Lincoln County leader., May 14, 1909, Image 2

LINCOLN CODITT LEADEB
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Cut Is going la for basebtH. BheH
be a great country yet.
ETerythlng may be made of cement
by and by. This may be the dawn of
the cement age.
Does anybody remember the name of
the gentleman who became prealdect of
Iiaytl a few week ago?
After all It Is the wedding march
composed by Mendelssohn that keeps
bla memory marching on.
Denver has a three-weeks-old baby
that can talk. Let us hope she will
grow up to be a useful woman.
"Marriage Is a woman's duty," says
a magazine writer. And the average
woman governs herself accordingly.
In sleeping out of doors during the
winter season it Is permissible for bald
beaded gentlemen to wear stocking
caps.
If Hero Pinns, on a salary of $12 a
week, refused an offer of $1,000 a week
from a dime museum manager, be la
Indeed a hero.
"New Jersey has discovered foot
prints of the devil." And In all proba
bility about half the men In the State
re following tfiem.
Mr. Fairbanks will take a trip
around the world. Thus the world will
get an opportunity to see what an ex
Tlce president looks like.
Aristocratic hotels in London now
offer pedigreed oysters to their guests,
many of whom have long been acquaint
ed with pedigreed lobsters.
Headwear made of straw was already
la use among tho ancient Greeks, but
straw hats, like those we wear, did not
come Into use In Europe until half a
oentury ago.
"Should actresses marry?" asks a
French paper. Yes; but It might be
veil if they were to quit marrying as
often as they have been In the habit of
marrying heretofore.
King Alfonso was allowed to sit In
the flying machine and try the levers,
but he had promised bis wife that hi
would not go up, and he didn't There's
kingly man for you!
The Ladles' Home Journal Is right
lady should precede her escort down
the alslo of the theater, but In church
going, lest he should get away, she
"mould Bhoo the man on ahead.
A Kentucky woman wants a divorce
bocause her husband whistled and sang
while she scolded him. The noor fel-
low'B name should be sent to the Car-
Deglo hero commission at once.
KusHla Is going to build 148.179
school houses within tho next ton von rs
Teaching tho children thut two and
two make four will bo much better
than having thorn studying the art of
throwing bombs at crowned heads.
Fog is the one great obstacle to safe
and speedy navigation, against which
science has made llttlo progress. Science
cannot re-enforce eyes or glasses to the
point that will penetrate tho curtain
of the fog, but Indirectly science by
the wireless telegraphy can throw out
warnings which If not completo are of
mighty assistance to the puzzled man
on the brldgo' who Is enabled to pick
them up.
An American citizen has been releas
ed after being locked up on a false ar
rest for two weeks In a British Jail in
Oulana. It was after energetic work
by th's government that he was allowed
to provo his Identity. If the case were
reversed, the British government would
Lave been In an indignant state of In-
stence on its subject's release, for
there Is no point on which the British
government is so tenacious as the
rights and liberties of Its own subjects
In other lands. But governments, like
Individuals, are apt to be a triflo incon
sistent Amid all our questioning certain facts
remain. Wo know that mother's love,
the love of wife, of husbaud, of chil
dren, and of friends, Is real. We know
that some men spend their lives for a
great cause, that some will die for the
truth. Every day the press tells of
some deed that reveals the capacity for
heroic action that lies In all men. On
every hand we see evidences, of good
will and kindliness. No bitter experi
ence, no misfortune, should blind our
eyes to these great facts of life. On
these we can build a faith that reaches
to God. .
A witness should be made to under
Und atonce upon taking the stand
what Is expected of him, and to sub-
mit graciously and patiently to any
kind of examination abort of physical
attack which lawyers may make. Sup
pee an attorney snarls, snar. and
growls at the witness, or sneering y
smiles a suspicion. What of it? A
witness Is only an unprotected, defense-
lea citizen doing his duty; to be terrl
Ced or cajoled into revealing his inner
most thoughts according to the way the
lawyer Intends him to speak them. To
lmpuga the Teradty of a witness by
insinuation or veiled threats Is a legiti
mate device for rolling him to the
point of saying something which may
be used to advantage against him.
What 1 A witness to be allowed to tell
a simple tale of what he had seen or
heard, uninterrupted and undismayed''
Never! Justice might be pre -lpltated.
and witnesses might retain their self
respect Witnesses may be distressed,
bullied, and cowed, but legal circum
locution must be preserved and the
dignity of the advocate safeguarded.
One of the denominational religiou?
publications which secures statlstiej
each year on the growth of the church
population of the United States hat
Just published figures which show a
smaller Increase in 1908 than in 1907.
The earlier year was, h'owever, phe
nomenal In certain details of the re
corded growth, and the Increase of th(
last year is not at all disappointing
The figures show a net Increase foi
10GS of 2,.CC iitlii'otiTS, 1,871 churchoi
and 720,047 communicants. The growth
of the Catholic church Is, of course. In
cluded, though the statistics come from
a Protestant source. The most Inter
esting feature of the statistics Is a
comparison with similar statistics ot
1890. The total number of communi
cants to-day Is put at 84,282,543, or al
most 40 per cent of the entire esti
mated population of the nation, and
this Is a growth of CO per cent In the
last eighteen years. The number ol
ministers In 1908, 105,725, Indicates a
growth of 49 per cent In the period.
And the number of churches, 213,049,
shows a growth of 49 per cent. Thai
this growth Is really of great signifi
cance appears when one compares It
with the total growth of the country
In population In the same period. Of
course, the 1908 population figure must
be an estimate, but If one takes tho es
timate used by government authorities
at Washington one is safe enough. On
this basis the growth of our population
has been only Just about 40 per cent
In the eighteen years. The rate of In
crease In church communicants Is
therefore more thnn half nirnln ah
rapid as that In total population. The
churches are Indeed to be congratulated
on the showing.
DEADLY HOKNETS.
Tha Ones That Buued About the
Young- Soldier' Ear.
A great general was taking his regi
ment Into action. He sent forward a
detail of men to make gaps in a rail
fence to avoid the heavy loss sure to
result if the whole body of men paused
to tear it down.
The coolest and finest ninn in the de
tail was a young soldier who had never
been under firo before. When he begnn
pulling down ithe fence he fancied he
had dlslurbed'-a nest of hornets, as he
thought he heard tlioin singing fiercely
about his ears. But the lad was not
going to run from hornets when there
was more serious business ahead.
Ignoring the angry insects, he
opened the fence and rejoined the regi
ment without being stung.
In a day or two he was surprised to
hear that he was to be promoted.
"But," he said modestly, "I don't
think I deserve promotion over the
others."
'Wly boy," replied the general, "I
saw you pull down that fence. 1'ou
were the coolest man under lire I ever
saw 1"
Tho man gasped, stared and turned
pale.
"What!" he exclaimed, regardless of
grammar. "Was them wasps bullets?"
Am Time la Reckoned.
'They do say there be sixty minutes
In every hour, Jack."
"That may be, Tom, but they do be
awful short minutes they put In th'
noon hour."
One of these days a babr will wake
up in a photograph gallery to find lta
mother bending over it with drapery:
on her head, a la Madonna, and the '
child will be so shocked to think Its
mother has worn the dishcloth down
town, that It will spoil the picture by
inxowinv i nt
FASHION INFORMATION,
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Children's Fashions in Some Instances Will Remain the Same as
Last Year.
SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT,
rred W. Carpenter, Who la Mr.
Taft'a Itlicbt Hand Man.
The secretary to the president of the
united States has nearly as much pow
er as a cabinet member and more than
many of them, writes a Washington
correspondent. He has a potential op
portunity to rise, witness George Bruce
Cortelyou, who went from the presl
deritlal secretaryship to the postmnstnr
generalship and then to the all import
ant folio of the treasury. Witness also
William Loeb, Jr., whose future has
bothered President Taft's advisers more
than1 any other single man because it
was a foregone, conclusion that Roose
velt's secretary must land in a sub
stantial berth. And because Loeb
couldn't be made secretary of the navy
owing to previous mortgages he Is
now headed toward the collectorshlp of
the port of New York, which Isn't a
bad direction to be going toward, since
it pays a fat stipend and since It was
Chester A. Arthur's stepping stone to
the vice presidency, which In turn, was
a stepping stone to the presidency.
Loeb has a right to hope to be presi
dent Cortelyou has a very clear ex
pectation on the same subject. Where
fore the latest presidential timber to be
projected into the limelight presiden
tial timber because of the Job he is to
hold Is Fred W. Carpenter. Carpen
ter may be a cabinet member, too,
pretty soon. It Is quite a habit. Cleve.
land started It when he raised Daniel
S. Lamont to the secretaryship of war.
No appointment in the new presiden
tial regime will be more generally sanc
tioned then that of Fred W. Carpenter
for the post of chief aid In the business
establishment at the White House. Car
penter has been for ten years past the
"right hand mnn" of William H. Taft
and has earned the promotion that will
place him at the head of the busbies
staff at the executive offices a staff
made up of forty-two assistant secre
taries, clerks, telephone and telegraph
operators, messengers, etc.
Carpenter, who will be 87 years of
ago next December, is a native of the
little town of Sauk Center, Minn., but
in 1882, when only 10 years old, his
father removed to California and most
of his boyhood was spent on a ranch
in the Golden Gate state, enjoying all
the forms of open air life and instilling
what has ever since been an abiding
affection for this climatic paradise.
Young Carpenter attended the public
schools in California and a private aca
demy until he had almost reached bis
majority, when he returned to his na
tive state and entered the law school
of the University of Minnesota. In lftt)7,
four years later, he graduated as bache
lor of laws, and In 1806 took the dop-ee
FRED W. CARPENTER.
of LL. M., being admitted to practice
both in Minnesota and California. .
In 1898 Carpenter returned to Cali
fornia and was with a law firm in San
Francisco when there came to him
from the Philippines that message,
which started him upon his Interesting
career of the past decade. It was a lit
tle more than mere accident that
brought Taft and Carienter together.
The president of the Philippine com
mission was in need of a stenographer
for confidential work and could find no
one to bis personal liking In the islands.
A friend, fresh from America, to whom
he appealed In his dilemma, remember
ed the willing worker In the San Fran
cisco law office, and recommended Car
penter. The young man went out on
the next steamer and proved his metal
so speedily that in less than a year,
with the inauguration of Taft n s Gov
ernor of the Philippines, Carpenter was
maae his private secretary.
Dr. Schllck's apparatus for nrevonf.
ing ships from rolling at sea has lately
f" iresu proor or its ability. One of
his gyroscopes hns been fitted on board
the mail steamer Lochlel. Whii fhn
vessel was rolling lG'a degrees on each
side, through a total 'angle of 33 de
grees, the gyroscope was started, and
immediately decreased the total angle
of roll to 3 degrees. The apparatus Is
urn en electrically and requires but lit
tle attention.
Radio-active substances CnilKA tho nr..
nearance of colors in irinsa nv,,i
lain submitted to their influence. This
ract, taken in connection with the
knowledge that in places near the nitrate-mines
of the nrovl
gua, Chile, white glass becomes colored,
uas iea to tne discovery, In those dis
tricts, of spots In the soil which mani
fest a strong radio-activity.
Prof. R. de C. Ward.
points out that while the term temper
ate zone very well describes the climate
within the band of the earth's surface
which it Includes In the southern hem
isphere, it is often misleading when op
pi led to the corresponding band In tho
northern hemisphere. The most ex
treme climatic conditions
In its limits. In the southern hemis
phere the climate is more equable be
cause of the relatively vast extent of
the ocean surfaces there. Even In the
northern hemisphere fniiv hnic ,
- .. iuc orai
of the temperate zone Is covered bv
""'"i H,,u i oniy over the continen
tal portions that great extremes of heat
and cold occur.
So much has been said inri ...
the apparent unsettlnir nt int,0..oofi.
Ushed scientific axioms that particular
Interest attaches to n recent confirma
tion of a principle thn.
. ,,, "
tacitly ossumed as correct, although in
mo jram it nas ocen questioned. In
1900 II. Landolt believed thnf ....
shown a measurable loss of mass dur
ing certain chemical renetlnrm i,
was disposed to ascribe the loss to the '
amlaolnn mi I
iu""" i cicL-iruiiH. .mis year Lan
dolt has succeeded in trnoino-
parent loss of mass to minute changes
in the volume of the glass vessels em
ployed In the experiments. The general
cvui-iuhiou wnicn ne now draws from
all his experiments Is that no change
of mass can be detected as a result of
chemical reactions, and the law of con
servation of mass in this case is true
within the very small limits of experi
mental error.
A man who needs advice Is ant to
get the kind he doesn't want
BORTLNO r EARLS.
The Cam Vary Greatly la
hap aad OaaJKr.
lie.
When the pearls are taken from the
nsd fish they are first sorted accord
ing to size. This is done by passing
tliem through a set of ten small brass
sieves, called baskets, with meshes of
varying size. Pearls of the first class
Hint are perfect both in sphericity and
lu luster are called ant Those of th
second class, that to the average ob
server seem equally without flaw, are
aultarl, and most of the pearls we see
In the west and on general sale come
under this head. Of the third class,
call masauku, are those that are
somewhat Irregular In shape and a
trifle off In color, but that are valuable
for use in clusters and are largely
used by eastern artificers in mountings
of various sorts. Knral Is the donhi
of twinned pearl, which, when of good
luster and sufficiently freakish shape.
Is sometimes enormously valuable. In
this class the most wonderful speci
men on record is the great Southern
Cross pearl, which is in reality nine
pearls naturally grown together and
forming a perfect cross an Inch and a
half long. It was found off the coast
of Western Australia in 1874. Many
seed pearls and rejections, called va
dlvu, are generally ground Into cbu
nnm, and used as an Ingredient in a
favorite sweetmeat From China alsi
comes a heavy demand for seed pearls,
and in India bushels of them literally
arc used In the dccraini of Wo's and
sacred images and of weapons as well.
Everybody's.
Nervooaneaa In Children.
A nervous child Is greatly to be
pitied, not so much because of its pres
ent condition, although that Is distress
ing enough, as on account of what the
future has In store for It
A nervous child suffers, no doubt. It
Is peevish, easily frightened, restless.
Inattentive, Incapable of entering with
enjoyment Into the sports of its com
panions, soon tires of its games, and Is
often quarrelsome. But it is In adult
life that the real suffering comes. In
effective work, sleepless nights, racking
headaches, the formation of drug ha
bits, alcoholism, early physical break
down and even Insanity are the dan
gers to be dreaded for the future of
some fortunately not all children
with weak and unstable nervous sys
tems. There is always a cause for this
nervous condition in children, . and the
cause can often be removed if it can be
discovered. Heredity doubtless, plays
an Important part In many enses, but
not so often as is commonly believed,
and even when there Is an inherited
taint, other factors which perpetuate
or Increase the trouble almost alwavs
exist, and can often be overcome. A
careful examination of a nervous child
will usually bring to light some physi
cal defect, the curing of which will
free the nervous system from strain.
These physical defects may be any
where in the body, but are usually
found in one or more of three lecatlons-
the eyes, the throat and the bowels.
The eyes are most Intimately con
nected with the brain; indeed, they
may be said to be actually part of the
brain, and a defect of vision Inflicts
constant and Innumerable blows on the
brain which irritate It, and this irri
tation is transmitted to the entire
nervous system. The eyes of a nervous
child should be examined and specta
cles worn If called for.
"What a pity to put glasses on a
child!" Yes, but what a greater pity
to let a nervous child grow up Into
a nervous man.
A child who is a mouth-breather Is
almost sure to have enlarged tonsils or
adenoids. This condition interferes
with natural breathing, which prevents
the proper aeration of the blood ; .and
Impure blood cannot properiy nourish
the nerve-cells. Further, enlarged ton
sils or adenoids are often slightly In
flamed all the time, which causes the
absorption of septic products which
poison the whole system.
Finally, constipation Is a most po
tent Influence In the causation of all
sorts of nervous trouble. The treat
ment of this condition, not nt all un
common in children, In spite of their
activity, does not consist In an occa
sional dose of castor-oil. The root of
the evil must bo sought, and it muBt
be corrected by a careful regimen and
tho Inculcating of habits of regular
ity. How long after marriage does the
average wif begin to find fault with
her husband's table manners?
Cooks may come and cooks may go,
but the eating habit goes on forever.