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.
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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.
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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.