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
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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