along.
A bank Is now issuing $23 bills, but
as they will be Just as scarce as all
other kinds, the change does not appeal
to the average breud-wluuer.
A western political club Is said to
have adopted the strawberry as Its em
blem. Then the members ought to
know each other by their strawberry
marks.
It may be true, as scientists allege,
that the man of the future will be tall-,
er. But the man of the present who
dabbles In futures usually finds himself
shorter.
Germany Is becoming aroused to the
necessity of putting a stop to robberies
tin railway trains. Is the train boy
equally piratical and unconscionable
over there?
Some of the people of Porto Rico are
talking of "winning liberty with sword
and gun from the servitude Imposed by
the United States." It may be neces
sary for Taft to pack his grip again.
The secret of Senator Beverldge's
great Interest In children has been dis
covered. Somebody who has been dig
ging Into his record has found that Mr.
Beverldge was cyice a child himself.
The Chicago university is said to
have received from Sir. Rockefeller,
lu round numbers, alout $10,000,000.
The least It can do to show its grati
tude Is to discover an elllclent hulr restorer.
The circus freaks are reported to be
forming a union. The word "circus"
will, of course, bur from membership
a good many people who nre going up
nnd down this country posing as reformers.
British merchants proiose to demand
Indemnities for the losses they expect
to sustain through the suppression of
the opium tralllc In China. The British
merchant continues to regard It as an
outrage when an uplift of any kind In
terferes with his profits.
gaged In the same kind of work. To a
certain eitert this may be true; that Is,
women do feel that they are still serv
ing an apprenticeship In undertaking
work that has been the exclusive field
of men for generations. But as wom
en have been housekeepers since the
world began and as they are as faith
ful and steadfast in this profession In
the present time as they were centuries
ago It seems safe to argue that a
similar thing may be said of them years
hence in commenting on their success
in business.
Alfred Mosely, the English philan
thropist, Is a warnl friend of America,
lie has shown bis appreciation of this
country In a number of convincing
ways. He has sent several special
commissions across the water In order
that Englund might be Improved by
reason of. the advances made In Amer
ica. He has given added Impetus to
the schools of England by sending many
teachers to the United States to ob
serve and learn. He himself bus
studied this country from many points
of view, and studied It not from the
standpoint of a hostile critic but from
that of one who seeks to know In or
der to improve himself. For these rea
sons the opinions of Mr. Mosely are
entitled to greut respect, and when he
expresses his belief that the high stand
ard of living Is a real peril to Amer-
n It is worth while to consider the
abject. This high living often ap
proaches ruthless extravagance, he
snys, the luxuries of yesterday being
Counted the necebhiUes of to-duv. A re
action Is bound to come, and when It
does It will be attended by disaster.
o one can doubt that Americans, as a
rule, live well. But they can afford to.
home of them nre spending all they
make, some more than they make, but
others have accounts lu the savings
banks to show that they are not un
mindful of the possible "rainy day"
ahead of them. There are .some fea
tures of present American social con
ditions which are distinctly gratifying
and which are working directly against
the dangers which appear on the sur
face when a foreigner looks at some
particular phase of life. The danger
from the high living does not seem so
Important as the other suggestion that
American prosperity is leadine to in
efficiency and corruption. "In bvgone
years," Mr. Mosely notes, "one was im
pressed with the thorough way in which
everything was done and every detail
thought out, but the same is not true
to-day. On the contrary, ' there are
signs that everything Is becoming slip
shod. Work Is Inefficiently done and
Dncuy nnlshed." That Is a common
charge brought by foreigners against
American methods. It Is said that we
do not build for all time but for a few
years only. It Is said that our prod
ucts are not comparable for nicety and
precision with the output of the manu
facturing establishments of the old
world. We have been fairly content
with the results when American made
goods have come Into competition with
those of other nations, and yet even
this good record should not blind us if
there is such a marked deterioration lu
workmanship that It Is noticed by a
careful observer. Mr. Mosely thinks
everything overdone and overcrowded.
Everybody appears to be in too great a
hurry, so that in the race for success
and wealth many of the former eood
characteristics of the country are dis
appearing. But the same things have
been noted by travelers for a hundred
years. Americans have always been In
a hurry.
A committee of English and Ameri
can admirers of the poets Keats and
Shelley have purchased the house In
Rome In which Keats died, In 1821.
Shelley, who occupied a house oppo
site, was drowned In 1822. It Is plan
ned to make the Keats house a memo-
rial of the two poet, and to gather In
It a collection of books, . manuscripts
and portraits relating to them and their
works. The memorial association also
purposes assuming the care of the
graves of the poeta at the Trotestaut
cemetery In Rome.
The proposition of President McCrea
to Increase the age at which men may
enter the employment of the Pennsylva
nla railroad to 45 years Is recognized as
the result of the scarcity of labor. It
would be correct to recognize that the
scarcity Is In Its ratio to the demand.
There are more lnborers, skilled and
unskilled, In the country thon ever be
fore, but the demand for their sen-Ices
lias Increased In greater projwrtlon
than the supply. We need not claim
that there Is not much Improvement yet
to be sought But It Is certainly the
historical fact that the competitive era
lias, as one of Its chief results, wrought
en immense Improvement In the com
pensatlon of labor and Its Industrial
liberty.
Someone, discussing the ways
women In business recently, says
partial explanation of their success
many callings Is due to their thinking
they are still on trial, which leads them
to take a great deal more pains t(
please their patrons than do nn en
NEW STAB ON THE FLAG.
The War Department has ordered
the alteration of the flag made nec
essary by the admission of Oklahoma
Into the Union, now on aggregation of
forty-six States. The department has
also fixed on the spot for the new star,
and now flagmakers are hard at work
preparing new banners with an addi
tional star lu the lower right-hand cor
ner. It Is now In order for every patri
otic Anierican either to provide himself
with a new flag or to add a star to the
old one.
An Anti-Third Termer.
Judge You've got a bad record.
You've already served two terms In the
penitentiary. What have you got to
say why sentence should not be passed
upon you?
Prisoner My constitutional rights,
Judge. It's the unwritten law that no
man should have a third term. Kan
sas City Times.
When a woman raises her sons In
what she considers the right way, It Is
never with a view to making good bus
bands of them.
REV. nR. HILI.IS.
JUSTICE THE NEED OF THE HOUR.
By Rev. Newell Dwlght Hlllls.
Among the dark problems of life
we must make a place for the Injus
tice that noble men sometimes suf
fer. Long ago Jerusalem crucified
Its Saviour, Athens poisoned its mas
ter, Florence burned Its hero, but to
day every town and village holds at
least one martyr to cruel and unjust
judgments.
Ours is a world In which the clerk suffers In the finan
cial failure of his employer ; where the officeholder Is
ruined by the political mistakes of the narty leader;
where the child Is destroyed by the sins of the father.
Employers sometimes suffer grievously by reason of
economic events over which they have no control ; some
times the citizen suffers through the sensational press;
sometimes the author or editor suffers through cruel
criticism over events for whose evil consequences he Is
In no wise responsible. This problem of unjust judg
ment and this bearing of injustice in silence Is one of
the hardest problems that man experiences. Injustice
public men have to endure In silence.
The need of the hour Is for justice and truth In Judg
ment. The full faetB are perhaps never before any of us.
But In general men are far better than they are bejjeved
to be. The good In the world outweighs the 111. The
prophet saw man ss part gold and part clay, but the
proportion of gold Is more and more and the clay is less
and less. The world has hnd too many teachers pois
oned unjustly. Too many reformers martyred without
cause. Too many heroes who are victims of malignity,
jealousy and hate. There Is too much good In the
worst men and too much bad In the best men to leave
any place for Injustice, harshness or cruelty.
THE MATTER OF FIRE INSURANCE.
By F. W. Fitzpatrlck.
Since 1SG0 e have paid In Insurance pre
miums $3,022,000,000, or Just In the last ten
years, $1,G10,88T.,0U0. In 1305 we carried Into
the Insurance companies, over $196,000,000 In
premiums and got hackin paid losses the sum
of $95,000,000, which was supposed to console
us for the loss of about $180,000,000 In smoke
and fully that much more for fire departments
and other alleged "protection." San Fran
cisco offers the latest Illustration of how much Insurance
reully does protect. Property to the value of fully
$350,000,000 was destroyed; the city and country suf
fered a business loss by the fire In that city of nearly a
billion dollars; It will take at least $12,000,000 to clean
up the city,, and undoubtedly $400,000,000 and twenty
years' time to rebuild it. For all of that terrific loss
and cost the citizens will receive from the Insurance
companies $132,000,000, a goodly portion of which sum
they themselves contributed.
It Is late In the day, but at last people are beginning;
to, learn that of all "Insurance" the best Is to build prop
erly In the first place, to construct so that Internal fires
or conflagrations can Inflict but the minimum of damage.
And It can be done so easily and at such sjlgbt additional
cost above that of the most flimsy construction. Why,
take for Instance, the Board of Underwriters' laboratory
In Chicago, the most perfectly fireproof building In the
country, with all the "frills" and accessories that we
have been clamoring for for years to make buildings
more thoroughly proof against fire, and, in spite of all
that, It has cost but a trifle over 10 per cent more than
If It had been built In the usual shoddy way. Consid
ering Its longevity! freedom from repairs, and the elim
ination of Insurance, or, nt least, the payment of heavy
premiums, and that building within a few years of Its
erection means an actual and great economy to the Indi
vidual, and from the day of its completion a godsend to
the community.
PURE FOOD IS GREAT TRIUMPH.
By P. M. Hannev.
Well and properly administered, the pure
food law cannot fall to work an immense Im
provement In the condition of the general peo
ple, to elevate and dignify the tone of the
nation. It Is indeed high time for It to come,
for bullous and plesoiug Is tlie lieud of IU If
there Is one thing In the world that needs
looking after and repairing It is the American
stomach. It has lone been the most nhnnwi
and outraged of organs, with the result that we have
almost become a nation of dyspeptics. It has been the
victim of legalized wholesale poisoners before whom the
Borgias of Italy and all other Infamous toxlcologists of
history fade Into utter Insignificance. There Is no more
ominous and appalling sight in the world than the In
numerable red lights that flash from the drug stores of
American cities; they are the danger signals that tell
every citizen of the continual menace to health and life
that lurks In his dally food. '
The world keeps moving, and the march of science and
civilization goes on over shams, frauds, and humbugs of
every kind. Without reviving the days when every man
smoked his own bacon and grew his own cabbage, we
are getting so that every man may obtain genuine' and
wholesome diet, be he carnivorous or vegetarian, that
every ninn may know what he is eating, even If he be
newly married and his wife does the cooking. The era
of the wooden nutmeg Is gone, the era of the painted
strawberry is going. The clouds of gastronomic doubt
and danger drift away behind; the sun of health and
digestion glows In front; and soon, according to the signs,
we may reach the happy period when the food color
artists cease from troubling and the adulterators are
at rest.
GOLD MINING. IN SIBERIA.
SIBERIAN PEASANTS WORKING THEIR OWN MINE.
Siberia Is phenomenally rich lu the precious metals and has developed a
system of mining peculiarly its own. A curious feature Is the way the ground
is prospected and opened up by the peasant "trlbutors," as they are called.
Permission Is readily granted to sink shafts wherever they like, subject to
the conditions that they can only go" down as far as water-level, usually about
sixty feet, ond that all the quurtz extracted must be treated nt the mill of the
ground landlord, and all gold extracted sold to him nt a rate previously de
cided upon, leaving a fair profit for the peasant and an extra good one for
the landlord. There is no philanthropy about the transaction, and the peasant
Is In no way bound to accept the terms. No charge whatever Is made for
the use of mill. The field Is. thus practically developed for nothing rich
reefs which would probably remain undiscovered are opened by up "trlbu
tors." who frequently make fortunes out of rich strikes. The mine owner
is thus continually In touch with all that Is going on, and duly records the
results of the operations for his own benefit In the mining operations women
as well as men do their share of the work.
NOVEL CURES FOR SNORING.
Cane of Ofl'endlnir Policeman 8ug
resta Remedlea (or DUeane.
Very many of oar readers will be
Interested In the ultimate fate of the
unfortunate snoring policeman who has
been banished from bis fellow sleepers
and caged ut night in sound-proof quar
ter. Perhaps the dreadful Infirmity,
now that It has the official recognition
of his superiors, may call for some
suitable scientific treatment If so the
great army of snorers can covertly
watch the outcome with all the cunning
ond complacency of undiscovered trans
gressors. We are glad we can make the start
with a perfectly fair case, for convic
tion of the nuisance Is always most dif
ficult to obtain. The culprit must be
caught with the snore on him and In
the presence of reliable ear witnesses.
No one has ever been known to ac
knowledge his fault coluntarlly. On
the contrary, one of the surest signs of
the confirmed malady Is his persistent
denial of its existence. He is not satis
fied to plead lack of premeditation and
absence of accountability, but openly
Impugns the motives of his clamorous
accusers. The worst of it is that on ull
other matters he Is perfectly reason
able. This makes it extremely diffi
cult to obtain his consent for treatment
of any sort.
We speak now of snorers as a class
The only easy way Is to tackle them
when they ennnot resist. There are
various approved methods not only in
genious but effective for temporarily
arresting the sonorous, rasping and vi
brating respiratory spasms. The most
popular, perhaps, Is the elbow thrust
In the ribs. Next comes the gentle
pinch of the nose, whereby part of the
wind current is shut off. Some have ad
vised that the nose be clasped by a
clothespin even before retiring, but un
fortunately the subject of the experi
ment almost invariably demurs. Others
have recommended sitting on the chest,
but this Is rather a hazardous proceed
ing for both parties, ana so also is a
temporary twist of the windpipe, un
less performed by skilled manipulator.
But no mntter what ts done the dis
ease Is well known to recur indefinite
ly. In most instances death appears to
be the only common relier for the peace
disturber and his surviving relatives.
But the end should never lie listened.
The poor policeman for the present can
be safe In his cupoln. but how long re
mains to be seen. Twice last summer
the place was struck by lightning. The
main hope now Is that man nnd cupola
may both niter their batdts before It be
too late. Meanwhile the neigli'iorhood
must plug Its ears and wait New
York Herald.
. Odd Habits of Pheaaanis.
There Is some curiosity as to how
many English pheasants will be raised
in Kansas this year. The average num
ber of birds raised by each pair of par
ent birds Is sixty. With 2,000 In the
State this would mean about 7,000,000
birds In two years. The woods and
fields would be overrun with them nt
this rate. However, there nre many
foes of the birds nnd they nre killed
every year In great numbers. The sleet
storms nre particularly hard on them,
as the water freezes on their long plu
mage and they nre unable either to fly
or run fast. When In this condition
they pre easy prey to dogs and wolves.
One of the queerest habits the birds
have is to migrate In the late winter
thirty-five miles. It Is claimed that the
birds always migrate exactly thirty
five miles nnd always to the south. The
young never stay where they were
hatched, but make this move as soon
as they nre large enough. Naturalists
have never been ablo to explain this.
The only theory advanced Is that tho
birds know If they stay where they
were hatched the country would soon
be overstocked with them. Kansas
City Journal.
Over a Million Arrivals.
The total number of cabin and steer
age passengers landed at the port of
New York during the year 1900 by all
the trans-Atlantic steamship lines was
1.159,551. In 1005 992,005 were landed,
which gives the year just ended the rec
ord by a margin of 167,480.
You can live way off on a lonely
farm, but trouble will come to you out
there.
A critic Is a man who couldn't hav
dons It Wmselt.