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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1908)
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER RE COLLINS, Editor r N HAYDEN, Manaser TOLEDO OREGON Our English cousins pronounce nr. John "Slnjin." Is St. James "Sin Jlnis?" A New York girl who ran away from borne says she ran away to learn sew ing. Plain of wild oats? The man who has a dimpled dearest baby to dance upon his knee seldom worries much about posterity. A Pittsburg paper say's that Count Boni is game to the core. Why not Ray to the yellow? Bad eggs do not have cores. If Russia and Turkey should go to war it would be difficult for ni06t of us to decide which to sympathize with least The mistletoe, according to botan ists, poisons every tree it touches. Then there must be some danger In a mis tletoe kiss. An Ontario man named Freeze has gone crazy. Why not put him In the same cell with Harry Thaw and see what happens. A Cleveland preacher advises people Got to get married until they feel that they will die If they don't But nearly everybody does feel that way. "We pay dearly for our mistakes," observes a contemporary. True, broth er, and none so deurly as those who have the money and marry foreign titles. Ida Tarbell's declaration that Amer ican women were responsible for the recent panic is bound to Jar Tom Law aon, who thought he would get all the credit Science Is resourceful if backed by money. Perhaps that Is why the Thaw experts were able to discover a form of insanity Just suited to the defend ant's case. For every warship that Germany builds England will build two. Britan nia has been ruling the waves for some years now, and intends to keep the Job until the cows come home. No members of the Rockefeller fam ily were at the Vanderbilt wedding. They must in some way have let It be known that they wouldn't buy out any Jewelry store for the purpose or.' pro Tiding presents even If they were sked. The Baltimore Sun figures that It will require four thousand years to convert all Americans to the new spell ing reform. It will take four million yean to get all Americans to follow correctly any established form of spelling. A Chicago waiter has become rich enough by saving his "tips" to retire from business. Representatives of predatory wealth will refuse, however, to regard him with admiration because be considers a mere hundred thousand dollars as a competency. Scions of nobility make two appeals to the American woman. 1 As a rule, they understand better than the Amer ican man the outward accomplishments of social life, for social life In Europe, especially among the upier classes. Is more like au exclusive profession. But the stronger force is the social prestige which attends family and title. The tremendous difference between high and low classes, attached to which Is an unquestioning deference from low to high, as flattering as it is strange to American experience, Is fascinating to a woman who has once been across to see it Marriage and motherhood tend to end the service of women teachers. That is the rule. It may not always do so. It may not do so by law. It however, does bo, in the main, as a matter of fact Husbands need their wives more than their wives need school employ' ment The greater need governs. Chil dren need their mothers more than the school needs the mothers of children. Marriage and fatherhood do not tend to end the employment of men as teachers. Only by keeping the wages of maiden teachers lower than that of men teachers are men kept fron seek' ing the places, and are maids, young maid or old maids, able to retain them. - What holds in department stores or lu all government offices will Vrcntlnue to hold In teaching. No scientific question has been more discussed with fruitless result than the object and the significance of the migration of birds, toward the tropics in the autumn and toward the poles in the spring. It would be easy to sup pose that the autumnal migration Is in search of food if It" were not for the (act that In the spring the birds leavt abundant supplies of food in the warm regions, and arrive In the colder re gions even before vegetation is far ad vanced. Another suggestion, that the migration north Is for breeding pur poses, is disproved by the fact that th migratory habit Is found in birds that do not breed until the second or third year. Prof. E. A. Schafer, in au ad dress before the Scottish Natural His tory Society, has suggested and argued plausibly that the explanation Is to be found In the search for light The polar regions are dark in winter, and ' the days are short In the temperate zones. On the other hand, the days are longer lu high latitudes than in the tropics between the spring and the autumnal equinoxes. Birds are vora cious feeders, nnd occupy most of the daylight In seeking food ; nnd they are greatly dependent upon their eyes Id the search. Some confirmation of tbis theory Is found in the fact that birds do not start on their. Journeys south ward or northward impelled by a change in the temperature, for they take their flight southward In warm autumns and northward In cold springs, on practically the same dayi of the month as in other years. The theory is at least Interesting, and worthy of further study. It Is an Interesting fact that both lr the Roman Catholic and in the Prot estant church the question of music has lately been the subject of special. Interest and study. One of the first reforms which the present Pope un dertook was the simplification of the musical part of the service of the church a reform which he sought to accomplish by ordering a return to the old Gregorian chant A Baptist minister, who by Invitation addressed a meeting of Methodist ministers In New York, has declared that too often I In evangelical churches the music, bud- ' posed to be sacred, is of the "ragtime" . Vanlitir n .1 U 1 . . . I '"""jp uu me wunia nei 10 we music are doggerel. "The music has deteri orated and retrograded," he said, "and has lost its inspiring Influence In many cnurches. Many of the old so-called hymns are a disgrace to the church and to music." It is impossible not to agree with this criticism, harsh as It is ; but It Is one thing to recognize a defect and another to suggest the remedy.1 The securing of good music by the hlr-1 ing or a well-trained choir involves a considerable expense, and in the minda of many spiritually-minded persons In troduces an element of commercialism I flT)l1 rWPflinAfAI-lnACa nrltlnk In t . . 1 I ,t u. fn.uu'.iuuutDa 1TU1V.U JB 1 111 111 H 111 to true worship. On the other hand. the alternative, which is congregational singing, although it is indisputably more spontaneous and simple, Is never theless objectionable to many church goers because it is usually less artistic than the performance of a competent choir. Moreover. It leaves untouched what mny Justly be regarded as the most important criticism which the New York clergyman made, namely, the character of many of the hymns in common use. It is interesting to note, however, that the two religious organizations which have had the most remarkable growth In late years the Salvation Army and the Christian Sci entists are both advocates of congre gational singing. Tosslbly a solution might be found In a competent and drastic revision of the hymnals and a return to that hnppy, old-time New England custom of an unpaid volunteer choir, to act as leaders of the congre gational singing. Marrelous. When a fellow tells a girl he is not worthy of her she should take him at his word and not look for proof. "It may be better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all," says a married friend of mine, "but both have their advantages." Give a man back talk and he is ap to take affront. It Isn't every chauffeur who could write bis autobiography. A good many things have been done in the name of charity and a good many people, too. Many a man gets the reputation ot being well informed because people happen to ask him the things he hnp pens to know. There are lots of men who nevoi swear and we wouldn't believe them on their oath If they did. The dollar mark Is too often synony. mous with the mark of esteem. Every man has an aim in life, but lots of them are mighty poor marks men. New York Times. A Hopeless Peaalmlat. "Why don't you make some arrange ments to donate your money for phil anthropic purposes?" "What's the use?" Inquired Mr. Dustln Stax. "It's getting too hard these days to distinguish between a genuine philanthropist and a man who Is ambitious to show off." Washing, ton Star. A, Dad Impression. "And how does her mother regard you?" "She despises me." "Eh! What's the trouble?" "I was her partner at bridge lasf night" -Cleveland Plain Dealer. PF.AT.ERS IS LOGS. Timber of Certain Kinds Supplied for Special tlaea. In a downtown building there ap pears on llie Juur of one office, under the name of the concern occupying It, this word: "Logs." The business of the concern is to supply logs of certain native woods for the use of veneer manufacturers, and logs of certain woods for export, says the New York Sun. White oak, yellow poplar and nsh are the woods that this concern collects for .veneering purposes, and It buys these wherever it can find them. For some years the principal sources of supply for white oak have been Vir ginia and West Virginia. ; Two or three times a year a mem ber of the firm, who is also Its buyer, traverses these-States in search of suit able white oak trees, and be may find yellow poplar and ash in the same regions. The white oak has been pret ty well cut away along the lines of the railroads, and so now he goes back in the country and spends weeks there looking for suitable trees. A log is the clear trunk of the tree extending from the ground to where the tree branches. To be available for veneers a white oak log must be at least ten feet in length and not less than thirty Inches in diameter, for the oak must be quartered before It is saw ed or sliced into veneers. They get oak logs that will cut ten, twelve, four teen and sixteen feet, and occasionally they find a white oak tree with a trunk that will measure thirty-six feet, cut ting three twelve-foot logs, the biggest of these having a diameter of perhaps forty-five Inches. The log buyer may get back as fnr as twenty-five miles from the railroad, which is about as far as It pays to haul a log, and, of course, the farther back he gets the less he pays for the trees, for there is to be added to the price paid for them the cost of hauling them to a shipping point He will buy one tree or three or four or any num ber. Wihen the trees have been cut down the buyer has to get them to the rail road, and for this work he hires teams In the neighborhood ; and It takes good teams and hard work to get the logs out over the rough mountain roads. One big white oak tree that was bought at a point twenty miles back, and that cut Into two lengths, It took two six horse teams, each hauling a single cut, two days to haul out It may be that the buyer will bit a bunch of trees, enough for a carload of logs, In one place; but If he doesn't find so many In one spot he gets the one tree or three or four or half a dozen that he may find here or there to the railroad and brands them, and then goes on collecting until he has got together enough to make a car load or more. This concern brings veneer logs to New York, and It ships also to Bos ton. The black walnut logs collected are mostly shipped to Germany and Spain, those sent to Spain being shipped In the bark, while those sent to Germany are hewed eight-sided here before ship ment. The black walnut logs are brought mainly from the South. The biggest black walnut tree that this con cern ever bought was found In New Jersey, and when cut measured 7 feet In diameter at the butt. LAWSUITS OVER TRIFLES. Famous Cases tbat Coat Mnoh More than They Were Worth. Many men, level-headed enough about other things, seem to lose their wits entirely when they get tangled up In a lawsuit In a case recently concluded In the German courts a Berlin busi ness man paid out over $900 to recover the value of a five-cent postage stamp, and now everybody Is laughing at him because he didn't even get the stamp LittlePeopix Gingham will play an Important role this season In the wardrole of the small daughters, but It will be used only In the finest and sheerest quali ties. For the child who looks best in a rather severe type of garb nothing is prettier than the simply made one piece frock of tailored linen or pique. The little maiden's tailored linen cos tume Is much on the lines of that worn by her small brother, who is still con demned to the dc:,)ised skirts. Colored linens, plain madras and various at tractive cotton fabrics of plain surface are used for the more elaborate Jumper frocks. Tarty frocks of lingerie or China silk are quite as elaborate as any designed for the little maid's elder sister, so far as handwork goes. The child's runabout lingerie hat is a substantial affair of heavy linen, with a Belf-embroldered edge. back. It seems as if this claimant bad Justice on his side, too ; he had written a polite letter asking for an address and Inclosing postage for reply. Fall ing to get an answer, he sued for the stamp. The famous Missouri watermelon case was Just as trifling and even more disastrous. The seed was planted on one farm, but the vine crept through a crack in the rail fence and the melon grew on the other side. Both farmers claimed it ,and instead of seeing the Joke they went to low. To add to the puzzle of ownership an additional cotn pllcatlou, the fence was on a county line and a question of the Jurisdiction, of course, was involved. The farmers bankrupted themselves without decid ing the question of ownership. The melon, worth about 10 cents in the first place, had disappeared long before. How the costs run up in these trivial actions was shown in a Canadian case. By one of those queer marriage settle ments sometimes made in England a young man agreed to pay his wife's mother $100 on the first day of every year. He settled In Canada, and when he came to make the remittance he de ducted the amount of the money order and sent her only $99.84. The mother-in-law insisted that she must have the other 10 cents, and after a month or two she bad her attorneys bring suit against him in the Ontario courts. She made him pay, too, and stuck Mm for the costs of the action, though she was obliged to fee her own lawyers. The total expenses of this 10-cent lawsuit were said to be exactly $612, most of wfolch fell upon the economical son-in-law. The most expensive lawsuit in the world is said to have been that over the will of Antonio Traversa, a mer chant who lived at Milan. He left a fortune of $3,000,000, and there were a large number of hel with conflict ing interests. The case in the dif ferent courts of Italy Vi years, and the 105 lawyers engaged in It ran up costs aggregating more than $2,000,000. The estate lost In value, too, during the contest, so that the winning heirs found themselves with a small sum to their share when the final decision was ren dered. One of the most persistent complain ants on record was an aged Belgian lawyer who once tried to ride in an Antwerp street car or "tramway" on a ticket which he maintained was good, but which the company refused to honor. He brought suit against them next day and the court decided against him. He paid 4 Is costs, only a trifle, and the next time he got on the car he offered the same ticket It was refused, and again he haled the company into court. As he was his own lawyer and the ticket was his witness, it was not an expensive course of litigation for him, but It cost the company something. As often as he would be thrown out of court he would offer the ticket again and establish grounds for a new case. At last the tramway company saw a great light They accepted the ticket one day and let the lawyer ride. And Still He I.Ives. "In what way are the President's ears peculiar?" asked the conundrum crank. "Go on, I'll bite," groaned the victim. "Why, a great deal of what comes to them comes through the Loeb." Kan sas City Times. Practical Optimism. An optimist Is a cheery creature, but let not your optimism put Its main strength on sentiments hung above your ofllee desk, such as "Smile" "Cheer Up" act them. Some women socm to absorb gossip. No one is ever able to tell them any. thing "on" someone ; they know It first If a man Is henpecked It Is because be deserves to be. A, HOME-MADE SLDEBOARlX A sideboard is an expensive piece ot furniture to buy, but there Is no rea on why a substitute should not be made which will answer the purpose very well and yet cost less than two Sollars -with the extra advantage that It can be unscrewed and packed up In a small compass when the owner has to change his place of abode. The main body of such a construc tion consists of three' boxes firmly screwed together with a strong board fixed on the top. This last should be bevelled at the edge, and should pro I Ject at least three Inches at the sides I and front, leaving the back quite level, i The lids of the boxes can be utilized ; as shelves, as seen in the sketch of the sideboard when completed. A pottery rack with an ornamental rail can be bought ready-made for a trifle; this is nailed on the wall about twenty inches above the sideboard. It Is provided underneath with a small brass rod having a screw socket, and a similar rod is placed beneath the slab of the sideboard. Curtains of some THE FINISHED SIDEBOARD. rich color are hung so as to conceal the contents of the shelves, and also ta give a good background for the silver trays, eta, which generally stand her ready for use. The wood can be stain ed oak or walnut. Of course If the sideboard is made out of well-planeu white wood you will get a better look ing article at a slight additional ex pense. Where only a- few tools are at your disposal and no room exist suitable for a workshop, the boxes will certainly be found easier to manipu late and will save a good deal of timer and trouble, while producing a wonder fully good effect when finished. LONDON'S CREAM. Britishers Are Anxlona to Have m City Undented by Smoke. A movement Is on foot to make Lon don, the dirty and the fog-ridden, a smokeless city, and It Is believed that when London shows the way other great towns throughout the world will follow suit The idea is to make It un necessary to haul a ton of coal Into the town. In other words, all the coal turned out at the mines is to be trans formed Into gas and supplied through pipes to all those who desire It for power, heating or lighting. You can see that it is a gigantic scheme one in which failure Is more likely than success, and yet conserva tive London believes that it Is feasible. Of course, In order that the plan may carry through it is necessary to make the gas-fuel cheaper than coal. Otherwise, there is no way in which those who desire power, heat or light can be made to dispense with the fuel which they now employ. This the pro jectors of the scheme think can be done. It is said that they can make the gas, pipe it to the city Just as oil Is now transported for many miles In this country, and sell It at the rate of 40 cents a thousand feet By so doing they expect to undersell the coal man, and thus make the smoke a thing of the past In this country, for some years, efforts have been made continually to reduce the volume of smoke in the cities. Various laws have been passed, and any, number of contrivances have been put on the market for the pur pose of preventing the issuing forth of great volumes of smoke. But the smoke still goes out of the chimneys Just the same to twist the words of the song a bit. In this country there has been considerable discussion of the project started In London ma'lnly, of course, among those who seek the city beautiful, but so far as Is known no attempt has been made here to do what the Londoners propose. 'On the Road. The manager rushed into the proper ty rooin'excltedly. "Where is the apple to put on Tell's son's head?" he cried. 'The audience. Is waiting; There's not a minute to i ,, The property man put down his newspaper and took his pipe from his mouth. "Tell ate It" he said, calmly. "You didn't pay him yesterday, and he stewed It for his supper." A wise man has been known to do a foolish thing; Try to reason sens Into a fooL