Lincoln County leader., July 03, 1908, Image 2

Li'dGGLH GOUHTY LEADER
RCCOU.MS. rotor
r N HAYDEN, Munar
TOLEDO OREGON
A little gnWlen seed, "well tenoeo,
will produce a lot of backache.
One newspaper has bad the audacity
to wonder whether Count Bonl was bo
much to blame, after all.
There are few people but have felt,
at one time or another, thnt they could
alt down and write a spring poem.
Prince I Idle de Sagan says be never
(wants to see America again. But
America suM It about Ilelle first
Married life may be quite a come
down to the Philadelphia couple mar
ried on top of the Washington monu
ment We believe the Chicago News when
ft says "there Is always some man
around who Is willing to second any
kind of a motion."
Aoording to one statement Prince
de Susan Is worth $3,000,000, and an
other has hiin $0,000,000 In debt. Fer
4uis they ore lxth correct.
A Boston man 'is offering $."i0 re
iri for n trentwent tliat will cure a
parrot of the habit of repeating pro
faulty. Why not try the ax?
The garden seed sent out by members
of Congress will produce plenty of back
ache. If nothing else. Which Is another
lift for tbe druggists of the country.
That Cleveland Judge wlo held It as
sault and battery to steal a kiss ap
pears to have been unnecessarily alarm
ed by the fact that this Is leap year.
It may Interest the man who reaches
Into an empty pocket now and then
to know that the prpsent per capita
circulation In the United States Is
a5.35.
"The un.ioUHcious habit of smiling
promotes wrinkles." says the Sioux
City Journal. Rut so does the habit of
frowning. Must we keep a straight
face all the time?
The law decides that a "family hotel"
Is not altogether a hotel. Hut no one
would he so cruel as to trace the -on-nectlon
ttebwecu such "select" hostelries
and a mere iswding house.
A New Jersey woman 'has secured a
divorce because her husband was in
the habit of cutting another lady's
corns. He slmuld have taken tbe pre
caution to secure a diploma as a chirop
odist. A Ohlcago scientist claims to have
discovered that "the disturbance of the
equilibrium of Imponderable ether Is
not the agent of heat." It might be
well to remember this when the ther
mometer gets busy this minmier.
A New York man has been sentenced
to serve a term In prison for perpe
trating election frauds. The Jury rhat
found him guilty recommended clemen
cy, and 200 politicians wrote letters
asking 'the Judge to be lenient with
lilm, which facts merely emphasize the
courage exhibited by the public servant
vlw) 1tapened to le on the bench.
Scholars have enjoyed making lists
of the best hundred looks, the lest
hundred pictures, the greatest hundred
battles. Senator La Toilette of Wis
consin recently nuide a list of the men
who, lu bis opinion, control the finances
of the country. Like other lists. It
omits many distinguished Americans
who think they are entitled to lie In
cluded. There are several million of
lis who believe we have something to
ay alxnit tlio wealth of the nation.
A cartoon In the Chicago News Illus
trates the cause of much of the failure
of public business. Mr. Busynian is
represented In one picture before a line
of candidates for the jwsition of otlice
boy j he Is considering their qualities
tlons carefully. In another picture he
Is bHrled In work at his desk. Behind
him a disreputable person Is saying, "I
want to be alderuinn." "All right,
ays Mr. Busynian, over his shoulder.
"I'll vote for you If you'll get out and
let me alone. I'm busy.
It la often said that the palmy days
of travel by river are over, but this re
mark applies only temjiorarlly to cer-
tain streams that do not at this time
afford the necessary conditions. Tak
Ing the world as a whole, there Is more
Journeying by water than ever before.
The figures of last year's passenger
traffic on the lakes show that 7,500,000
passengers were carried out of Detroit
by boat, 1,000,000 from Chicago, 630,
000 from Milwaukee, over 400,000 each
from Port Huron, Grand Haven and
Marquette, with smaller ports getting
a proportionate share. One feature to
be noted is the exceptional safety of .
lake travel. Not a life was lost among
the 7,500,000 persons who left Detroit i
by boat, and passenger casualties were
few anywhere on tlie lakes. The ves
sels have Increased In size until they
are almost in the class of ocean liners.
They' offer roomy berths, cabins and
promenade decks, with good fare, on
various plans, and the public comfort
and enjoyment are carefully studied.
Between some of the chief lake cities
excursion steamers of the largest size
run dally during the beared period as n
means of refreshment to the crowded
population, keeping In motion on the
water as long a time as possible.
Many farmers are crossing the Hue
of the United States Into the western
provinces of Canada. Tlie movement
has attracted widespread attention. It
has been encouraged by systematic
work of publicity and promotion. The
boomer hns used all sorts of advertis
ing devlf to emphasize the advan
tages of the new country. Tlwit his. ser
vices have been effective Is undoubted.
If Canadian figures are reliable sev
eral hundred thousand people have
moved from the United States to these
provinces since 1!)00. There is a steady
movement of imputation in the other
direction also. New England is fill
ing up with Immigrants from Canada.
They are crowding the mill towns and
are also occupying tlie farms once own
ed by tlie descendants of Pilgrim and
Puritan. The old towns show the loss
of names once common and the pres
ence of families of entirely different
origin. These Canadian-French settlers
are "changing rural conditions in New
England completely. The fact of their
steady Increase Is as apparent and. in
a way, as striking as. Is that of the
other migration In the Northwest.
There Is- another movement from Can
ada of men of business instincts rather
than of agricultural or industrial ten
dencies, i low great the volume or
this steady flow is nncertJiln. But it is
u matter of connicon observation that
many Canadian clerks are at work in
the United States. Only a casual glance.
Is needed to show that a good propor
tion of these follow up their migration
to the South by seeking American citi
zenship. Tbe outflow of population is
more spectacular than. tbe Inflow. It
causes alarm In the minds of many be
cause It Is the same sort of movement
thnt oecompllHhed so much In tlie de
velopment of the United States. The
"west" in changing localities' was
largely built up by settlers from the
"east," this latter term also being a
movable one. Because of the knowledge
of this nplendld citizenship which is
Itelng lost Americans regret the rest
less search for new lands is carrying
the pioneers across the border Into
Canada. It Is the regret manifested
by Gov. Morris wlien speaking of the
eastern opposition to the Ixuiisiumi
purchase. He pictured tbe exnlierunt
population of the Eastern States flow
ing In a steady streaan Into the west
ern wilderness. He declared thnt If
that country were neglected or permit
ted to pass Into the hands of a for
eign power the fairest hope of poster
ity would be destroyed. The loss of
good American stock Is to be regretted.
But tlie movement means progress. It
means harmonious relationships be
tween tlie Northwestern States and the
Canadian Northwest. It means devel
opment of a new region by splendid
citizens. It means betterment of condi
tions by those whose fathers and grand
fathers sought the same thing by west
ern migration. In this Instance the
United States loses as the older States
lost before.
Left Their Mark.
There was an air of cynicism atiout
.Miss Mnrthn Head and a brisk and
biting quality In her voice which was
not conducive to a display of sentiment
from her friends and relatives.
Occasionally outsiders attempted
some flight of fancy, and were speedily
blighted by Miss Martha. This was the
case when a summer, resident went to
return Miss Head's call, and was vis
Ibly stirred at the sight of the beauti
ful old house, of which she had been
told so many stories.
"To think how many, many little feet
have gone up and down over these
stairs!" said the visitor, In a tone of
awe, looking with reverent eyes at the
old staircase.
Miss Martha gave her a searching
glance, and then bent her gaze on the
stairs.
"Yes," she said, crisply, "anybody
can see that With three grandnephews
and two grandnleccs here all summer
long, racing and tearing up and down,
and hardly ever remembering to wipe
their shoes on the door mat, those
stairs are never fit to be seen."
None Wone,
A Scotch minister had been away oi
a vacation, says a writer In Punch, aiu'
on his return asked the sexton how al
had gone In his absence.
"Very well, Indeed," was the cheer
lng response. "They do say that moo
meenlsters leave some one worse tha
themselves to fill the pulpit whej thr
go away but you never do that, sir."
lnflaenia Epidemic. '
Influenza Is an acute infectious dis
ease of peculiar character. Its origin
al home Is believed to have, been In
that mysterious region called Eastern
Central Asia, where also the plague is
thought to have its natural habitat
From this region it was wont to Issue
t Irregular Intervals of from four to
five years to seventy or eighty, and In
vade first Russia and then western Eu
rope.
It was for long not known how It
spread from one country to another,
affecting large districts almost at once.
Its appearance In a city, for example,
was hardly noted before the entire city
was in Its grip. It was thought due
to some mysterious atmospheric "influ
ence," whence its name from tbe Itnl-
lan form of the word. The French
call It la grippe, whence our "grippe,"
because of the way it seems to seize
upon Its victims. ,
The last great irruption of the dis
ease was In 1880-00, when It spread
ver the entire civilized world with
such extreme rapidity that the belief
In an atmospheric influence was for a
time revived. A study of the epidemic,
however, proved that It followed the
wanderings of human beings along the
lines of travel; at first in a definite
direction, because the travel in Siberia
and eastern Russia was along narrow
caravan routes and In a westward di
rection. Once It reached populous
western Europe, with Its radiating
lines of railways, It burst forth In ev
ery direction like the explosion of a
rocket which has Journeyed for n time
a a straight line up through the air.
This explosion and almost simulta
neous diffusion throughout Europe was
simply the result of human Inter
course. As soon as rhe earlier carriers
of the infection reached a populous
city they scattered in various direc
tions to their homes or to lodging
houses and "hotels; and each one who
was suffering at the time from the dis
ease became a focus of Infection, and
from each of these centers the disease
spread, and the grippe seized upon
great numbers in all parts of the city
at the same time, as soon as the Incu
bative period of from one to four days
had passed. Europe for a time had the
epidemic to Itself, but In ten days or
two weeks, Just long enough for the
steamers to bring their infected human
caijgo, It apieared here on the Eastern
coast, and as fast as steam could car
ry It spread over the entire country.
The epidemics lu former, times last
ed from one to three or four years and
then ceased, but since 1890 Influenza
has been epidemic In Europe and Amer
ica every winter.
WHERE DOCTORS FARE ILL.
fee In England, Germany and Aus
tria Often Rldlcnlonaly Small.
Those who "pay the doctor's bills'
In England, like those In America, gen
erally have their own Ideas about the
periodical outcry raised In certain sec
tlons of the medical, profession as to
the Increasing difficulty physicians
have to "make both ends meet," but If
the figures recently printed In the Brit
ish Medical Journal regarding tlie
struggle of the average physician in
this country to earn anything like a
decent livelihood reflect nctual condi
tions, more leniency should certainly be
shown nt least In England toward
apparently lilcrnl charges for minister
ing to our physical woes, says the Lon
don correspondent of the New York
Times.
It Is pointed out that while there
may be a few specialists In London who
earn incomes ranging between $75,000
and 1100,000 a year, the average In
come of the medlenl man In England
works out at something like $1,100 or
$1,250; and, reasoning from this aver
age, the letter of a correspondent, who
bitterly bewails his fate nt an Income
of $1,100 a year, out of which he must
defray the expenses of his surgery and
practice before he can claim anything
for his home, Is taken as a sample of
the experience of the ordinary practi
tioner In tlie Industrial centers of En
gland.
The correspondent In question had
secured for himself a fair connection,
In point of numbers, after a residence
of ten years In his district. Of his
enmlngs 31.6 per cent was paid to him
at his surgery ; 87 per cent was paid In
weekly Installments to a collector ; two-
thlrds of the accounts were paid at a
rate of 6 cents a week and one-third at
less than 6 cents a week; 12 per cent
had to be regarded as bad debts, and
the balance, 20 per cent, had to be got,
If it was got at all, through the County
Court.
Tbe reason of this Inadequate return
for all the skill, patience and labor of
the medical practitioner In England U
not ascribed alone to the overcrowding
of the profession. By many the prac
titioners themselves are blamed for
consenting to accept fees which are not j
only unworthy of the work done but
too low when regarded In the light of
the means of those who have the work
done. This state of affairs Is attrib
uted to rivalry and want of unity
among practitioners In general. As a t
consequence the suggestion Is made thnt
doctors in each district should agree on
a minimum fee below which no one
would be allowed to go, barring, of
course, charity work.
That the conditions In the medical
profession In England are no worse
thnn those In Germany Is shown by a
communication from a correspondent of
the New York Times, in which he
states that the physicians of the vari
ous German cities have been compelled
to advertise that in the future In
creased fees will be charged and al!
consultations by telephone will be
charged for at the Mine rates as gov
ern when patients visit doctors' offlces.
Warning Is also given that night and
Sunday colls will be charged dounie.
The reasons given for tlie increase'
fees are the enormous Increase in liv
ing expenses, heavier taxes and the
general inadequate charges made here
tofore.
Dr. G. Pick, writing of conditions In
Austria, shou-8 that about the same
unsatisfactory state of affairs exists
for the medical profession there as ob
tains in England.
COSMOPOLITAN SHANGHAI.
Contain More People of Different
Itacea than Any Other City.
It' Is the most truly cosmopolitan
city in the world; for Faris, after all.
Is mainly French; London, .after all,
Is mainly English; New York, nfter nil.
Is mainly American. Shanghai has Its
French hotels. Its imposing German
Club, its English Country Club, Its race
track, its Russian bnnk. Its Japanese
mercantile houses, Its American post
office. It is ruled by a council of Eng
lishmen, Germans and Americans. It
Is policed by English bobbles, Irish
men, SIklis from India, and Chinamen.
On the Bubbling Well road, of a sunny
spring afternoon, where the Intest thing
in motor cars wenves through the line
of smart carriages, you may see Span
liH-d elbowing Filipino, Portuguese Jos
tling Parsee, Austrian chatting with
Bavarian ; ond they nil talk, gamble,
drink and buy In pidgin English.
This settlement of fifteen thousand
Europeans, living apart from that pub
11c opinion which comiiels the mainte
nance of a social standard in every Eu
ropean country, and indifferent to that
local public opinion which keeps up a
certain curious standard among the
Chinese themselves, seems to have prac
tically no standard at all. The prob
lem of every decent American or Eng
lishman who finds himself established
In business Is whether he dare bring
his wife and family and introduce them
into, circles so degraded that families
disintegrate and children grow up un
der disheartening Influences. The heavy
drinking of the China coast ports Is
proverbial, yet the drinking seems lit
tle more thnn an Incident In a city
where tlie Bocla) atmosphere is tainted
and altogether unwholesome. Samuel
Merwlu. 'in Success Magazine.
Kipling at Work.
"I have lounged In Rudyard Kip
ling's den at Brattleboro, Vt, before he
deserted America for England and seen
him at his work, lie sat at his table
In a revolving chair. I had a book In
my hand and said nothing unless I was
spoken to, for I was enjoying a great
privilege that was granted to no one
else but his wife. He would write for
a moment, perhaps for ten or fifteen
minutes at a time. If he was writing
verses he would hum very softly to
himself an air which probably kept
tlie rhythm lu his mind. When writing
prose he was silent, but often he would
lay down his pen, whirl round in his
chair and chat for nwhlle. It might le
something relating to the subject he
was treating or bear no relation to it.
Suddenly he would wheel back again,
and his pen would fairly fly over the
paper. He can easily concentrate his
thoughts and as easily descend from
cloud land to the commonplace of the
day, though In his mind and on his lips
nothing Is ever commonplace.- Some
of his poems he has written when
speeding In a Pullman ear at the l'hte
of sixty miles an hour." Pacific
Monthly,-
Jnt So.
Agitator Senator, don't you think
that your colleague's voting for that
graft measure was very foolish?
Senator Grafter Well, yes, In a
way; I think If he'd 'a held out aa
I tol' him to he'd got a good deal more
out of It. Toledo Blade.
No Thank.
"I broke a record to-day. Had the
last word with a woman."
"Didn't think it possible. How'd it
happen?"
"Wiiy, I said to a woman In the car,
'Madam, have m.v Beat' "Philadel
phia Ledger.
DAVIS NOT TO MAREY.
family Opposes Union of Aged Mil
lionaire and Miss Ashford.
Miss Maud Ashford will not becoim.
the wife of former Senator Henry Gns
saway Davis, the multi-millionaire
West Virginian and father-in-law of
Senator Stephen B. Elklns of that
State. The engagement between Miss
Ashford and Mr. Davis has been brok
en, it Is stated. There will be no breach
of promise suit, no money settlement by
Mr. Davis on Miss Ashrord and no fur
ther consideration of an alliance be
tween them. These statements, accord
ing to a Washington dispatch, were
made by Miss Ashford. Rumors had
been circulated that this would be the
HIST. 7fJlVJ
outcome, because of the strong opposi
tion to the proposed marriage by Mrs.
Elklns, daughter of Mr. Davis, and
members of her family.
YOUNG KING OF PORTUGAL.
Manuel EC, at Age of Eighteen Takes
His Murdered Father's Place.
Very unexpectedly a boy of 18 Is
raised to the responsibilities of King of
Portugal. Young Prince Manuel natur
ally felt that tlie burdens and dignity
of that high place were far removed
from him. His royal father was in
the prime of life and his elder brother
stood between him and succession. But
the bullets of the assassins removed
the King and the crown prince In a
twinkling and upon on untruined boy
develops the tremendous duties and
cares of Kingship.
Manuel II., who was proclaimed
King the morning after his father's
death, has served his country in the
navy. He Is a blonde, tall: well edu
cated and considered good-looking. He
Is said to possess the qualities which
go toward making a determined ruler.
Fortunately for him, In the present
MANUEL II.
disturbed condition of affairs England
is bound by treaty not only to prevent
an Invasion of his country but to main
tain the present dynasty on the throne.
Any effort, therefore, to place a pre
tender in his place would lead to arm
ed intervention on the part of Great
Britain.
SHORT NEWS NOTES. '
The Pennsylvana Railway Company's
summer freight house at Cleveland and
KVwK frei8ht cars were burned-
Fire destroyed a part of the Molson
warehouse, occupied by tbe Canadian Pa
cific railway at Montreal. Loss $200000
covered by Insurance. '
The Ohio Supreme Court set aside the
Indictments which had been found against
the so-called bridge trust, holding that
the charges were not sufficiently definite.
An office building at Portsmouth, Va '
containing valuable records belonging to
the Seaboard Air Line railway, was
wrecked by fire and water.
Six Italian, supposed to be member,
of a Black Hand society are under arrest
at Canton, Ohio, upon charges of havina
threatened to kill Mike Altire, a saloon"
keeper, If he did not give them $50 and
Join their society
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