LisliULN HI LEADER
R I COltlNS, Editor
. f N MAVDEN. Manacer
TOLEDO OREGON
It Is fashionable to be thin. Also It
has become tbe fashion to be a little
abort
Traveling by balloon has its disad
vantages. The sleeping accommodations
are exceedingly crude and inadequate.
It is unfortunate for Pat Crowe that
he happens so often to be somewhere
in the neighborhood when a crime is
committed.
That foreign exchange expert who Is
fighting his second divorce suit seems
to have had some experience In domes
tic exchange.
There Is a man in Texas who has
forty children. He probably wishes
that Christmas would come only once
In ten years.
"What becomes of the old horses?"
asks a Wisconsin editor. Don't know,
brother ; but a determined effort Is be
ing made to find what sausage Is com
posed of.
Astronomers report that knots have
appeared In Saturn's rings. Observers
on P ntnrn may have noticed that there
has been an occasional tieup on the
planet of late.
Hereafter nobody will be permitted
to erect In New York a building exceed
ing 250 feet In height Evidently they
don't want to give anybody a chance to
look down on tbe Singer building.
A Scotchman who was surrounded by
wolves in Canada says he succeeded In
caring them away by playing the bag
pipes. It is a well-known fact that
wolves are not easily scared, but we be
lieve the story.
It is reported that one of the beauti
ful Langhorne girls may be wooed and
In time won by Prince Francis of Teck.
Tbe Langhorne family must have been
fortunate enough to avoid being caught
tn the financial blizzard.
An Atlantic City man was ordered by
the court to kiss his wife or go to jail.
He decided to go to Jail. And that
same man, no doubt, once held her
hands and pressed 'bis lips to hers in
spite of her declaration that she would
call for help If he didn't behave.
A Chicago man was insulted on a
street car and asked a stranger to hold
bis overcoat while he thrashed the of
fender. After the fight he discovered
that tbo stranger and his overcoat had
both disappeared. Evidently he had
not been living in Chicago very long.
A fragile and thin-blooded person
who does not enjoy winter, such a win
ter as we frequently have In the north
ern half of the United States, affirms
complalnlngly that the amount of en-
erg, one expends In keeping warm
would suffice to make him president of
a Central American republic. But the
obvious reply Is that a true patriot
would rather be a lamp-post In this
country thnn ruler of any other coun
try on enrth.
The Important fnct Is that electrical
communication without wires has been
established on a large commercial senle
and It Is no longer a scientific toy or n
mere adjunct of navigation. And ull
this hns been accomplished within a
dozen years. There are plenty of llviiif
people who remember that the first sue
gestlon of an ocean cable was received
with Incredulity and that many oxpen
slve failures ensued before success wai
achieved. About forty years ago. I
cost $3 a word to send a cable message
to London, and now the rate Is 25 cents,
It Is likely to be much less In future.
Graceful recognition of one to whom
the first settlers of New England owed
much, if not their very lives, hns re
cently been made by the Rhode Island
commission for marking hlstorlca
Hltes. Over the famous Mnssnwil
spring, In the town of Warren, a tablet
was erected to the great Indian chief
who owned and ruled much of ivlmt
now Massachusetts and Rhode Island
when tho Pilgrims were settling th
- country. One of the sons of Mnssnsolt
was educated at narvard College
Another sun, although ho had not the
advantages of a college education, sue
eccded In nioklng a name for hlmif
He was the famous King Philip, whose
war is a part of colonial history. Mas-
asolt himself was a warm friend oi
the white settlers. The tablet was un
veiled by Princess WootonekanimitP
otherwise known as Charlotte L. Mitch
ell, a lineal descendant of Massasolt.
Hoys will be boys, and that portion
of the life of college boys which Is
conspicuous before the outside world
Is the foolish, thoughtless, selfish, or
4cflnnt jiortlon. But every now and
tbeu something occur to show that tbe
qualities which distinguish college men
In hi tor years are not acquired pud-
diiily with the sheepskin, but have
ln'u latent, but developing, in the col
lege boys. McClure's Magazine 11 hi
t rates this truth in its occount of sotuc
of the details of the fire at Ithaca last
December, which destroyed the fra
ternity borne of one group of Cornel)
University students, causing the deatt
of four of the students. At the saint
time tbe lives of three members ol
the volunteer fire department wen
crushed out by a falling wall, showlni
Unit outside of college and inside th
same devotion, even to tbe end, was t
be found. If the emphasis' is placed
upon the deeds of the college boys II
Is only because the public expects hero
tarn lis a matter of course from tire
men. paid or volunteer, but too manj
people think of college boys as a clasi
by themselves, with little of the ordi
nary responsibilities or virtues ol
young manhood. Of the four boys wh
lost their lives one sacrificed his in m
attempt to save a friend. The othoi
three- were victims. But of the twon- j paratlons for the departure of the
ty-two others who were in the bousi great fleet, under Admiral Evans, for
nt the time the fire broke out and wIk the Pacific. All the vessels which were
escaped wirhvthelr lives not one prove1 to be a part of this greatest naval dem
a coward, and several were severelj onstratlon In our history assembled at
injured in their attempts to save theii ,
fellows. The etory as told in Mo
Clure's is one to make the reader proud
of the behavior of these American boys
The ideal college boy, or, better, tbi
actual college boy, Is not the ponder
ous brute of the cartoonists' fancy oi ! the United States navy dressed ship
tlM silly cigaiel fiend of the comb.!""'1 hpJ"n firing tho President's unltite
opera, but the cool, heroic, unselfish
lad who was revealed in the light oi
the blaze of tbe Chi Psl house ai
lthuca.
Last spring the farmer was Iri trou
ble, almost in despair. Cold weathci
continued bo long that planting wat
delayed until it almost seemed at.
though crop failures In many llnei
must result Under such circumstance!
only the prolongation of warm weathei j
in tbe fall permitted the splendid
crops of tbe year and made tbe farm
er's Thanksgiving the most cheerful
one in the country. Secretary of Agri
culture Wilson has taken the trouble
to estimate what each day of good
weather was worth to the farmers of 1
the land In 1007. In his annual report '
no calculates tne number or Dusneu
of corn and wheat and potatoes and
pounds of cotton, tobacco and sugar to
be assigned to each fine day. Turn
ing it all Into cash, it means $50,000,
000 a day. In 1907 every crop ex
cept hops, says the secretary, will, ac
cording to all the present indications,
considerably exceed In value the aver
age for the past five years. In some
cases the gain is very heavy. Corn,
oats, barley, rye, 'hay, potatoes, rice
and cotton seed show the most strik
ing gains, while for wheat, cotton lint
and buckwheat tho rate of gain would
be notable In any ordinary year.
oat crop was light in volume, 19
cent below the five-year average,
even for If values were so high
put it 20 per cent above tflie average
in the dollors it will sell for. The
grand total of value of farm produce
.for the year is $7,412,000,000.- The
nine last years "have been nil fat years
for the farmer, with a graud total of
$53,000,000,000 of products, but 1907
far exceeds all the others. Talcing
1809 as a basis and ranking the value
of Its farm produce at 100, 1!)03 gave
a value of 125, 1904 of 131, 1905 of
134. 1900 of 145, and now 1907 gives
a value of 157. In making these esti
mates Secretary Wilson hns made lit
may reasonably expect to get. No won
dcr tho secretary, as the spokesmen
of the farmers, Issued a little Thanks
giving proclamation all his own.
Literary Tenant of Illnnrton Tovrer,
Cnnonbury tower in Islington, now
encompassed by London streets, Is all
that's left of the priory of the canons
of St Bartholomew, which once stood
in the midst of a "pleasaunce," as they
used to call such private parks. In the
days subsequent to Its monastic his
tory many persons of literary fame
were tenants of the tower, among them
Euhralin Chambers, originator of tho
modern cyclopedia: Speaker Onslow of
tie If ony use of the extremely high t fi. ' - - "-s i
prices quote,! Just before' the break in HVt
the latter part of Ocofber. He is glv fMW
lng an estimate of what the farmer
the Gregorian era; Wood fa II, the print- of hammers and saws has been cease
cr of the "Junius" letters; the famous Nor has there been any chance
publisher, Mr. Newbery (whose chll- 'r by tlle enlisted men. The
dren's books are bo well known), and , powder magazines have had to be filled
also Oliver Goldsmith. Islington was a
rural suburb, with pleasant country
lanes, In which Charles Lamb dwelt
and where he accomplished the feat of
tiring out a dog In a persistent walk.
Westminster Gazette.
sounded Oninont,
"Your father Bald something about
my staying so late last night, didn't ! more, In case an emergency should
he?" asked the young man. arise while the fleet Is In distant wat-
"Yes," replied the dear girl, "he did ers there' will be no lack of ammuni
say something, but I don't know Just'tlon. No such emergency Is-expected,
what he meant. He said If you didn't ! but tha fleet "will keep its powder dry"
go home earlier hereafter there'd be a
kick coming from him." Philadelphia
Press.
A man may not see much economy
in nt. hnm'n. hut it Is thera all riirht-
at least, be la alway. hearing about lt,r- " u th flower of 0,6 Aurcan
WORLD WATCHES THE
. BIG PACIFIC FLEET.
Greatest Naval Fighting Strength
Under Flag for the Long
Cruise. .
J7L0WEB OF AMERICAN NAVY.
Movement Is Significant, Marking
Transfer of Theater of Action
from the Atlantio.
Not since the war with Spain has
there been such a tense feeling In naval
circles as that which marked the pre-
Hampton Roads.
The President's yacht, the Mayflower,
swung into historic Hampton Roads
bearing President Roosevelt and the
high officials of the Navy Department.
Promptly sixteen huge battleships of
of twenty-one guns each. The May
flower came to anchor In the roadway.
Gigs and cutters put out from each
battleship bearing tbe flag officers to
the Mayflower, where they were receiv
ed on deck by President Roosevelt and
his official party. On their return to
their ships the Mayflower hoisted an
chor and proceeded down the roads to
ward the entrance. Here the little
yacht stood out of the roadway while
the same sixteen battleships passed by
her, decks and fighting tops dressed
and roaring from their guns another
President's salute.
Bands , aborfrd ship played the na
tional airs. This was the farewell tn
the commander-in-chief of the army
and navy to the American battleship
squadrons, which then began their
cruise to the Pacific ocean.
The torpedo flotilla had already
started, as Its progress Is so much
THE
The vessels prominent in the
and a Torpedo Boat Destroyer.
slower than that of the battleships that
two weeks more will be consumed than
by tbe latter In the Journey toward
their destination San Francisco.
All the navy yards of the Atlantic
coast have been busy for weeks in fit
ting out the ships. - At Brooklyn, New
lork, Boston, Norfolk, Philadelphia
rflid Charleston painters, enrpeuters
and machinists have participated In
the great activity. High up on the
smokestacks the paint brushes were
moving back and forth and the sound
; aml tlie quantities wnicn nave wen
taken aboard have caused some specta
tors to wonder what It Is all about.
The large supply of ammunition' Is nec
essary because of the project to have
target practloe on the long Journey.
Then also there will be ninny salutes
I to fire and these will eat up thousands
'of dollars' worth of powder. Further-
while trusting in divine Providence.
Greatest Fighting Strength.
The fleet which Admiral Evans takes
to the Pacific Includes all the new
battleships and the best armored cruls-
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The iliiiw
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Ohlcairo Inter Ocean.
navy, far superior to that which de
stroyed the Spanish fleet nine years
ago. The Louisiana carries the largest
crew 050 officers and men. The Con
necticut, which Is the flagship, Is the
finest ship of the navy, costing $4,000,
000. Among the other battleships are
the Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Vir
ginia, Minnesota, Ohio, Rhode Island,
Kentucky and Vermont. In all there
are 32 battleships and armored cruisers,
besides the flotilla of torjiedo boat de
stroyers, repair and supply ships. The
progress of the fleet will be watched
with Interest by the whole world, and
will be accompanied by the prayer that
no occasion may arise for a display of
that awful power of destruction which
lies within Its guns.
The slgnlflconce of the transfer of
the battleships stamps the event as an
epoch In the history of the United
GREAT AMERICAN PACIFIC SQUADRON.
picture are the Battleships Wash
States. It transfeds the theater of ac
tion of the navy from the Atlantic to
the Pacific Ocean for the first time since
tbe United States became a nation. It
reduces the naval representation of the
country In the Atlantic from second
place to the lowest place among the
naval powers of the world, but It raises
Its representation In the Pacific ocean
to the-hlghest place, where the United
States Is now a poor second. Whether
"for fun or for frolic," as Rear Ad
miral Robley Evans has expressed It,
the battleships upon arrival in the Pa-
ADMIRAL IVANS.' '
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KE'EE YOURSELF."
clflc will do the United States full'
honor.
The date of arrival at Rio Janeiro
Is Jan. 11, 1008, and tbe day of de
parture ten days later. Here the crews
will be alolwed shore leave. Leaving
Rio Janeiro on Jan. 21, tbe fleet will
proceed slowly to Punta Arenas, or
Sand Point, where It is due to arrive
on Jan. 31.
Punta Arenas Is the last stop before
rounding the Horn, and five days will
be passed here In coaling-from colliers
hired by the government The distance
of this leg Is 2,230 knots. On Feb. 5
the fleet will round the Horn, regarded
by all naval officers as the most dan
gerous point In the trip, and Feb. 28,""
it Is due at Callao, Peru, 2,850 knot
from Punta Aretas. Another stop of
ten days will be made at this point for
coal and shore leave.
ington, Tennessee and Rhode Island,
The last leg of the trip which Is fixed
as to dates calls for the departure from .
Callao on Feb. 28 for Magdalena bay,
Mexico, where the United States has
maintained a target practice station for
several years. Magdalena jwiy Is on
the peninsula of Lower California, 3,012
knots from Callao and 1,000 knots from
San Francisco. Here the fleet will re
main at least a month engaged In target
practice. Upon the completion of this
work It will sail for San Francisco,
where It Is expected to' arrive about
the middle of April or the 1st of May.
On the Journey around the Horn tho
battleshlps will pass the second torped
boat flotilla, which sailed for the Pa
cific on Dec. 2, and at San Francisco,
If not at Magdalena bay, It will be
Joined by the armored cruiser squad
rons under Rear Admiral Stockton and
Sebree, consisting of the cruisers Penn
sylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and
Colorado and ,the California, South
Dakota, Tennessee and Washington,
the later two ships now nearlng their,
destination after a trip around the
Horn. In addition tbe battleship Ne
braska, which has Just been commis
sioned, will Join the fleet as well as the
protected cruisers Charleston, Chicago,
Milwaukee, St Louis and the gunboat
Yorktown. '
Netberland ports are to be benefited by
the widening and deepening of the NorUi
Sea canal, so that large Tetseli will be
able to more at all sUf t&i tide.