LIKCQLN COUNTY LEADER
RfCOlLINS. Edkar
r N HAYDC.N. Manager
TOLEDO..
.OREGON
Captain Amundsen will use polar
bear fof TTa dash to the pole. This
sounds logical.
The simplest of simple live Is said
to be tbe one beet thing for the editor.
Let us read the proof.
It will be seen that tbe deceased
wives' sisters have begun to marry
their deceased sinters' husbands.
Surprising bow many of these suc
cessful air ship trips end In tbu ma
chine being carted home In a farmer's
wagon.
That Chicago family which has lived
In a motor car- for a year may have
been driven to it by the servant girl
Question.
The New York woman who Is living
with a bullet In her brain Is going to
have considerable trouble getting it off
her mind.
Without wishing to work off a pun,
we would rise to remark that It seems
about time for civilization to apply the
strap to Morocco.
One scientist's guess as to the condi
tions that prevail nr the j'Tit far
probably Is as good as any other sci
entist's, If not a little better.
Captain Maban has just published
another book on the science of wr. In
spite of the efforts of peace congresses
such books always seem to be timely.
A New York man who sat down on
en Inverted carpet tack recover&l his
powers of speech which had been lost
for fourteen years. Guess what was
the first thing he said.
The "Esperanto waltz" has arrived.
It Is probably Intended to enable the
waltzers to say something more than
"Isn't tbe music lovely?" or "What a
epleudld floor this Is."
Tbe Kataastaasan Kagalanggalang
Katlpunan Is the name of a Filipino se
cret society. If the passward is of like
length they must have hard work get
ting a quorum before the hour of ad
journment .'
A man and his wife quarreled over
a feather bed ; the man's wife left bun,
and he went out into his back yatd
and blew his brains out Now he has
no use for the feather bed. How easily
ome things are settled, after all.
New York millionaires are buying
homes in Paris. Where will the East
ern movemeut cease? The millionaire
makes his money In the West aud can
not be satisfied until he has a home on
Fifth avenue or near if Then he be
gins to want to live In London, and
after London Paris apjeals to him.
From Paris he may go to Turkey or
Persia.
Numerous inscriptions In Latin were
cut on the new building for the Depart
ment of Agriculture In Washington.
The head of the department discovered
the other day that some of thorn are In
bad Latin, and ordered them all erased
and recut In pluln English. There Is
no better reason for Inscribing Auierl
"can public buildings with Latin than
there would have been for putting In
scriptions In Greek or Sanskrit on the
public buildings In ancient Koine. The
theory that there Is a peculiar virtue in
a foreign tongue Is widely held. It
goes so fnr as to lead to the sinning of
French translations of German and
Italian oieras In American opera
houses, translations made at the de
mand of music-loving Frenchmen, who
Insist that they shall understand the
language Bung to them.
There Is a large class of citizens In
every country who distrust banks or
dislike to go to them with small sums.
The result Is that a great deal of
money Is kept out of circulation by
hoarding. In the United States the
amount thus carried on the person or
secreted Is not less than $500,0 K),000.
Its owners would be willing to let the
government have the money, and there
would be nq panicky runs. At any
postofflce funds can be withdrawn at
any time, so the account Is virtually a
national letter of credit. In England
the rate of Interest paid Is 2 per
cent and the minimum deposit received
Is 1 shilling, though there is a provis
ion for penny savings, by means of
cards on which stamps are affixed a
penny at a time up to a shilling, when
a regular deposit can be made. No
one can deposit more than $250 In any
one year, nor more than $750 as a to
tal, and when the principal and Inter
est reach $1,000 Interest ceases, which
rule Induces the depositor to Invest his
$1,000 otherwise. By the British sys
tem the empire Is tbe bank, with every
postofflce a branch and all postmasters
genta. Through' their postofflce the
people may Invest In national securi
ties. Insure their lives or .buy govrn
ment annuities.
The older leaders of the woman suf
frage movement In the United States
had to suffer many serious disappoint
ments. In fact, after devoting their
lives to tbe cause, they found that It
had made little progress, and to-day
Ida Ilusted Harper, writing for the
North American Review, declares that
though there has been the longest and (
hardest struggle for it here the sue-1
cess of the effort has been small. She
says that It does not tend "to stlinu-1
late an American woman's national
pride to reflect that this may be the
last of civilized countries to grant
women a voice In their own govern
ment" And she adds: "Let this fact
be remembered It Is the only on
where women have been left to fight
this battle alone, with no moral, finan
cial or political support from the men."
This rebuke comes after a review ol
tbe fight for woman suffrage through
out the world, from which we mak
the following list of countries that
have granted the demand for It rj
whole or In part: In New Zealand
women have had the full franchise sine
1893. All the Australian states exeepl
Victoria have conferred the state fran
chise on women, and women have full
federal suffrage and the right to sit in
the federal parliament In the sum
mary on Australia we read : "At som
elections not only a larger percentage
but actually a larger number of worn
eu Vuuu of Uit'u have voted. Last year
In Tasmania women outnumbered the
men at every polling station. It la
also everywhere apparent that they
have aroused the men to a new sense
of their political duty." In the Dan
ish colony of Iceland widows and spin
ster who are householders or who
maintain a family or themselves have
a right to vote for parish and town
councils and district boards and visit
ors and are eligible for election to all
the ofllces for which they can vote. In
Finland women have the full franchise
and the office-holding rights of men,
including the right to sit In parlia
ment In Norway women who pay
taxes on property to the value of $75
in the country and $110 in the cities
were admitted to the municipal fran
chise In 1301 and made eligible to
serve In the common councils. Later
the parliamentary franchise was grant- '
ed to all who pay taxes on an Income
of $84 In the country and $113 in the
cities. "Wives can vote on the hus
band's Income, and even domestic ser
vants will have an Income large enough
to entitle them to vote." It Is expect-1
eu mm uie concessions already made
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AH APPEAL FOE THE FARM.
By Gov. Hughes ol Neiv Vork.
Yi Den you get out where a man
has a little elbow room and a chance
to develop, be has thoughts of bis
own. His thinking is not supplied
to him ever' night and every morn
ing, and he is less of a machine and
more of a man, so that I do not
think that tbe farmers need to be
looked upon, or want to be looked
upon, as dependents of the State.
They do not come to the State gov
ernment asking aims. They are self
reliant they are Intelligent
What we want in connection with
agriculture is what we waut In con
nection with every other field of no-
oov. hughes. ble effort We want training, we
want Intelligence, we want scientific method, we want
direction, we want the way shown, and then the man
can walk In It There Is no reason why the same care
and Intention and skill and scientific consideration should
not be devoted to agriculture as to Industry and the
technical trades.
The men who are running away 'from the farm too
frequently make a mistake, and some day and the day
Is rapidly approaching our young men, in larger num
ber, will wake up to the fact that they have a pretty
good chance on the farm, and that they may be to a
greater degree Independent and happy In life If they stay
where their happy lots were cast In connection with their
fathers' farm or another which they may be able to
procure.
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THE LIBERTY OF SOCIETY WOMEN.
By Dr. Emit Reich.
Are society women free? And, if so, is
that liberty conducive to things evil or good?
Most society women would, there Is, little
doubt, say that they now Infinitely are more
free than their ancestors used to be. If that
liberty is taken simply from the material side,
It cannot be denied. Society women are al
lowed to go out when and where they like.
They have club's of their own ; they Invite
men to their clubs on their own hook ; they go out to
lectures, dinners, receptions, or concerts alone ; they carry
on correspondences of their own; they not Infrequently
earu their own livelihood. Nearly all the externals of
liberty are there. However, llbertyla not an external
or material thing; It Is entirely spiritual.
The admiration aud social locking up to that non
society women Invariably devote to "gentlemen" Is a
cause of failure which does not exist In good society.
The woman that Is at once shocked by any slight remark
of general politeness is the woman that Is easily shaken.
In society, women born to It are neither easily shocked
by animated words nor easily shaken. Fewer liberties,
and more liberty is this not a goal worthy of the re
formers of society? Fewer clubs and lesser club life.
Society women In the present system of their liberty are
much envied, even admired, but not sufficiently respected.
Less outward liberty would lead to more solid support
OVERCAPITALIZATION OF RAILROADS.
By Francis Stetson.
So far as relates to the rates of railroads la
competition and under State regulation, there
Is no possibility of hnrm from overcapitaliza
tion. In every other particular indicated by
the President any evil from overcapitalization
would exist aud operate In respect of stock
corporations generally, whether organized aa
railroads or for Industrial purposes.
So far as concerns the Issue of bonds, prom
ising to pny sums excecling the original consideration
of the bonds, It Is to be observed that In tbe case of cor
porations, Just as In the case of Individuals, this Is a
matter of financial credit
The corporation or the individual in good credit can
borrow at a low rate and without discount; while to
induce loans, those in poor credit must make concessions
Inversely large. Under such conditions excessive bonded
indebtedness does not constitute overcapitalization; and
If It be an evil, It Is an evil expressly permitted by law.
That it Is an evil when Incurred for" any purpose not
strictly within the lawful purposes of the corporation,
or for an amount Impairing the ability or the corpora
tion to carry on its legitimate business, I fully recognize.
Reasonable safeguards should be provided against such
evil, and should be accepted cheerfuly by corporate man
agers. In this direction the provisions of the so-called public
utilities bill, requiring a commission's prior approval of
all railroad bonds, as well as of Issues of railroad stocks,
are eminently proper.
IN OCTOBER.
I dreamed one day an army passed along
With many colored banners streaming
free
And many rounds of wild and martial
song;
In all it seemed most fair and gay to
me.
will soon result In the abolition of the An1 ret I said, they do but go to death,
proimrty qualification and the admis- Thu bright array. They soon will
lon of women to the polls on the same 8?attereJ be
terms with men. In Sweden widows " er au meaQ0W laDas- ln me"J
and single women and married women r,t utltn a At. . a a
,,, ... , I Of life all fled who marched so proud-
who pay taxes on tholr own property jy Dy.
have the municipal franchise on the
same terms as men. Some form of And then it seemed I was but dreaming
woman suffrage Is enjoyed In all the. half;
provinces of Canada, and In Great For ,ow amJ cIear
Britain -women have the right to par- Beside my ear
tlclpate In local elections. This Is a Rang autumn'8 mocking laugh.
statement of results -actually aecom-' T , . . . . , T. .... .
pllshed, but it does not fully indicate 1 lkeda"d ,o! 1 De" 'herfwlse 5
. ' "lu";ul-e i gaw tne gay gabnotn of the trees
the progress of the movement since the Flaunt reds and golds beneath the Octo-
campalgnlng la being carried on with
great vigor In the chief countries of the
world and Is making recruits rapidly.
Origin of Pin Tobacco.
In the Jury room at the court house
a few days ago a farmer said, as he
took a chew of tobacco:
"All the difference in the world in
tobacco. I've tried some twenty dif
ferent kinds, and none Is ns good as
that we used to make ourselves down
on the farm. We would take a maple
log while 'twas green and bore a dozen
holes In It with n- two-Inch
They were our molds. We selected our
choicest tobacco and soaked It for a
week or more in wild honeyv Then we'd
take the leaf to the log, get a good hick
ory 'tamping' 4stiek and go to work.
A little ball of the honey-soaked to-
bacco would be put in an auger hole
and tamped Jn with the stick and a
hammer. We'd pound It In solid. Ball
after bull would be rammed ' In and
pounded until the whole became a
solid plug. When the hole was nearly
full we would ,Hund In the plug nnd
then the log would he put away to
seasnn. As the wood dried the. moisture
would be drawn from, the tobacco. And
when It was spilt the sweetest tobacco
ever made was taken from It. We call
ed it 'plug' tobacco and that's where
the name originated." Kansas City
Star.
A Illatorlan's Joke.
Macaulay Is not usually regarded as
a humorous writer, but In his "History
of England" he perpetrates the follow
ing In relating the death of Charles II.
He says: "Several of the prescriptions
have been preserved. One of them la
signed by fourteen doctors. He recov
ered bis senses, but he was evidently
In a situation or extreme danger."
What a lot of rot there Is in the
newspapers I And tills la some more
of it
A womancan abuse a man, and still
Iotc him.
ber skies,
And heard the stirring anthem of the
breeze ;
I saw tbe haze like clouds of azure dust
Afloat in air where many feet have
trod ;
I. saw the iron-weed and mullein thrust
Tall spears mid lines of gleaming golden-rod.
There came a menace of drear winter
then ;
I felt a smart
Within my heart
And autumn mocked again.
Bessie Hendricks in the Critic.
YET THERE WAS NONE FOB HIM.
A PERSONAL AFFAIR
A small, brown, silky spaniel was
running frantically In and out pausing
now and then to raise his sad little eyes
to the faces of the unheeding shop
pers. Suddenly he gave a wild Jump
and a yelp of recognition It was not
She coming up the block, but a famil
iar face a friend. Scampering for
ward, the little dog Jumped Joyously
up In front of the approaching man,
now at his knee, now under his feet
But the big man paid no attention
until he found farther progress an im
possibility, then he gave an impatient
kick.
"Get out of here, you " He glanced
down at the small offender. " Ton my
soul, I believe you're Tags," he added,
quickly, .picking up the curly ball to
avoid crushing It. The dog's delight
knew no bounds; he licked the man's
hands, be reached a dozen ' times to
lick his face, and, foiled In the attempt,
cuddled up against the big arm, and
was content rescued!
The big man looked keenly up and
down the thoroughfare.
"Tour mistress, Tags," he whispered
''where I she?"
Slowly he walked down the long
block, looking eagerly from left to
right, until he reached Stearns'; there
he hesitated, and suddenly turning,
hailed a hansom.
"By George !" he muttered, "I won't
do it I'll hold you for ransom, old
chap, and a big one at that We're
lucky dogs!"
What a flood of memories, what a
sea of visions, did that tiny creature re
call, as they drove slowly -up-town. But
most persistent of all, she stood before
him as he had last seen her white,
angry, and determined. The trouble
had all come so unexpectedly, like a
flash from an azure sky; '.and Just as
suddenly had she sailed for foreign
shores, leaving him crushed, stunned
with no hope. Now -she had returned ;
here was animated evidence, and a me
dium of reconciliation. Fate was hold
ing wide an open door, but how to en
ter to pass to conquer I
Ideas budded, blossomed, and died;
and arriving at home and the conclu
sion that she would undoubtedly adver
tise her loss, he decided to await her
move.
The next morning, as he expected,
half way down the second column of
the paper appeared the following notice:
LOST Thursday afternoon, In vicinity of
oirruv i viiauiei, answering 10 name of
"Tags." Suitable reward. If returned to
, Riverside Drive.
He' smiled grimly, and seating him
self at his desk, penned this reply:
FOUND Thursday afternoon. In vicinity
of Sterns' ; a spaniel, answering to name of
"Tags." Would you consider yourself "ault
able ?" L. W. G.
Sunday seemed long In coming, but
when Jt finally arrived, Lawrence Gor
don was awake nnd calling for his
morning paper long before his accus
tomed hour." He glanced eagerly, hur
riedly, through tho first column, the
second and even the third. Then he
began all over again; slower and with
closer scrutiny, but only to be disap
pointed. The messages were multi
farious; gay, grave, indifferent ones;
sent to as many varied hearts; yet
there was none fof him. He was per
ceptibly chagrined, but perhaps he had
expected too early a reply.
Another day passed, and he grew im
patientas did Tags. Tuesday morn
ing, and no reply. On Wednesday the
following brief but apropos message
appeared :
Tags cries pitifully.
L. W. O.
Must be homesick.
Gordon felfthat she must have seen
not only his first but also his second
appeal, for well he knew that until she
had recovered her pet she would anx
iously scan the column for tidings of
him. Three times, for luck, he would
try ; and, if he failed ! Bah ! there was
no such word as fail. With the cour
age born of despair he wrote his last
entreaty :
Tags Is lonely. So am I.
and get you? U v. u.
Can't we come
And the next morning the first col
umn was headed :
Tags come !
Fannie Elton Morris In Scrap Book.
The Storr of a Shark.
"While cruising among the South Sen
Islands thirty odd years ago in our
private yacht, the Haute Flyer, we
were much annoyed by a large Irish
setter shark that persisted in following
the ship. During the night the shark
would often climb up on deck and tip
over the garbage can. At one time
Henry Williams, a sailor before the
mast, was bitten on the leg by tho
brute. He nlmed a kick at the shark,
who growled, showed his teeth and
sunk bis fangs in Williams' limb be
fore leaping over the rail into the sea.
One day the cook, annoyed at his
alarm clock which persisted In going
off furiously at all hours of the night
threw the timepiece overboard Tho
shark, always on hand for dainty tit
bits from the galley, took the time of
day at one gulp. For two days after
that we heard the clock going off In
a muffled way from the interior of the
surprised shark, who was often seen
with one fin on his head nnd the other
on the pit of -his stomach, evidently
trying to diagnose his clock case.
We were standing on the stern of
the ship one evening watching th
shark, who was evidently feeling pret
ty sick. Suddenly the clock went off
on him, and the sailors, counting the
strokes, noticed thnt it struck twenty
three. When the shark heard this he
turned up and died before our eyes.
Minneapolis Journal. ' "
Literary Item.
"They say very few authors sleep
more than seven hours a day."
"But think how much-slumber they
furnlsh other people."
Try llTlng on 15 cents a day If yoo
are troubled with dyspepsia.