LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
R C COLLINS, Editor
r N HAYDEN. Manager
TOLEDO..
.OREGON
Now U the time to subscribe for the
Commoner and the Outlook.
Senator Tillman Is accused, also, of
overworking. his forking privilege.
Learn a lesson In modesty by study
ing the character of John It. Blnns,
the young Marconi hero.
Sousa announces that ragtime music
Is dead. If so It has left a very active
ghost to continue the disturbance.
No doubt, an Inventor will be along
some day with a machine that will
give us our cold waves steam heated.
A Brooklyn girl married a Chinaman
to spite her parents, which Is one phase
of the yellow peril never thought of
before.
We often wonder how President Lin
coin found time to free the slaves
when he was so busy thinking up new
stories.
Young Mr. Rockefeller Is suffering
from insomnia. Perhaps It keeps him
awake to hear It pouring Into father's
cuffcia.
The doctors having discovered a man
who has two hearts, the question has
been raised whether he Is now entitled
to two wives.
Aunt Carrie Nation smashed a Lon
don tobacconist's window nnd was let
off with a small fine. Aunt Carrie has
bard work making a martyr of herself,
Another Ingenious man has sprung
Into fame by Inventing an egg beater
which can also be used as an Ice cream
freezer and a churn. Wonderful -age,
is this.
If Roosevelt becomes the head of the
World's conservation congress, the
problem of what to do with our ex
Presidents will be very satisfactorily
solved. '
This country has made such progress
fn the way of furnishing brick and stuc
co houses that we shall probably never
have another President who was born
n a log cabin.
A Boston woman, we are told, has
"embraced twenty-three different re
ligions." It may be that up to the
present time she has not found any
that reciprocated.
In Oregon the ten-Inch hat pin is to
be the limit, but as few mashers will
care to have even ten inches of pin
JablKHl Into their anatomy, the limit
will doubtless be a plenty.
The Rev. Mr. Cnnnlchael made it
easy for the medical fraternity to dis
cover that he was Insane. Had his
case been left to expert witnesses there
would always have remained a doubt.
A scientist says the day Is coming
When It will be possible to foretell
earthquakes. Good. That will give us
a chance to make use of our airship
and get off the earth till the trouble h
ver.
Announcement Is made that women
of fashion ore about to abolish the rat,
which they have been wearing on theh1
heads, but most of the married men
would be more deeply Interested If they
were to hear that women were to be
gin wearing waists that buttoned In
front.
Among recently elected members to
Phi Beta Kappa, the society of picked
scholars. Is a Harvard student named
Tien Tin Chan of Tientsin, China. Two
Chinese, Mr. Wed and Mr. Chen, grad
uated recently from West Point, where
then have been, In a sense, guests of
the I'nlted States. The students who
are to come to America as benefi
ciaries of the returned "Boxer Indem
nity" fund will find that their country
men have set them a high standard In
American colleges.
The South African confederation
convention hns been considering the se
lection of three capital cities to satisfy
the local pride of the colonies en
tering Into the new union. Cape
Town has been agreed upon for the
!cat of .Parliament, Pretorln for the
administrative capital, and Bloemfon
teln as the headquarters of the 1udl-
clary. It Is nearly a thousand mill's
from Capo Town to Pretoria, and
Uloemronieln Is between the two
The plan of a divided capital for unl
ted colonies worked well In Rhode Isl
and until lfMK); but that S'ate coven
an area of only fifty by thlrty-flvi
miles. U might work differently on r
continental scale.
Plans are making in Indiana for the
purchase of the house built by William
Henry IlarrlBon at Ylncennes, when he
was Governor of the old territory. It
is of brtck, two stories high and stands
on the bank of the Wabash river. There
Is an underground passage from the
house to the river, built to provide a
way of escape in case of attack by In
dians. The original American Harrison
homestead was In Virginia, where the
first President Harrison was born. His
father was Benjamin Harrison, one of
the signers of the Declaration of Inde
pendence, and twice Governor of his
State. John Scott Harrison, the son
of Presldeut Harrison, was a member
of Congress two terms, and his son
Benjamin was the twenty-third Presi
dent, and the second of the family to
hold the office. There is a strong sen
timent in favor of preserving the Yin
cennes residence as a memorial to one
of the most notable American families,
Doctors disagree about a good man..
things, but they have no differences re
secting the immediate causes of severe
colds which develop into pneumonia.
They agree that colds are, paradoxical
ly enough, due in must cases to heat.
'fhe patient becomes overheated and
then goes Into the open air, sits in a
draft or otherwise cools off too rapid
ly, and the mischief is done. The des
ignation "cold" is really a misnomer.
A cold is not a cold, but a fever which
results from congestion, more or less
general, of the mucous membrane.
When the congestion is confined to the
nasal passages and the upper throat It
is called "a cold In the head." When
it pets farther down It becomes a
"bronchial cold" and when it reaches
the pulmonary tract it is "a cold on
the lungs," but, whatever the popular
designations of these colds, they orig
inate. In nine cases out of ten. In sud
den alternation of heat and cold. Some
people declare that they "take cold"
only when they are bilious, and that
may be true, but that Is only another
way of saying that the bilious subject
Is In a physical and mental condltfon
where his resisting powers are wenk.
He succumbs to changes of tempera
ture which would do him no barm if he
were in normal condition. He takes
cold, however, not through his liver, but
through his pores. People who are
said to be "subject to colds" are in
the same category. They are no more
subject to colds than they are to other
diseases. Their resisting power is
weak and if they did not have colds
they would be suffering from some oth-
er ailment. It would be a mistake,
however, to assume that even the most
rugged constitution Is proof against
"catching cold" unless care and vigi
lance are exercised.. The somber rec
ords of the pneumonia scourge show
how the strongest succumh like wenk-
lings once the dlsense obtains a foot
hold. The man who imagines that his
health and strength are so perfect that
he can defy ordinary precautions Is the
most favorable subject for a cold that
is likely to end his life. Eternal vigi
lance Is the price of health as well as
or liberty. Overheated dwell intrs nni
offices are the breeding nlnces of "imrt
colds" and "bad colds" are forerunners
or our most dangerous troubles.
METHODICAL BURGLARS, $
There had been a number of bur
glaries in n certain, suburban neighbor
hood, and the conversation at a small
whist party turned naturally enough
on burglars In general and their local
performances in particular. Everybody
had expressed an opinion except a
quiet, elderly gentleman, who was ap
parently more interested in his cards
than In criminology. But he was not
to be let off so easily.
"Doesn't it make you nervous,'
somebody asked him, "to think that
every night when you go to bed that
you may be burglarized before morn
ing?" "Oh, we don't mind them," said tue
elderly gentleman, cheerfully, with a
glance across the room at his wife.
"We're too well used to them, aren't
me, Mary?"
"John," said his wife, warulngly,
don't be silly."
"Silly !" echoed he, nnd turned to the
others. "Now that's her modesty.
Those burglars have been trying to go
through our house every night for two
weeks. Always get In through the dining-room
window, too. But Mary hears
them. Yes, sir, no sooner do they get
through the window than Mary hears
'em and wakes me up. Fortunately for
us, Mary Is a very light sleeper."
"But It must be awful to wake up
like that!" exclaimed one of the listed
era.
"Rather disturbing the first night,"
continued the speaker. "But not so
bad after one gets used to it. All 1
have to do, you know, Is to get tin and
lock the bedroom door, an.d then the
burglars go right back out of the dirt-lng-room
window,
"Yery methodical they are, too," add
ed the elderly gentleman, thoughtfully,
"for they always lock the window af i.er
them."
At what period in life do warts be
gin to grow on people's faces? We
never saw a young woman with a wart
on her face.
SUB!
U FT U
"Well, I congratulate'you," said the
lawyer to his client, as they waited
In the corridor for the elevator. "Here
you are without a stain or grease spot
on your character. You can hold up
your head once more and look your
fellow man in the eye nud hit him
In the eye if you want to. You have
passed through the ordeal unscathed.
The acid test of question nnd cross
question has Indisputably shown the
true gold of your character. Yes, in
deed, you certainly are to be congrat
ulated." "That's nil right about that," said
the client, morosely, "but if there's
any gold in my character there ain't
none anywheres else about me. Y'ou
took care of that I'm busted. I
guess I'll have to touch you for a lit
tle. You did soak It to me good and
hard."
"I merely mentioned what my fee
would be for undertaking your case,"
said the lawyer. "You did the rest.
Do you think I . charged you too
much?"
"I think about half what I paid you
would have been plenty." replied the
client, frankly. "It wasn't much of a
case. There wasn't uotbiu' to it. Say,
it was a pipe."
"It wns, eh?"
"Sure. I'd have bet my kit o' tools
against your law llberry that the ver
dlck would be 'not guilty' afore that
jury went out."
"How much do you suppose my li
brary is worth?" asked the lawyer.
"Do you- think that you'd be giving
odds?"
"I know I would," said the client.
"It wouldn't be worth nothln to me
an' I wouldn't know where to sell It.
No, I wouldn't have no use for your
books an' I do know how to use my
tools. If I do say It."
"That's what the police seemed to
think." observed the lawyer.
"The muts!" growled the client. "If
I'd have known!"
"If you'd have known what?"
"If I'd have known what they was
goln' to testify to. Why, say! There
wasn't nothln' against me. Not a
thing. Anybody could see that they
was just tryln' to put up a lob on a
innercent man."
"Is that your ground for asking a
rebnte?"
"I oughtn't to have to ask It." said
the client. "I ain't eoiu' to. either
I Just leave it to you whether you
oughtn't to hand me half of what I
give you. Why. them fellows didn't
know what they w;as talkln' about.
Just as soon as you began to ask 'em
questions they got all tangled up.
They wasn't dead sure of nothln'.
They wouldn't have swore to their
owrf names."
"They were rather confused when I
got through with them, weren't they?"
said the lawyer, with a crntlfled
smile.
"As for that nrosecntln' nttnrno-p.
he didn't know his business, either,"
urged the client. "He stnrted in to
wipe up the earth with us. I thought
I was in for ten years anyway. I
don't mind sayin' that he had me
bluffed. But he was easy. Easy! It
was a' shame the way you handled
him. He hadn't got no business brlne-
lu' in the kind of everdence he did, nor
yet In askln'. the questions he did."
"I think I pointed that out to the
court"
"Course you did. That was your
business. An' the ludire seen it the
way you did, too. I don't know noth
ln about law, but I knew you wns in
the right about It. It wns a walka-
way. He was dead wrong all the time.
ay, i ve a notion to sue 'em for dam-
nges and false Imprisonment. I be
lieve I could make it stick."
"I think If I were you I'd leave
well enough alone," advised the law
yer. I m sorry that I can't see my
way to return vou any nart of mv fee.
Next time perhaps you had better just
defend yourself If It's an easy case
like this one.
"Not me," said the client, "I ain't
takln' no more chances than I have
to in the way of business. Could I
borrow $10 and pay it back the first
money I earn?" '
"I'd have to wait too long." '
"The first money I get, then?"
"On thnt understanding I mleht
spare you $5," said the lawyer. Chi
cago Daily News.
CHINA'S WHISTLING PIGEONS.
Musical Instruments Attached to
Ta.ll of Flying- Blrda. 1
One of the most curious expressions
of emotional life Is the application of
whistles to a flock of pigeons.' These
whistles, very light, weighing but a
few drams, are attached to the talis
of young pigeons soon after their birth
by means of fine copper wire, so that
when the birds fly the wind blowing
through the whistles sets thera vibrat
ing and thus produces an open air con
cert, for the instruments In one and
the same flpek are tuned differently.
On a serene day In Tekln, where these
instruments are manufactured with
great cleverness and ingenuity, it is
possible to enjoy this aerial music
while sitting in one's room, says the
Scientific American.
There" are two distinct types of whis
tles those consisting of bamboo tubes
placed side by side, and a tyie based
on the principle of tubes attached to a
gourd body or wind chest. They are
lacquered in yellow, brown, red and
black, to protect the material from the
destructive influences of the atmos
phere. The tube whistles have two,
three or five tuln's. In some specimens
the five tubes are made of oxhorn in
stead of bamboo.
The gourd whistles are furnished
with a mouthpiece and small apertures
to the number of two, three, six, ten
and even thirteen. Certain among
thein have, besides, n number of bam
boo tubes, some on tho principal
mouthpiece, some arranged around it.
These varieties are distinguished by
different names. Thus a whistle with
one mouthpiece and ten tubes is called
"the eleven eyed one."
The explanation of the practice of
this quaint custom which the Chinese
offer Is not very satisfactory. Accord
ing to them these whistles are Intended
to keep the flock together nnd to pro
tect the pigeons from attacks ojj birds
of prey. There seems, however, little
reason to believe that n hungry hawk
could be induced by this Innocent mu
sic to keep aloof from satisfying his
appetite, and this doubtless savors of
an afterthought which came up long
after the introduction of this usage
through the attempt to give a rational
and practical Interpretation of some
thing that has no rational origin what
ever, for It Is not the pigeon that prof
Its from this practice, but merely the
human ear, which feasts on the wind
blown tubes and derives aesthetic
pleasure from this music.
The Nose.
The nose, the most conspicuous fea
ture of the human face, has always
been regarded with great Interest from
an esthetic point of view, but it is
within a comparatively recent period
that Its Importance In the matter of
health has been recognized.
Its external configuration goes far to
make or mar beauty of feature, and
considered from the point of view ol
health, Its internnl conformation is of
even more significance.
The inside of the nose is divided In
to two compartments by a thin plate of
bone and cartilage, called the septum.
The outer wall of each of these cavities
has three projecting ledges, formed of
curved plates of bone covered with a
loose membrane containing a great
number of blood-vessels. Opening Into
the nasal cavity on each side are sev
eral hollow spaces In the bones of the
face, all lined with mucous membrane
and containing air.
The nerves of smell are located In
the mucous membrane which lines the
nostiiils, and when inflammation of
the membrane occurs, as In a cold In
the head, this sense Is more or less de
stroyed for the time being.
The most Important function of the
nose is that of a breathing organ. The
curved plates of bone serve to Increase
the surface covered with mucous mem
brane, so thnt the air in passing over
It is warmed and moistened, and so
rendered fit to enter the bronchial
tubes and lungs. It is also filtered and
freed from dust aud from the many
dlsense-germs which It carries. The
dust and microbes are caught on the
moist surface, and are carried back to
the entrance 'of the nostrils in a cur
rent caused by the constant downward
movement of microscopic halr-Hke pro
jections on the mucous membrane. '
This explains In part the evils that
result from mouth-breathing, for then
the air Is neither warmed nor puri
fied, and on entering the bronchial
tubes It causes congestion. This in
turn lessens the resisting power, which
all mucous membranes possess, against
the action of disease-germs.
Catarrhal inflammation, diphtheria,
tuberculosis, and other respiratory dis
eases are much more likely to attack
those who, through habit or necessity,
breathe largely through the mouth.
Obstruction of one nostril, such as
occurs when the septum projects to
one side or when there are tumors,
called polypi, or other swellings of the
mleous membrane, puts too much work
on the free nostril. Its membrane be
comes congested, and catarrh results.
This obstruction may be only tempo
rary and may right Itself, but .when It
is permanent it is necessary to remove
It by operation as a measure of prota
tion to the general healtu.
Meat Pie.
Take your cold meat left overs and .
put through a chopper with an onion
or celery, wliUli you prefer. Put the
mixture In a saucepan with -a little
water or gravy, and salt and pepper to
taste. Muke a rich puff paste, with
which line a dish. Put in the hash,
leaving part of the gravy. When ready
to serve, cut a round piece out of cen
ter of cover, into which pour the re
maining gravy and replace tbe piece.
Economical Doughnuts.
Beat an egg very light with a cup of
sugar, add a cup of milk, not stirring
this in, then put In quickly half a
grated nutmeg, a half-teaspoonful of
salt, and, three teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, sifted with enough flour to
make a dough that can be rolled out.
Boll In deep fat to which a little salt
has been added. This last precaution,
will keep the doughnuts froih absorb
ing the grease.
Tcel suine potatoes and grate th"tri
Into a basin of water; let the pulp
remain in the water for a couple of
hours; drain It off and mix with it
half Its weight of flour, season with
pepper, salt and chopied onions. If
not moist enough add a little water.
Roll into dumplings the size of a large
apple, sprinkle them well with flour,,
and throw them Into boiling water.
When they rise to the top they .will
be boiled enough.
Date Dessert.
Beat the yolks of four eggs, add
eight tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar,
stew one-half pound of dates until ten
der, add a little lemon extract, nnd add
this to tile first mixture. Cut and fold
in the white of four eggs, well beaten,
with a sprinkling of orange peels, bake
in a slow oven and serve with vanlla
sauce. Elizabeth Gregg, Columbia, Ta.
Orange Snowballs.
Boll one cup of rice fifteen minutes
In salted water, drain and let cool.
Remove the peel from five seedless
oranges, spread the rice on dumpling
cloths, roll each orange in sugar, place
on the rice, tie and boll the balls for
an hour: turn them carefully on a
dish, sprinkle with sugar. Serve with
sweetened cream.
linked Apples.
Baked apples, with dates, Is a nutri
tive combination. Large, solid npplea
nre cored and filled with washed and
stoned dates, sprinkled with powdered
sugar, basted with lemon juice, butter
and hot water and baked till soft in a
moderate oven. Apples are good baked
In like manner with figs dr stewed
orunes.
Broiled Oysters.
Select large, fat oysters for broiling,
free them from shells, drain and dry
between a towel. Dip In melted but
ter, then in fine cracker crumbs, sea- '
soned with salt and paprika. Have a
fine wire gridiron and broil over a
quick fire till the Juice flows, being
careful not to let them burn. Serve
at once.
Mulled Cider.
Heat the eider to the boiling point,
sweeten to taste, thicken with flour to
the consistency of cream, beating out
all the lumps. To make this properly
moisten the flour with a little milk.
Put over the fire again, bring to the
boiling point and remove and serve.
Sliced Baked Apples. ,
Core, but do not pare, and cut In
thin slices. Put a layer in the baking
dish and sprinkle with sugar, then an
other layer of apples, etc., and have
last a layer of sugar. Cover the pan
and bake ten minutes. Then remove
the cover and bake ten minutes longer
Serve, with meat as a compote. -
Sour Cream Biscuit.
Into one pint of sour cream stir one
teaspoonful of soda which has been dis
solved In two tablespoonfuls of warm
water, add the well beaten white of one
egg and one-half teaspoonful of salt.
When the cream foams up ndd enough
sifted flour to make ' a soft dough.
Roll, cut out and bake in a quick oven,
Creamed Walnnts.
Cook two cupfuls of sugar and one
half cupful of vvnter together until the
syrup thrends. Add a teaspoonful of
vanilla, take from the range nnd beat
until thick and creamy. Make small
balls of the candy and press half a
walnut meat Into each side. Drop on
o a plate of granulated sugar.
Cucumber Pickles.
One gallon vinegar, one cup dry mus
tard, one cup sugar, one-half cup salt,
as many encumbers as the vinegar will
cover. Put in a stone crock or glass
Jan.