LUCOU COIM LEADER
Rt COLLINS, tdfear -r
N HAYDEN, Manager
TOLEDO OREGON
The head that wears the crown is
lolng some more uneasy lying.
One great trouble with flying Is that
the earth Is such a solid thing to fall
on.
Buffaloes are quoted at $1,000 a head,
lias the beef trust secured control of
the buffnlo market?
Canndinn author has written a book
called "The Dungeon," with the Idea,
perhaps, that it will be a good cellar.
If those three airships prove their
Ibllity to sail across the English Chan
nel, where will Britain's "walls of oak"
get off at?
King Edward, it has been announced,
Is out of debt. Like the village bluck
uulth, be can now look the whole world
In the face.
A strong suspicion exists that the
lick mfln of Europe never will be well
until he packs up and goes over to Asia,
where he properly belongs. .
Americans, declares Prof. Zueblln,
prefer the exclusive to the common life.
The man who owns n motor car will be
inclined to deny this asse'rtlon.
When the Englishmen henr that Chi
cago's smoke nuisance is greater than
' that of London th?y will put it down
as nothing but another Yunkee boast.
Mr. Edison may be taking a phys
ical rest, but his imagination appears
to be working overtime when he pre
dicts that we will fly to the north pole
hi forty minutes.
A Chicago mnn Is said to bo nfrnld to
Inherit $1,0(10,000. He should overcome
Ills fears, for even when one has a
million the ownership of an automobile
Is not compulsory.
It Is said there are more blonde
criminals than any other.- Still,
blondes who have managed for a life
time to keep out of Jail need not give
themselves unnecessary worry!
Mr. Edison thinks the present type of
aeroplane will not be the flying ma
rhlne of the future. At the proper
tlmo Mr. Edison will drop a few guard
d hints as to the future airship.
In a recent football game between
teams representing two eastern colleges
eventeen players were knocked uncon
clous. Yet there are people who be-
hime excited over the danger of war In
'he Balkans.
King Edward has paid off all the
debts lie Incurred when he was the
Prince of Wales. This Is highly cred
itable to his majesty, but with a life
long Job and a good salary how could
he have dono otherwise?
The publishers of John D. Rocke
feller's forthcoming story of his life
Advertise that Mr. Rockefeller does not
Indulge In any moralizing or arguing.
"He merely tells how It happened," says
the advertisement, "and lets the render
'drav his own conclusions." In view
of the fact thnt the reader has his
conclusions all drawn now, this is proh
ti Ily n sensible course for the autoblog-
Mplier to take.
A year ago, when times were hard,
rnstwnrd-bound steamers were crowded
with foreigners who had lived for n
time In this country, but were return
ing to their native land, many of th'om
intending to stay there. When the big
Cunarder, Luslranla, came Into New
York the other day, It had on board
even hundred Swedish Immigrants, six
hundred and thirty of whom had gone
home Inst fall. Many of them had not
Intended to come back, but nearly nil
sf them, when questioned, declnred that
they had returned because they found
that they "could not live In the Amerl
ran way" on the other side; and thev
had become accustomed to the freedom
md the luxuries of Amerlcnn life.
It will be thirty yenrs In December
Unco the death of the woman who Is
luposed to have founded the collar In
flustry In Troy, New York. As twen
ty thousand persons are engaged In
making collars and cuffs there, and ns
the city produces nearly nine-tenths of
the collars and cuffs made in this
country, it Is evident that the dlstlnc
Hon of starting the business is consid
erable. It seems that Orlando Montiv
Rue, n Troy shoe manufacturer, was
scrupulously neat and that his wife
found the labor of washing his shirts
burdensome. The Rhlrts of the time
had the collars and cuffs attached, as
have many fine shirts to-day. To avoid
washing the whole shirt when only the
collar was soiled, Mrs. Montngue made
detachable linen bands tied round the
Deck with tapes. Under this arrange
ment her husband could put on a clean
collar every morning and every even
ing without compelling her to spend too
much time over the wash tub. Her
neighbors followed her example, and
the demand for such collars was so
great that a Methodist minister, who
kept a notion store in town, soon em
ployed several women to make them,
while he peddled them from house to
house. Mr. Montague saw that the
business might be profitable, and open
ed a collar factory, where his wife's
Invention was developed and exploited.
Unlike many Inventors, Mrs. Montague,
through the prosperity of her husband,
profited by her discovery.
I
Another expedition in search of
treasure lost in the Spanish main in
the days of the galleon and the free-'
hooter has come to grief. This time it
was a party of five old Harvard men
who blithely set forth in the former
cup defender Mayflower, with divers
and all the parapherimlla necessary to
penetrate the hold of a sunken treas
ure ship and recover enough doubloons
and bullion to place the gold reserve
on an impregnable basis. About the
time the treasure seekers set sail It
was reported that a swarthy crew of
Jolly Rogers who wore the blue of o)A
Yale had chartered a low, rakish craft
to trail the Mayflower. With cutlasses
and pikes, and not forgetting the barrel
of rum, these bold pirates planned to
let the sons of Harvard perform the
hard and dangerous work of recover
ing the fabulous treasure; then a shot
across the bows, boarders over the side
with cutlasses In teeth, five wearers of
the crimson wanting the plank, a scut
tled Mayflower, and then a scoot to the
fastnesses of some West Indian coral
bay to divide the booty. But there
v ill bo no chance for the amateur Cap
tain KIdds and Morgans to carry out
their part of the joke; it has been far
from a Joke with the original treasure
seekers. A hurricane enme up, and the
Mayflower Is now a dismantled derelict
somewhere In the gulf stream, while
the party of five, together with the
seven members of the crew who were
rescued from the bnttered hulk, to
which tl.ej.had clung for forty-eight
hours, have been landed nt the port of
Baltimore by an unromantic Norwegian
trump steamer. Treasure, trove has a
seemingly Irresistible fascination for
the adventurous. It also excites the
cupidity of those who are not adven
turous, and a promoter, It was an
nounced a few days ago, pro)oses to
capitalize that fact by floating a mill
ion dollars of stock In a corporation to
recover about $50,000,000 worth of gold
from a vessel thnt foundered some hun
dred years ago at a spot that has been
"exactly located." Every school boy
knows thnt the ghost of the lamented
Captain Kidd stalks to protect his 111-
gotteu hidden wealth, for which vain
search has been made. Now, It's Just
aa certain that the spooks ' of other
free-booters and mariners who sailed
the Spanish main are ,on guard. They
resent 1 the penetration of their senti
mental past In this day of steam and
gasoline, except by the delvers of the
pen, who find fictions most thrilling
field In that romantic era; and they
make the hurricanes blow ns a warn
ing to those who would disturb the
mysteries of Davy Jones' locker. If
you are not superstitious enough to be
lieve It just ponder the net results of
treasure seeking In real life.
New lawallnn College.
The Hawaii Territorial College of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts begins
work thlp year, according to the New
York Tribune. The Institution will
start with eleven departments of in
struction, and it Is expected tlint Pres
ident Gil more, who goes to the Institu
tion from Cornell University, will take
with him upward of thirty professors
In various branches.
The new college Is supported both by
the territory and by the federal gov
ernment, being on exactly the same
fooling as the schools of similar name.
in each of the states and territories of
the Union, which under nn net of Con
gress are this year drawing $35,000 for
maintenance, which will be Increased
by $5,000 each succeeding year until a
maximum of $50,000 a year is reached,
which amount will remain fixed.
Hnwaii's college will tills year be in
temporary quarters, but n site has al
ready been secured for the permanent
location, and it Is expected that by
next year n portion at least of the new
buildings will have been completed.
Hawaii Is Just beginning- to realize the
wonderful possibilities of ngrleulture
which her soil and climate promise, nnd
results are looked for from the scien
tifically trained young men nnd women
whom the new Institution will turn out
Vnenthmiliiatle.
"Some of the greatest minds In the
country; are now nt work on the prob
lem of improving farm conditions."
"Yes," answered Farmer Corntnssel,
"that's one trouble 'bout farmlu'. Too
many of us want to be workin' our
minds 'stld r' workin' our laud."
Washington Star.
Never look backward unless you
enn profit by the mistakes you huve
made.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS LACK INDUSTRIAL TRAINING.
By Andrew S. Draper.
The length of the school period and the pro
ductive value of the citizen are closely 're
lated. Industrialism is the 'great basis of a
nation's true strength and real culture.
Knowing this, we have seen that there Is
not sufficient articulation between the educa
tional and the industrial systems of the coun
try. We have seen the Indefinite expansion
of instruction and the unlimited multiplication
of appliances leading to literary and professional and
managing occupations without any real solicitude about
the vital Industrial foundations of the nation's happiness
and power. A situation manifestly unjust to the greater
number, even unjust to those for whom it has done the
most, has resulted.
Notwithstanding our boasted universality of educa
tlonal opportunity, there has grown up an absurd hiatus
In the educational system which denies the Just rights
of the wage-earning masses and grievously menaces the
'Industrial efficiency and the material prosperity of the
country. There should be an open chance for every
American child. The Influences of the schools must not
lead boys who might become excellent cablnotmakers Into
being' no-account lawyers and girls who might be first
class breadmnkers into being fourth-class music teachers.
The school system has grown deformed ; it is one-sided
ond not broad enough at the base.
A GOOD HUSBAND'S HARD LOT.
By Louise Satterthwalthe.
Sometimes, It seems to me, that worn and
worried wives and mothers forget, or at least
neglect to remember, thnt good husbands bear
their equal half of the burden. A woman who
rims a house and cares for children has no
sinecure; this Is the truth; but the man who
has to find every cent to pay for it all has no
easy snap of It, either. A woman's work Is
never done, the old saying runs, and where
there are children it truly Is, never done; night as well
as day the mother forever has the yoke upon her neck ;
a thousand trifling duties and exasperations pursue her
like a cloud of midges. So, if she sometimes complains,
who can blame her? Though there are thousands who
never utter one word, but do their best always and cheer
fully, so long as they live. But to the woman who be
lieves thnt all that husband does is to go dowutowu and
there while the hours away till ti o'clock In Joyous free
dom I' would 6iiy that I would like her to really know
what it means.
To many a man it means being virtually a slave. Tho
mother, at least while she may be slave to her work,
can order It as It suits ber; but the man who Is servant
of another. must take what is said to him, obey orders
grimy; he must there put In his days and never be found
away from there; and let him try ever so bard and work
with his best might, always and forever, he is in that
Jeopardy that the next day may bring him the words,
"Your services are no longer required." Ilis Job may be
wanted by the bows for a friend, or It may be decided
that what he does Is not paying right. lie 1b at the
mercy of any trivial circumstance, and he knows It
Does he succeed In holding It down for many years, still
when gray hairs come upon him he may get his walking
papers and at Inst his lifelong fear be realized. Such is
the part and lot of the hard-working, good husband
whose only hope is to provide for his family so long as
he lives; and while his wife has it hard, she must also
remember that be Is bearing his equal share.
THE SENSATIONS OF YOUTH.
I By Q. Stanley Hall.
Young people need to tingle with sentiments,
and the appetite for excitement and sensation
Is at Its height in the teens. Here Is where
the principle of vlearlousuess gives the teach
er one of his chief opportunities and resources.
Excitement the young must have, for feeling
are now their life. If. they cannot find It in
the worthy, they are strongly predisposed to
seek it in the grosser forms of pleasure.
Hence, every glow of esthetic appreciation, every thrill
aroused by herolwu, every puise of iciiiuua aa'ii nl'mu
weakens by Just so much the potential energy of passion,
because It has found Its kinetic equivalent in a higher
form of expression. It is from this point of view that
some of our German co-laborers have even gone so far
as to advocate a carefully-selected course of love stories,
chosen so as to bring out the most chlvalrtc side of the
tender passion at this age, when it is most plastic and
cnpoble of Idealization; while others have advocated
theater-going to selected plays, palpitating with life, ac
tion and adventure, that emotional tension may be dis
charged not merely harmlessly, but In an elevating way..
American Magazine.
VOTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR POLITICAL GRAFT.
By H. C. Loudenslager.
e will never have really pure politics hi
America until we devise some means for com
pelling voters to perform their duties. At the
present rime the percentage of men who shirk
their responsibility, particularly at the pri
maries, Is enormous. The result is that the
political game in America is played too often
only by an inferior class of citizens, who could
easily be outvoted by good men. These de
faulting good citizens who neglect their duty to the com
munity are responsible for graft In public life, for boss
Ibui In States and cities and for practically every In
iquity of American politics., This Is a fact which Is
and put pride and in many ca6 principle In his
pocket. On such a husband, mta always the haunting J known to every practical illtle!an and to every ninn
responsibility of maintaining tile home. He can nevefl who has ever run for public office. If they would do
foreot that mother and children look to him and to hlniM their duty we would have clean politics. We never will
alone for bread and shelter and food. This burden is
no slight one. He must stay for every day In the week
In on room at one place, be it bright or dark, clean or
bava clean politics until the txerclse of the right of
voting is made compulsory by avery person who Is en
titled to caBt a "ballot
AIDS THOUSANDS 07 MUTES.
London Rector Talks to 2,000 tn Hla
Chnrch and Gives Needy Help,
London has 2,000 deaf and dumb per
sons who attend St. Savior's Episcopal
Church In Oxford street the rector of'
to his congregation, but enables the
clergyman to give more Impresslvencss
to words and passages than could be
obtained from the simple spelling of
words on the fingers.
Many young men and. women are
helped to positions by their ' rector.
A T
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' KUADl.NU 11115 SttUVluE IN llllli SlUAl LiAAuLiAUUi.
which is the Kev. F. W. Gilby, who, al
though not a deaf mute, is n son of
parents thus nfllicted. His congregation
Is mixed, including aristocrats and ven
bootblacks. He makes his signs ns pic
turesque ns possible, which action not
only quickens the process of "speaking"
They become proficient and are well
paid. . The late Sir John BlumTell Maple
made it a point to employ as mnny as
he could and always paid sdeh appren
tices regular wages from the start. In
that way he Indulged In a form of prac
tical charity, but It was a bit of phil
anthropy which Inflicted no wound upon
the pride of the beneficiary.
POINT IN TYPEWRITING.
Why In. Some 'Work the Perloda ana
Commaa Sho-nr So 11 lack and Deep.
"When in anything typewritten you
see the periods and commas punched
black and deep," suid nn experienced
typewriter to a New York Sun man.
"you may know that the work was
done by a beginner or by one who had
not yet done sufficient work to have
acquired a perfect touch.
"The renson for the deep punching of
Hie punctuation points Is very simple.
Naturally enough the beginner nt type
writing plays upon nil the kevs with
equal force, but ns the types attached
to the keys present unequal amounts
of printing surface it follows that equal
force applied to all the keys results in
more or vsa unequal printing on the
paper.
"For instance, a certain nmount of
force npplied to 'the B kev n.l.M.t ,...
diu-e of that type a fair impression on
the paper, but the same force applied
to a period might drive that, a mere
point, clean through tthe paper. In
fact, it is not unusual for beginners on
the typewriter to punch holes In the
paper with their periods.
"Hut as the learner progresses In her
art she conies to realize that some
types must be touched more lightly
than others and gradually her period's
become less black nnd deep, nnd will!
further practice she conies Instinctive
ly, automatically, to grade her touch on
all the letters nnd signs until nt last
she Is able to produce- typewriting that
Is nothing less than nrtlstic in effect
true nnd uniform nud beautiful. '
"It is something fine to see, tho good
work' of tho Intelligent, sensitive and
truly competent typewriter."
Tho Biter Dlt.
Hewitt Who was that fellow who
in a fit of absent uilndedness tried to
light his cigar from the electric llKht?
Jewett He's a joke writer who makes
a specialty of Jokes about countrymen
blowing out the gas. New York Press.
One trouble with the mnn who starts
out to kill time Is that he kills a lot
of time belonging to busy people.
Time may wait for no man, yet It
managea to get him in tho end.