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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1908)
LIKCOLH WIY LEADER RECOLUNS. Editor r N HAVDCN, Maatiar TOLEDO OREGON Tb man who whines never has time to accomplish anything else. Accidents will continue to happen, even In the best regulated families of aeronauts. Everything In the world was cre ated for some purpose. The old bache lor keeps spinsters hopeful. John W. Gates has paid $0,000 for some finger bowls. This Is a big sum to pay for stock Intended to be watered. That man who memorized forty thousand dates would have found It cheaper In the eud to buy an encyclopedia. Medical students by engaging ' In physical conflict furnish the university with subjects for valuable and instruc tive clinics. Russell Snge, so far as known, never spent any of his good money In trac ing his ancestry back to the remote ages of antiquity. If life were a melodrama, we'd get cur reward In the fifth net As it Is, we have to wait until the final cur tain has dropped. Even the Literary Digest, one of the original spelling deforuiers, has aban doned the effort to popularize that monstrosity, "thru." If a man tells a woman she Is pret ty, she believes him. If he tells her the same thing about another woman, she thinks he's Imaginative. Tesslmlsts who thought the earth was drying up will have to. look around for some othr form of trouble that may be used for borrowing purposes. "In proportion to Its size," says the nttsburg Dispatch, "a beetle Is strong er than 100 horses." Still, there's no consolation In that for the man who a yearning for an automobile. That Pittsburg millionaire who Is giving his money to the people whom he desires to have It, without making them wait till he dies, can hardly ex pect to be loudly applauded by the lawyers. Bronson Howard, the dramatist, left an estate that is valued at more than $10,000. Mr. Howard must have received some of the Immense royalties referred to In the advance agent's notices. "The touch of n friend," remarks a Missouri contemporary, "may hurt more than the cut of an enemy." No doubt about It. Especially If the friend forgets the amount he touched vou for. Somebody has made the Interest Ins discovery that the blonde criminals outnumlN'r the brunettes who go wrong. It limy be, however, that the brunettes who bleach are counted as blondes. Within a month after the proclama tion of the new constitution, two hun dred and sixty-five newspapers were established In Turkey. Now the ex periment in free government will not lack editors ready to tell how It should be carried on. Idle and Inconsiderate persons take pleasure In putting freak addresses on letters, to test the Ingenuity of the clerks In deciphering puzzles. The Itrltlsh postmaster-general has very properly given orders that government employes must not hereafter wnste their time, which Is public money, In trying to decipher Intentional crypto A third of our total population Is urban ; the rest Is more or less rural. What the country dwellers need to make them happy, says Harper's Weekly, are religion, education and material prosperity. The farms cannot employ as many laborers per ncre as they did before the coming of agricul tural machinery. Therefore they must either raise fewer children or export xmie of their population to the cities. Physiognomists and common people should be Interested to compare the portraits of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, commander-in-chief of the British Channel Fleet, Admiral Sir John Fisher, First Sea Lord, and Ad miral Itobley D. Evans of the American navy. The .faces are all of the same tyie: square, keen, corners of the mouth down, eyes dead ahead the face cleared for action, as somebody said after looking at a portrait of Ad Ulrul Evans. summer, voted that there ought to be w secretary or line arts in the ministry of every country. Otie of the American' delegates, on bis return from the con gress, said that tie plan favored for this country Involved the appointment of a new cabinet officer, under whom was to be a commission to pass on works of art for the national govern ment and to further art education and to frame such building regulations as would prevent the erection of architec tural monstrosities. This Is the fourth new cabinet office proposed within twelve months. One of the speak ers before the American medical association, at Its convention In Chicago In June, said there ought to be a department of public health, with Its head as one of the President's official advisers. The execu tive council of the American Federation of Labor decided In Washington In March to work for the creation of a de partment of labor, and in October of last year the Grain Dealers' National Association adopted a resolution at Its meeting In Cincinnati favoring the es tablishment of a. department of rail roads charged with the executive func tions of the Interstate Commerce Commission. (EDT1RJSEBF The International congress of archi tects, which was held in Vienna last An English legal periodical discusse recent epidemics of crime and expresses the opinion that the Increase of murder and violence would seem to constitute a grave and critical feature of modern life In great cosmopolitan communities. In Great Britain, It says, outrages and atrocities are reported in the centers with alarming frequency, and from the continent of Europe similar complaints are heard. Paris has for years been fighting Its "Apaches" youthful hood lums and hold-ups who display amaz ing audacity and savagery, and whose leaders often remain undiscovered. A sense of Insecurity spreads among cer tain elements of the population, and there are demands for more police, bet ter detectives, speedier criminal justice. While these demands are perfectly nat ural, the deeier questions as to the causes of the crime epidemics and the tendency to violence should not be neglected. Do the contrasts of life In rich and gay cities make for temptation and crime? To what extent do the In dustrial maladjustments contribute to the evil? Idleness, voluntary and In voluntary, the decay of the apprentice system, the lack of moral training In the schools, the relaxing of home dis cipline, are generally named as other factors In the situation. And then there is the whole chain of complications thar Immigration Introduces. Officers who do fairly efficient work In circumstances with which their experience has made them familiar may display gluing -unfitness under conditions that are strange to them. In New York, we know, the police commissioner Is urging the establishment of a special secret ser- .ice force for operations In the Italian quarter and In other foreign colonies. In Chicago the White Hand Is asking for the appointment of more Italian po lice officers and detectives. The sug gestion that foreign criminals should le pursued by men who understand their language nnd know their habits and tactics is as reasonable as it is natural. In every great city there are strangers of nil sorts nnd conditions, and among these strangers there are characters who left their own country for Its good. There are also in great cities the difficulties that arise from tol erated vice, from certain lodging-houses and refuges of vagrants, from the fa cility with which suspects dodge the officers of the law, and from the failure to prevent the carrying and Indiscrim inate selling of deadly weapons. But, complicated as the problem of city crime Is. there Is no cause fur despair or resignation. Epidemics of violence are not an Inevitable feature of "con centrated, civilization." Efficient and honest police work, with proper ordin ances regarding weapons, vice regula tion, night closing of saloons, etc., will make life In crowded cities much safer than It Is. , Mexico plans to spend $25,000,000 in the near future In experiments In irri gation. A telegraphing typewriter that may be attached to any typewriter is a re cent invention. The United States in 1907 produced 166,005,335 barrels of petroleum, an In crease of nearly 40,000,000 barrels over 1906. Ten coal briquetting plants in the United States produced 63,153 short tons last year, worth on the market $244,942. A company is being formed at Belle fonte, Pa., to manufacture brick the chief ingredient of which will be fur nace slag. The waste products of a nearby coal mine are utilized to furnish the city of Amherst, Nova Scotia, with Jieat and power. Berlin's firemen wear water tight jackets which may be filled from the hose, affording the wearer protection from the heat. Electric railways of the United States have attained a trackage of over 40,000 miles, nearly one-fifth that of the steam lines. Iu Japan a company In manufactur ing a product from volcanic ashes lava explodes, throwing musses or molten fluid 30 or ) feet high, and after each outburst the surrounding lava is sucked into a vortex like that of a maelstrom, solidified cakes 15 or 20 feet in diameter being turned up on edge and drawn in. At another point on the lake the upwelliug of lava from beneath resembles an enormous spring. Crusts four to six feet high are shoved upon the shore like cakes of ice in a spring flood. The glare of the molten lake can be seen at nl&ht more than thirty miles away. LOWEB.LTCG THE FLAG. Tha Herniation Method of Half Mailing the Colors. The method of showing honor to the dead through the position of the flag, placing It at half mast It Is termed In naval circles. In the army, at half staff Is described In Article 41, par agraph 428, of the United States army regulations as follows : "Where the flag is displayed at half staff It is lowered to that position from the top of the staff. It Is after ward hoisted to the top before It is filially lowered." "At military posts," said a sergeant of the army recruiting station, "where the flag staff Is planted In the ground it is usually In two sections and about eighty feet high. When the flag Is placed at half staff It is customary to lower it to the middle of the upper section, which in this case Is consid ered llie bluff. At forts and other pust3 where flags are on top of buildings the NIW HEEU A WAYSIDE SHRINE IN THE ALPS. A i " vl f h. a. , .1 - M'.iScX No Mora Rn-Down Heel. Policemen, actors and other pedes trians should drink a toast to a man in Australia, for he has come forward with a device that will lengthen the Uf of a shoe many months. This device Is an Interchangeable beel which locks to a heel pad by means of plus attached to the latter. Probably the chief cause of a shoe- losing Its shape and wearing out in the uppers Is the running down of the heel, which throws the foot to one side and brings a strain on a part of the shoe not prepared for It. Bun-down heels, too, are responsible for many cases of sore feet and have aided largely in making the business of chiropody a lucrative one. With this new device It will be possible to take off an old heel and put on a new one whenever, tht first Is so worn as to be uncomfortable or uiisijililiy. If people only realise the Importance of a flat heel there would be few limps In the world of walkers. Hint Jelly. Many persons like anything of a food! variety containing gelatine, and the usual meat Jellies contain such, but a splendid Jelly to serve with cold or warm meat Is a mint Jelly, the built made with apples. Cook the apples the same as for apple Jelly, strain the Juice and add a handful of crushed mint. Boil until the flavor Is extracted, strain twice and add the same amount of su gar nnd boll until a thick Jelly ia formed. Grape juice can be flavored In the same manner, and also cranberry Juice, which is really delicious when flavored with fresh mint. Cora Salmi. Eight large ears of sweet corn, thret, larj:e onions, one small head of cabbage, one bunch of celery, three red peppers (the seeds taken out without touching the walls of the peppers), one-fourta of a cup of salt, a quart and a pint of cider vinegar, two heaping teaspoonfuls of mustard, dissolved and siirred in last Chop all the Ingredients except the corn, boll together twenty minutes, add the mustard aud can boiling hot Canned corn might be used if one could not get the green. PUAVEU BEFOUE ASCENDING THE M ATTElt 1IOK N. One of the grandest mountain peaks In the world Is the Matterhorn, which rises to a height of 14,S;55 feet lietween the canton of Valals, Switzerland, aud the Val d'Austa. In Italy. Many have beeu the lives sacrificed in scaling this magnificent peak, and many are the narrow escapes from death recorded. On the way to make an ascent of this perilous mountain it Is usual for climii ers and their guides to slop at one of the many wayside shrines to offer a prayer for safety on their expedition. The accompanying Illustration, taken from the Illustrated London News, depicts such a shrine. The scene Is a beautiful one, showing In the foreground n touching act of faith and devotion, and in the background the flashing white peak of the mountain on which the climbers are about to venture their lives. French Panned Oratera. Drain twenty-five good sized oysters, rub an ounce of butter to a smooth paste with a teaspoonful flour and a teaspoonful minced parsley. Place In a stew pan or chafing dish with the oys ters, add a pinch of cayenne and sea soning salt and stir and cook until the gills begin to curl; then add the yolk of an egg and, still stirring, pour the oysters over some uieely toasted quares of bread and serve at once. A Greater Wonder. . An lnsjwctor was examining a very youthful class of Scotch boys, nnd among other subjects he requested 'he teacher to ask her pupils a few qm.i tlons In nature knowledge. Desiring her class to do her honor, she decide J upon the simple subject, "Chickens." "Now. children," she said, "I want you to tell me something very wonder ful about chickens." "How they get out of their shells," promptly responded one little fellow "Well," said the teacher, "that is of course wonderful, but I mean some thing more wonderful still." There wns a silence for a few sec onds. Then up spoke little Johnny "Please, ma'am, It's malr wonderful hoo they ever got Intae their shells." Ladles' Home Journal. v The Poor Men. Nell A girl shouldn't marry a mat till she knows all about him. Belle Good gracious If she knew all about him she wouldn't want to marry him. Philadelphia Record. The dullest person In the world le comes wonderfully sharp when he be comes suspicious. which Is a good substitute for cement 'or many purposes. A recent account of the natural his tory collections of the British Museum coutains the statement that the num ber of siiecimeus of Insects on exhibi tion there was In 1904, 1,018,000. They belong to no less than 152,972 named species. The Coleoptera (beetles) number 39S.000; the Lepldoptera (moths, butterflies), 355,707. There are 67,300 species of Coleoptera aud 41,210 species of Lepldoptera repre sented. Vet entomologists believe that the larger part of the Insect species of the world has not yet been named or discovered. In a work on a single family of tiny bee' .-a (the Pselaphl die), Mr. A. Ha lira mentions more than 3.000 speci;;. nnd expresses the belief that Huso do net n present bne thlrd of tlie existing forms It will probably be many ytars, says Prof. C. H. nu.;huk. before visitors to the Hawaiian isii-vds will hu.e an other opportunity e;i;.;! to that pre sented during the iiist summer of see ing the volcano of Kilauea In nitisri. Ill cent eruption. Kilaiica h:!S the -r-ei.t-est nctive volcanic crater on the earth, comparable. In fact. In c.xt.nt w::h some of the small lunar enters. t the end of June the enter cm.tiilnul a lake of molten lnva 800 feet long by 400 feet wide. In places the boiling Crop Cataop. Wash and stem tart grapes, cook un til tender and rub through a colander. To every three pints of pulp allow one pound of brown sugar, one cupl'ul of vinegar, a heaping teaspoonful each of ground cinnamon, mace, allspice, salt and pepper and a half teaspoonful of ground cloves. Cook steadily, stirring frequently until the catsup Is reduced to half Its original quantity and Is thick. Bottle and cork when cold. flag, when placed at hairstaff. Is hanc iug from the middle of the staff, the central point of the flag, fhe lower , corner of star section coinciding with ' a point midway between the top and bottom of the staff." I "When a flag is placed at hnlf mast In the navy," said a lieutenant of the! United States naval recruiting station. ! "the distance between the ton of 1 1 I flag and the top of the mast is made to equal approximately the distance be tween the bottom of the flag and the base of the mast." Kansas City Times. An Apolog;?. An excited military looking gentle man entered the editorial sanctum one afternoon, exclaiming: "That notice of my death Is false, sir. I will horse whip you within an Inch of your life, sir, If you don't apologize in your next Issue." The editor Inserted the following Ku-Ai iij . iic cAuruit-ij- regret to an nounce that the paragraph which stat ed that Major Blazer was dead Is with out foundation." Detrlot Free Press. A Happy Memory. She Do you remember that thirty vf.ars ngo you proposed to me and t'i:it I refused you? lie Oh, v-s. That's on- of the most ti ensured recollections of. my youth. Human Life. Olive Oil Plcklea. One gallon of peeled and sliced, cu cumbers, mixed with a cup of salt. Stand for three hours, then drain and mix with three onions, peeled and chop ped, and 1 ounce each of white mustard seed, black peppers and celery seed, and pack the mixture Into glass Jars, press ing It down firmly. Pour into the jars (dividing It equally) a half pint of the best olive oil. Cover with cold cider vinegar and seal. Variety PleUle. - One gallon cabbage, half pint greeu peppers, half gallon green tomatoes, one quart onions, nil chopped. Three tablespoons ground mustard, 2 table spoons ginger, 1 ounce tumeric, 1 ounce celery seed, 2 pounds sugar, half gal lon vinegar, a little salt, half pint lima beans cooked well. Mix and cook thir ty minutes. Vanilla Crabapple Jelly, When putting up crabapple Jelly get 10 cents' worth of vanilla heaus from any drug store. When the juice is strained and measured throw In the piece of vanilla bean and let It boll until Jelly is made. It gives apple Jelly a fine aud delicious flavor. reppera Stuffed With Cheeae. Tako green peppers, seed and boll ten minutes In water in which has been put a pinch of soda. Fill with grated cheese, dip in water and fry in hot lard.
