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TOLEDO.
.OREGON
Speaker Cannon says congress will
jo slow. And be knows, If anybody
Ooea.
Generally It Is the man who does not
own but hires an automobile who leads
the fastest life.
Some men are weighed In the bal
anee and found wanting, while others
are wanting something all the time.
A steer from Canada has taken first
honors at the Chicago livestock show
We may have to annex that presump
tuous country yet
A book is always an acceptable
Christmas gift, but a single leaf from
a check book generally brings more
happiness In Its train.
Some of the men who this season
were mistaken for deer and shot, nrob
ably left families who are now trying
to keep the wolf from the door.
A California man named pitcher has
been awarded a divorce because his
wife drank to excess. Pitcher must
have grown tired of seeing her rush
the can.
Two Pittsburg men have been RPtl
fenced to the penitentiary for stealing
o cents. Liet people who are addicted
to the habit of robbing their babies'
oanus Deware.
A faint idea of the destitution pre
vailing In certain portions of India
may be gathered from the fact that
some of the nabobs have only thirty
-.uioraomies apiece.
A Brooklyn magistrate has decided
mat no woman has the right to compel
her husband to scrub the floor. Hnw
can there be equality of the sexes
wuue sucn decisions are handed down?
It Is alleged that the eagle on the
new $20 gold piece looks like a goose.
We have been so busy keeping our $20
gold pieces In circulation that we have
had no time to notice the contour of
the bird. .
It seems like the most natural thing
In the world to hear a Russian prais
ing our navy. Indeed, It Is one of the
distinctive characteristics of the Rus
sians that they have always kind
words for the United States.
Please emit a sigh for the woman
who sued a New Yorker to recover
$15,000 as dnmnges for two kisses he
had taken without permission. She
got nothing. The Jury at least might
have been sympathetic enough to ren
der a verdict that he return the kisses.
As usual after a financial crisis,
bankers urge the need of establishing
In this country something like the
Bank of England to manage the na
tional currency. The, present system
is antiquated and bad, and any sug
gestion for improvement deserves re
spectful examination.
Surgeon-General Rlxey has recom
mended in his annual report thnt an
order be issued forbidding the use of
cigarettes to all persons in the navy
under 21 yenrs old. If the order were
made and enforced, Dr. Rlxey says, the
sick records would be smaller and the
general efficiency of the service would
to improved.
' That was a wine word which Ambas
sador Rryeo uttered at the opening of
the International Young Men's Chris
tian Association convention In Wash
ington the other day, when ho said that
every upright life counts for good gov
ernment The source of reform In gov
ernment has always been In the pur
poses of en awakened voter.
In the very American state of Okla
homa is a little group of fifteen Indi
viduals of as pure American blood as
can be found In the country. They
own property to the extent of twelve
square miles, and are reported to be
In a flourishing condition. They are
fifteen buffaloes which were formerly
part of the herd In the New York Zoo
logical Park. Their new home Is like
that to which their ancestors were ac
customed, and It Is hoped they will
thrive better than they could In a city,
end thnt they will have thousands of
descendants.
"A man." says a newspaper story,
"made millions in his ninety years of
life by never doing the usunl thing."
These are some of the things he never
did : He never traveled ; he never
Joined anything; he never paid for a
ticket of admission ; he never ate In a
hotel or restaurant; his total exjwndl
ture for car fare was less than one dol
lar; for forty years ho had not voted;
he wouldn't smoke, not bex-ause It was
harmful, but because It cost him twelve
cents a -week. And it'um he died hi
hud amassed $1,500,000. Toor, lone
some old man ! The world was no bet
ter off for this man. He took all 11
would give, but he gave nothing In re
turn, either of money or sympathy oi
life. So, when he died, they told aboui
him In the newspapers, and now othen
will spend the money that he gave uj
everything to gather. There can't tx
many who care whether he Is gone oi
not Probably he had a few who lovec
him, because the most unlovable of m
are nearly always loved by somebody
But there Isn't any street full of friendi
who feel that something has gone oui
of their lives. He hjpsn't left an emptj
place, for he never cared about othei
people or other things, or to see and
know and understand and feel, and tc
put out his hand and get hold of th
hand of the throbbing, living world
around him. People say "That's a
queer story J" It's more than a queei
story. It is a real tragedy, because It
Is the story of a man who died befori
he bad begun to live.
By a happy coincidence, the unveil
ing of a memorial statue to Queen Vic
toria at Lelth, Scotland, fell on the
day of the publication of the first vol
umes of her letters. Lord Roscberj
made the address at the unveiling,
and although be did not allude to the
letters, his oration was precisely In
the spirit of them. They reveal
simple, earnest, womanly nature, with
no hint of the. Intrigue and Jealous;
and self-seeking which so commonly
hedge a throne, The queen's devotion
to the duties of every day, as her let
ters reveal It, her rigid Impartiality
when she was called upon to deal with
men some of whom she disliked as
much as she liked others, her gentle
firmness when her ministers tried to
Ignore her, and her Insistence that she
would not delegate her actual respon
sibility to any other hand these are
the traits of a good mother quite as
much as those of a great queen. Lord
Rosebery dwelt upon her womanliness
and Its unreckoned powers for good.
Speaking of the day when, as a mere
girl, she came to the throne, he said,
"Queen Victoria was then, as It were,
the child, the darling of the people,
and she lived to become their venerat
ed mother." "Mothering" her subjects
was a noble work for a lifetime. To
this Lord Rosebery had the courage
to add one other ground for national
obligation to her. "Not the least of
the services that she rendered to us,"
he boldly declared, "is the effect of her
training and example upon the present
King." It was a fitting time and place
for a grave tribute to the royal moth
er's royal son. As adviser, wise diplo
matist, peacemaker, he Is doing honor
to her training, and showing the world
how the mother be she high or lowly
wields a power beyond the queen's.
Nothing In the development of Amer
ican taste Is more hopeful than the
waning of the spread-eagle oratorv
and of turgid rhetoric In writing. The
passing of the pompous and artificial
in public discourse may be witnessed
throughout the English-speaking world,
ror the faults of tho old style, like
many Amerlenn fallings, were not pe
culiar to this country. In a recent
nddreRs at Edinburgh University Mr.
Hairour said that good public speak
Ing Is merely heightened conversation.
That Is, It Is natural, sincere, but pol
ished and correct; Just as In fiction
the conversation sounds like neonle
talking, but Is ensler and more firmly
constructed than the spoken sentences
of real life. In the old days the flow
ery manner, employed by a master,
could convey grent matter and achieve
poetic beauty. Webster could talk in
periods and not "sound like nlav-
actlng." But much which passed with
our forefathers for eloquence would
seem to us prolix and false. Tho mas
ters of the old style were splendid,
but their imitators were dull and hys
terical. The beginning of the chance
came when men like Lincoln and
Beecher and the cool-headed nnllH.
clans of modern England and America
turned their thoughts, not' to the
sounding-board nor to a select audi
ence, but to millions of people. Their
words had to stand the test of nrlnt.
and be read by a growing multitude,
which wished above all things to un-
flerRtnnd whnt was meant. The Speak
er of the British House of Commons,
In a recent address, gave a hint which
explains the change. He said that the
most effective 'orator at the nrosenr
time Is he who best understands and
has mastered his subject In former
times the purpose of the orator was
to stir up his hearers to lend them
to act. although they might not know
why they were to act. To-day the ob
ject Is to convince, and thorough
preparation and simple, direct dis
course are more effective for that than
ornate sentences and the abundant
gesticulation of the earlier method.
Alwaya at It.
Mrs. Pease My husband and I nev
er dispute before the children.' We
nlways send them out when a quarrel
seems Imminent Miss Sharp Ah, I've
often wondered why they're so much
in the street I
KENTUCKY'S TOBACCO AR
Vight Riders Inflict an Aggregate
Loss of Nearly $1,000,000.
The last exploit of the Kentucky
tobacco night riders In seizing the city
of Hopklnsvllle. destroying $200,000
worth of property and seriously wound
ing two men, has aroused an intensity
of Interest throughout the 8tate aud far
beyond its borders. These
the most conspicuous feature of the
war that Is being waged by the tobacco
growers of Kentucky against the Ameri
can Tobacco Company. By reducing
the competition in the buying of tobac
co to practically nothing the company
forced down the price of leaf tobacco
until the growers say they can not real
ize enough to pay for raising It The
tobacco crop is a mainstay In many
parts of Kentucky, and thousands de
pend on It for their daily bread. The
growers determined to force the price
up.
The plan proposed In the beginning,
and which la still being followed, was
to form a combination of the growers
to oppose the combination of the manu
facturers and by withholding the to
bacco make the tobacco trust come to
terms. ' Many associations of growers
have been formed In the different to
bacco raising regions of Kentucky. But
some of the growers did not come into
the association ranks and others grew
weary of waiting and sold their crops.
The more violent men in the associa
tions have resorted to the measures
thnt gave rise to the night rider, and
by destroying the property of the to
bacco company and the growers who
are not allied with them have sought
to carry through their plan by force
and terror.
The Hopklnsvllle rail was the second
time In twelve months that the night
riders seized and terrorized a city. On
December 1, 1900, they entered Prince- j
SKETCH OF COURT
ton, Ky., a town of several thousand
inhabitants, about thirty miles north of
Hopkinsville, took possession of the po
lice nnd fire departments, the water
works, the telephone and telegraph of
fices and with the town shut off from
the rest of the world dynamited and set
fire to the Steger & Dollar and the
John C. Orr tobacco factories, which
were allied with the trust
The first appearance of the night
riders was in November, 1900, when
they destroyed some tobacco barns and
small factories In Todd County, with a
loss of about $10,000, The first raid
came on the night of November 11,
1900, when masked bands entered the
towns of Eddyvllle and Kuttawa, situ
ated close together in Lyon and Cald
well Counties, and destroyed the plants
of the American Snuff Company and
M. C. Rice, with $20,000 loss.
Besides those there have been mnny
smoller raids and visits to Individual
growers. Tolincco barns hnve been
burned, growers who refused to pool
their tobacco have been tnken from
their homes ond whipped, houses have
been fired into aud the occupants
wounded. The aggregate losses by
these raids amount to nearly $1,000,000.
A Synthetic Health Creed.
The "bnrk-to-nature" movement, of
which the most prominent leaders are Dr.
J. H. Kellogg of Battle Creek, Dr. Dewey,
Profs. Fisher nnd Chittenden of Yale and
Prof. Metchnikoff of Russia, has now
found a synthetizing exposition at the
hands of Dr. Daniel S. Sager in a new
book published by Stokes, entitled, 'The
Art of Living in Good Health." This
new apostle of the simpler life, with the
added authority of a successful "M. D.,"
commends much of the work of those
pioneers nnd founds his system on a
creed, the vest-pocket edition of which Is :
wreathe deen: chew long: drink enough:
enl little." Bathing, exercise, early sleep
and cheerfulness are other articles.
"n'U - nARPfy K tHav Francis GAF7AH pfflwnL rftNl(foEii.irY orno
CAKE FOB EX-PRESIDENTS, IS
PLEA OF GROVES CLEVELAND
Urges Duty to Make Provision for
Men "Who Have Filled Highest -Post
in Nation.
Referring to the poverty of Jefferson
when he left the presidency as a blow
to national pride, Grover Cleveland,
writing In the Youth's Companion un-
acr to title "Our People and Their ex
Presidents," argues that definite and
generous provision should be made for
the maintenance of chief magistrates
at the expiration of their terms. He
deals with the subject at length and
explains that he feels he can do so
without his sincerity being questioned,
since he Is beyond the need of aid
from the public treasury.
"The condition Is by no means met,"
Mr. Cleveland writes, "by tho meager
and spasmodic relief occasionally fur
nished under the guise of a military
pension, or some other pretext, nor
would It be best met by making com
pensation dependent upon the discharge
of senatorial or other ofllcial duty. Oar
people ought to make definite and dec
orous provisions for all cases alike,
based on motives of Justice and fair
ness, and adequate to the situation."
Mr. Cleveland describes the limita
tions that his former high office place
on a retired President in his choice of
occupations and means of livelihood,
and how popular conception of him as a
repository of national dignity pnfnrrtH,
a scale of living that may not be within
his private means.
'There is a sort of vague, but none
the less imperative, feeling abroad in
the land that one who has occupied the
great office of President holds In trust
for his fellow citizens a certain dig
nity which. In bis conduct and manner
of life, he Is bound to protect against
ROOM AND CHIEF FIGURES IN
loss or deterioration. Obedience to this
obligation prescribes, for him only such
work as in popular Judgment Is not
undignified. This suggests without ar
gument a reciprocal connection be
tween the curtailment of opportunities
and a reasonable obligation of indem
nification." One division of the Cleveland article
Is devoted to the "Occupations of an
ex-President," nnd in It the former
President reveals the multiplicity of
things which persons endeavor to bring
to the attention oivthe retired states
man and the class of affairs he Is asked
to engage in,
NEWS OF MINOR NOTE.
The Central Hotel at Colon, Panama,
was burned. Loss $3,000.
Fire in the York" building in Boston,
caused a loss of $100,000 to several manu
facturing firms and to the owner of the
building.
Judge Strimple, in Cleveland appointed
Owen L. Wilcox as receiver for the Cleve
land and Sharon Electric Railway Com
pany in order to defeat the alleged plot
of majority stockholders to freeze out the
minority.
Dr. Johu M. Flint, formerly of Chi
cago, now of the University of California,
was chosen to succeed Dr. William Car
ninll as head of the department of sur
gery in the Yale Medical school at New
Haven, Conn.
Sir John Roger, Governor of the Eng
lish Gold Coast colony, told a Philadel
phia audience the negro was the greatest
problem confronting civilization and was
becoming as acute in the English colo
nies as in the United States.
According to advices received from
Washington, the government officials are
not satisfied with the new double engle
being coined at the Philadelphia mint,
and hove ordered coinage stopped tempo
rarily to permit a chnnge in the process.
The design of the coin will not be changed.
ESTATES OF OLD SOLDIERS.
An Ohio County to Fight United
, States for $500,000.
Frank W. Howell, a Dayton lawyer.
Is now entitled to the world's, record
as administrator of estates. He has
been appointed by Judge C. W. Dale as
administrator of 8432 estates, and has
been compelled to give bond In the
sum of $3,200,000.
The appointment as administrator
grew out of tbe following situation:
The central branch of the National
Military Homes Is located at Dayton,
and was established by the United
States government, by a special act,
March 3. 18G5. The Jurisdiction of this
large tract of ground, more than a
mile square in extent, was ceded to the
United States government by the State
of Ohio April 13, 1SC7.
Upon this land the Central Branch
of the National Military Homes was
built for disabled soldiers and sailors
who have fought the battles for liberty
and union. As far as the United States
government Is concerned nothing has
been neglected, and the central branch
Is a veritable paradise.
If all the veterans who entered tin
central branch had lived there would
have been no contention and nothing
to narrate. When death comes the
veteran receives a decent and honor
able burial, and his belongings are col
lected, and if not claimed by relatives,
are sold, and the money, together with
all of the pension money to which he
Is etitHinr 3 pinned In the "jvwttvi
mous fund," which Is in the keeDlnz of
the treasurer of the Central Branch,
National Military nomea Sometimes
the deceased veteran leaves consider
able property which he has gained by
investment or speculation with his
pension money. Four teat cases are
now being fought out to determine
whether these estates shall revert to
THE THAW TRIAL.
the Montgomery County treasurer oi
the United States government It Is
contended by Mr. Howell, the admin
istrator, that the money left by the old
veterans who die intestate belongs to
Montgomery County and should go to
ward the school fund. United States
District Attorney McPherson of Cin
cinnntl is looking after the Interests of
the government. He claims that the
money belongs to the United States.
The amount Involved In the eases rep
resented by Mr. Howell, the adminis
trator, is something over $500,000.
An Apoatle of Happlneaa.
Miss Laurence Alnm.Tnmo ,i i
of the well-known arti .
" nuuivr VI
several successful novels, has come from
her English home to lecture in America
on "Happiness." When asked by a New
York reporter to tell what she meant by
happiness, Miss Alnm-Tadcma Raid it '
would take an hour and twenty minutes
to tell that, and it had taken her five
months to write down what had required
years to learn. As to how it could be at
tained, she is quoted as saying: "By man
aging one's self; by working hard and
ui-veiupmg ones sen to the limit. It
never comes except by being sought. It
is not a matter of condition or of wealth.
It does not denend
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plness lies in the curtailment of desir.
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uu wuuout uiings.
American Wlna Nobel Prlne.
The University of rhl i, .i...
- n uvuia mac
thf. head of its department of nhvsira
1 1 oi. Aiuert a. .uicnemon, u to receive
the year's Nobel prize for the lest work
in his line. Prof. Michelnnn la n .t
London, where the Copley mednl has been
awarded to him by the London Royal So
ciety. Dr. Michelson is the discoverer of
s method of measuring the velocity of
light. Though born In Gcrmnny, he has
lived here since childhood and is a grad
uate of the Naval Academy
Ho is now 50.
Chinese athletes eat dusk brains.