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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1908)
UHOOLti GOIiilTK LEADER R f COLLINS. fdiUf r N HAYDEN, MtiuiW TOLEDO OREGON A pencil Is often hard pushed to tell the truth. Man grumbles most where he Is treated best at home. Styles sometimes make a handsome woman look otherwise. A man who makes a political speech Isn't necessarily expected to tell the truth. Often a benedick Is but an ex-bachelor who was overtaken by misfortune ud a widow. There Is at least one thing that may be said In favor of football. Nobody has to play It I Any man can take a day off, but when It comes to ' putting It back well that is different Grover Cleveland's word to the American historian doubtless would be: "Tell the Truth." Because the average man Just has to make some sort of a fool of himself he might as well be in love. It must te awfully hard on the fussy old bachelor who has to live In the same house with a clever child. A married man says the comforts of home would be more enjoyable If they didn't Include the discomfort of pay ing for them. The horror story from Laporte, lad., will mnke little old New York and other great centers of crime take a back seat for a while at least. An Injunction has been Issued In Brooklyn to restrain the goats from eating cherry trees. Yet some people vast the Injunction abolished. Worcester, Mass., Is to have a church where people will be asked to pay as they enter. It Is announced, however, that there will be no extra charges for lsltlng concessions Inside. Baseball Is being Introduced Into Ger many. When the umpire makes an un popular decision, the staid Germans will wonder why they ever considered a debate in the Reichstag exciting. "Really great men," says the Salt Lake Tribune, "are those who feel their own sinallness." But mighty few men have any use for friends who make them feel small, nevertheless and not withstanding. One of the magazines publishes an ar ticle In which It Is declared that every married woman should have an income of at least 5,000 a year. A larire ma- Jorlty of the married men will agree o tuo proposition. The pnsslon for traveling, whether alone or with the family or in the coin pany of flag-waving citizens from the Panhandle and Great Lakes, has done the American people a world of good. The Intelligent observation of foreign life has a leveling effect that Is eood for the observer himself, and for the world In general. It dulls conceit and sharpens sympathy. The Japanese have taken a leaf out of the American book in this respect, and in the last few years have begun to travel fast and far. Americans spend millions of dol lars In Europe; but it Is hardly onen to a question that the extravagance which Rome people donreente is not more than offset by the Inestimably beneficial Impressions received by the thousands who keen their eves and ears rather than their purses open, and who bring these Impressions back to Improve the stay-at-homes. In an editorial unon farmlnc mpth ods the Electrical Review says that the advances made In transporting and manufacturing since the adaptation of electricity to motors should be repeated on tne rarm. Says the Review: "It will be strange If before lone the nilrlt of advance does not Infuse a new life Into farming methods. May we not ex pect that our newer power agencies will extend their Influence to the work of the fnrin, relieving it of much of the drudgery that still exists and making the work as attractive and pleasant aa any other pursuit? When this comes about we may expect to see farming take on a new life and flourish In places where It has long languished. inserted rarms may then be reclaimed and a profitable field of work offered to many who now crowd Into the manu facturing towns in search of a surer means of livelihood." An lnstanm cited where a small waterfall on an abandoned mill site was harnessed and made to do the work of two horses and light the buildings on two farms. The total coat of installation was about equal the cost of running the plant Is prao-j tlcally nothing. It requires but little ' nuvniCUD IU UUUUIO LI Li i LJ j mysterious as this agent Is. Many of the successful electricians of to-dny knew nothing of the subject a few years ago. The knowledge of machin ery required for a farm plant Is pos sessed by the average farmer already. Given the power, which Is simple and cheap If drawn from a stream, the ap plication of it to the machine can be made by an amateur, and this being the case the farm should not be the last and least to profit by this wonder ful agent Capitalists are reaching out for the great waterfall energy of the country with a view to setting it to turning wheels. An Idea that Is good for them in a large way may be good for the agriculturist In a small way. All classes of thinkers, realizing thai education Is the nation's first problem, have contributed to the discussion of the school question. The physician has made his plea for the child's houlth, the clergyman has put in his word for religious Instruction, the em ployer hus asked for schools to send him graduates trained In the rudiments of business. - All this Interest in educa tion stlmulutes touchers and keeps the schools abundantly equipped and pro gressive. But under all the varied questions, the fundamental purpose of education is sometimes burled from sight Prof.. Frledrlch Paulsen, a Ger man t,Rh,r nnd ph!1nnphr, hns re cently summoned his countrymen to remember the old moral roots of ed ucation. His article, translated in the Educational Review, bids us hold fast to tho principles that education means training in obedience, application and the subjection of the young will to the older disciplined will. This philosopher and teacher of. ethics knows that the civilized human being is he who can drive a controlled mind to a definite goal, and that schools and parental dis cipline and churches have as their ob ject the making of civilized men and women out of raw material. So that when a devotee of "child-psychology" advocates the study of the child-bent and adaptation of educational methods to the young Individual soul, the old- fnshloned teacher agrees, provided the teacher and not the child Is to do the adapting.. When the preacher of health and nature shows the beautiful devel opment of free childhood running wild in the open fields, the old-fashioned teacher admits the poetry of the idea, but Insists that the child will never enjoy freedom until he has learned' me thodically to do as he Is told, indoors and out And when the pedagogical expert devises a course In manual training, French, music and nature study, the same old-fashioned teacher accepts the combination, provided the1 pupil be required to do his work thor oughly In each subject, whether he likes It or not. MJTIC OFFICE BUILDK5; smi cowsiRicnonrs cum. With the announcement from New York that the Equitable Life Assurance Society Intends to erect the tallest building In the world arises the ques tion how far architects and builders will go before reaching the limit of their efforts to pierce the clouds. A few years ago the Masonic Temple In Chicago and the World building in New York were looked upon ns mir acles. They are commonplace to-day. The projected Equitable Life build ing Is to be sixty-two stories high and Its top will be 009 feet above the side walk. The flagstaff crowning this stu pendous structure will be 15"0 feet above the roof, making the height to the tip of the pole 1,050 feet, or about one fifth of a mile. The Eiffel tower in Paris Is seventy-five feet lower, being 084 feet above the ground. Following are the tallest buildings and other structures in the world : Stories. Feet. Eiffel Tower 084 Equitable building (pro posed) 62 00!) Metropolitan building 50 01)3 Singer building 41 612 Washington Monument 555 Pyramid of Cheops 451 Se. Peter's, Rome 448 St. Paul's, London 3(J4 . Top of cross. An I'ncanny riant. On the shores of Lake Nlcoragua l to be found an uncanny product of the vegetable kingdom known among the natives by the expressive name of "the devil's noose." Dunstnn, the natural ist, discovered it while wandering on the shores of the lake. Attracted by cries of pain and terror from his dog he found the animal held by black, sticky bands, which had chafed the skin to the bleeding point. These bands were branches of a newly discovered carnivorous plant, which has been aptly named the "land octopus." The branch es are flexible, black, polished, without leaves, and secrete a viscid fluid. The trouble with these good long talks is that they are seldom good; and are always too long. I - TO -Or. c fsu&ms: The Choctaw and Chtckaaawa. Together when history dawned upon the continent, together when the white man drove them post the Mississippi, and together in the twilight of the tribes, the Choctaws and the Chlcka saws are passing into the body politic and the citizenship of Oklahoma side by side. These two tribes now 70 per cent of mixed blood, and nearly all as capable a set, of citizens as their white neighbors can hardly be dealt with in separate stories. The Chlckasaws and Choctaws, both of Moblllan stock, lived In Mississippi when De Soto marched across the land, and the Chlckasaws gave him some ter rific battles. When the French rose Into power in Louisiana, the twin tribes disagreed. The Choctaws fought for the French and the Chlckasaws boldly withstood the invaders. Several French expeditions were defeated, a number of French officers were burned at the stake, and the Chlckasaws, allied with the Natchez, threatened New Orleans. Only the courage of the colonists and tue assistance of the Choctaws saved Lou isiana. ' ' In later years the tribes grew friend ly again, refrained from trouble with the whites, and even fought the Creek and Seminole for the paleface intruder. This did not save them from exile, and, about seventy years ago, the two tribes totaling about 20,000, we're taken to Indian territory. There they flourished and grew rich, only to lose lands, wealth and slaves during the Civil War. Since that time they have climbed steadily up again, and have intermixed continually with the whites. When the rolls were prepared for al lotment last year, the Choctaws had about 19,000 full and mixed-blood mem bers, and the Chlckasaws about 6,000. These rolls must have been gloriously swelled somehow, for the State census of Oklahoma shows only about 17,00 Indians in the counties that once com posed the Choctaw and Chickasaw na tions. Nearly 10,000 negroes and 2,200 Intermarried whites were also Included In the allotments. With the Chlcka saws, and, it is said, retaining to the last their sun worship and other strange Aztec rites, live the remnant of the Natchez, perhaps 300 souls. It has been repeatedly asserted by army officers who have served In both Indian territory and the Philippines that the language of the Igorrotes is Identical with that of the Moblllan In dians, which would Indicate that these tribes came from the orient countless ages gone by. There are many tribes on the Pacific coast bearing the unmis takable stamp of Chinese and Japanese extraction, and others which have cus toms, totems and tattooing methods similar to the tribes of the Pacific Isles. POLITENESS IN WASHINGTON. A City of Lelanrely Ways and Proud Yet Courteoua Manner. Washington lg bounded on the east by the Capitol and on the west by the White House. Between them flows a restless stream of sightseers. There may be other districts of the national capital worth seeing, but only a Wnsh Ingtonlan knows It The tourist has time nnd strength only to hit the high places. , ' In New York there are probably as many tourists as In Washington, 'but with this difference, the New Yorker does not mind mixing with the tourist class. In fact, if the tourist have money nnd 'a fondness for Broadway and contiguous resorts, the New Yorker Is more than willing, so Mr. Tourist emerges his Identity with the New York "push: " Washlngtonians never let you forget you are a tourist Resi dent women slightly raise their skirts with an Indescribable yet eloquent nlr when they happen to rub elbows with a mere tourist of the same sex in a hotel or department store elevator. A Washlngtonlan looks straight ahead at nothing; the tourist is known by the angle at which she crooks her neck. Resident Washington Is divided Into three distinct sets old families, people tvlth money and people without money. Those without money work hard to keep up appearances with those who have money. Those with money work hartl to secure social recognition from the old families. The old families are Indifferent equally to those with money and those without The hardest-worked class of all nre those who, having accepted public office and removed their lares and penates to the national capital, find that the Balary will not pay for the game. You know their women folk by the fact that they wear ready-mnde gowns. Your real Wash lngtonlan considers the wearing of factory-made garments equivalent to sink ing to the lowest sartorial depths. Washlngtonians' do not hurry home rrom work. If you are anybody at all In Washington you must be leisurely. Only as a tourist do you hurry, .an( after a conductor has held you at arm'i length when you are too hasty Ir boarding or leaving a car you beglt to Blow down, too. There is no rust hour in Washington, nnd there are can enough to go around. Likewise you car cross the street at any point along tlx block without danger of being rur down, yelled at or told to "step llvely.N Politeness seems really common ir Washington, and courtesy possible ever In ten-dollar-a-week clerks. Drop lntc a real estate office. The young mar behind the counter not only lnformi you how easily you could rent an apart nient 'in the house occupied by Mist Ilagner Mrs. Roosevelt's social secre tary, but he advises you as to employ ment agencies. And he stands up sc long as you are In the office. In New York, the would-be tenant, man oi woman, stands up and the agent slti down with his feet on a table if it li good renting weather; and it is inuct the same in other cities. and Accounts of twenty-two waterspout noted on nine Swiss lakes have been collected by Prof. J. Fruh. That ol June 19, 1005, on Lake Zug, was about 20 yards In diameter, and It stirred up the lake over a radius of pei-nups IOC yards. Several photographs were se cured. The whirling column more than half a mile high was hollow, had a left-handed motion and traveled east ward at the rate of a little more than seven miles an hour. No Important ev idence was found that any of these wa terspouts were produced by the meet ing of opposite winds. C. G. Bates of the United States For est Service has found In western Ar kansns a species of hickory, local lj known as "bull," or "alligator," hick ory, which exhibits remarkable resist ance to the effects of drought, as wei; as to forest fires. Its small, thick skinned leaves are assigned as a prin cipal cause of Its drought-defying pow ers. Like other hickories, It also sends down" Into the soil a long, strong tap roof. Mr. Bates suggests that this tree would be useful for planting In prairie States and In dry situations In other lo calities. When fires frequently occur, the alligator hickory is the sole sur vivor. In a recent book on "The Evplutlon of Dress," W. M. Webb shows thai many details of modern 'dress, gener ally regarded as products of caprice oi accident, or of the Invention of tailors and milliners, are traceable to primi tive forms, and that fashion iu costume Is the result of a process of evolution in which early ideas continually crop out. The earliest form of dress seems to have been the shawl, or wrapper, and fringes date back to the first loom. The hatband Is traced to the original fast ening of the first cloth headdress. Put tees are as old as Mymenre. A mystery yet unexplained Is the sewing of the buttons on the right-hand side of a man's coat and the left-hand side of s woman's. A bold and interesting generaliza tion concerning the vast effects which miliaria may have produced on the his tory of great and famous nations nnd peoples has recently appeared In En gland In the form of a book by W. II. S. Jones, supplemented with an Into duction by MaJ. Ronald Ross. It Is suggested that the mosquito has been largely responsible for the decline of certain nations, as, for Instance, Greece, In the character of whose peo ple historians have recorded a great change during the fourth century be fore the Christian era. Major Ross's investigations suggest that malaria may have been introduced Into Greece at that time. The conclusion is also drawn that malaria did not exist In Italy much before 200 B. C, and the suggestion is made that Hannibal's army introduced itr "Malaria," says M. Jones, "made the Greek weak and Inefficient; It turned the sterner Ro man into a bloodthirsty brute atra bills made Its victims man." The moral seems to be that nations, like lndlvdu als, should beware of mosquitoes. Explained. The Aged Angler Oh, ay; the last flsh I caught were a proper big 'un, an' no mistake. The Inquiring Angler Indeed T Why didn't you have It stuffed? The Aged Angler Well, you see, I weren't more nor a lad at the time. The Sketch. . The Clrenmatancea. ' "That rich heiress let me hold her hand last night." "Don't tell me such yarns!" "Fact! At the bridge table, while she answered a phone call." Phlladeb phla Inquirer. Yea, Indeed. "Yes, he Is worth a million, and he made every penny of It honestly." "How old-fashioned I" Houston Post JSdfJN Above the grave of a notorious lazy man In a Southern churobvq-it are the words: "Asleep (as usual)." Prospective Suitor Sir, I love your daughter. Her Fathor Well, don't come to me with your troubles. Stella Can you dress within your Income? Bella Yes; but it Is Ilka dressing within a berth In a sleeping car. Harper's Bazaar. M,r. Volgarhelm (after the ball) See, Josephine, a spoon ; one of our guests must have had a hole In his pocket. Meggeudorfor Blatter. "Now, don't deny It, Rose. You wore my shoes?" "Only once my feet hurt me so, and I wanted something com fortable." Meggensdorfer Blatter. ."What do you expect to be when you come of age, my little man?" asked the visitor. "Twenty-one," was the little mun's reply. The Herald and Presby ter. Barber Try a bottle of this prepa ration, sir. Splendid thing for bad ness. Customer Don't doubt it, but I've got all the baldness I waut, thank you. Tiaica. Miss Llngerlong You have been a widower for ten years, haven't you, Mr. Flint? Mr. Flint Yes, and I am Just as persistent In It as I ever was, thank you! Smart Sot Molly When you spoke to father, did you tell him you had $300 In the bank? George Yes. Molly And what did he say? George He borrow ed It Sketchy Bits. Teacher If your father owed the butcher $17.23, tho buker $13.23. and the grocer $18.05, how much would be have to pay in nil? Tommy Harlumln Nothln'. He'd move. "Could you bring yourself to live In a flut on $20 a week?" "I could, Har old," answered tho pampered yet un spoiled darling. "But I do not know Just how It would suit my French inuld." "I wouldn't cry like that If I were you," said a lady to little Alice. "Well," said Alice, between her sobs, "you can cry aiiy way you like, but this is my way." Tho United Presby terian. Mrs. Newlywed I want to buy a steak. Lumberman Hickory, oak or ash? Mrs. Newlywed Porterhouse. Lumberman You'll find that In the butcher shop. This Is a lumber yard. Judge. Tho Wife During our courtship my husband declared I was too good for him. The Friend Does he' think so still? The Wife Yes, especially when I want him to accompany me to church on Sundays. "Have you decided, Miss Ethel, where you are going for the summer J" "It's between two places, Mr. Johnsou." "Which two?" "Ma says It's to Swit zerland nnd pa says It's to the poor house." Tatler. Kulcker There are plenty of books telling how to save life while waiting for the doctor. Booker Yes. What we need Is one telling the young doctor how to save life while waiting for the patient. Transcript. "What I going to leave us so soon. Thomas?" "Sorry, sir; but I must tell you as 'ow I can't put up with the missus any longer." "But, Thomas (appeallngly), think how long I've put up with her I" Judge. "They tell me," said the now report er, who was doing an Interview, "that you have succeeded in forging your way to the front." "Sir," replied tho self-made man, coldly, "you have been misinformed. I'm no forger." Towne Do yon believe In dreams? Browne I used to, but I don't any more. Towne Not as superstitious as you were, eh? Browne Oh, it wasn't a question of superstition. I was In ove rlth one once, and she Jilted mo. "Mrs. Jeuks, if you wore a kind lady with five cents she didn't need, an I was a little boy that didn't know any better an' asked her for It, do you think she could maybe afford to lend It to him If I promised her faithfully that he'd pay you back?" Exchange During the dinner hour on board a steamer the other day a passenger was much disturbed by the vulgar way In which the man who sat next to him ate his meat At lost, after watching hlra pick a bone in a very primitive fashion, he eould control his feelings no longer, and, turning to the offending party, he soldi "Don't you think you would be more comfortable If you took that out on the mat?" Tlt-Blts. We hate to have a stranger come up to us, and sayi "Guess who I A stitch in time may save a big su. geona' fee later.