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.
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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.