Lincoln County leader., June 25, 1909, Image 2

LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
Rf COLLINS. Editor
f N HAYDEN, Manager
TOLEDO.,
OREGON
Everything will be made of cetueut
by and by.
Perhaps the only sure way to beat
a tax on Inheritances will be not to
die.
SaTe your old wastebaskets. A lit
tle trimming will convert them Into
fashionable spring hats.
Even classic Boston butts Into the
municipal corruption procession -with a
million-dollar graft case.
Mr. Blnns, the wireless hero, was
fittingly given a ride In a horseless
carriage when he reached home.
There Is a post office In Nebraska
named Tonic, but it Is not believed
that the postmaster took the office for
his health.
English women are In prison for at
tempting to see Premier Asqulth. Judg
ing by his pictures he is not much Of
a sight, either.
The Treasury Department Is to
change the pictures on the greenbacks.
Mnt of 111 wlK continue to have tile
same designs on them, however.
Princes George and Alexander of
fiervla have traded names, but the peo
ple of Servla are busy hoping each
may have retained his own character.
No matter how high prices of bricks
may be boosted by a combine of manu
facturerg, It Is not probable that the
practice of throwing them will be ren
dered less popular.
A Missouri Judge decides that when
a man merely does the chores around
the house he is not working. That
will hold some men for a while who
think they are models of industry.
Prominent citizens who are figuring
on taking luncheon with the new Presi
dent will learn with deep regret that
Mr. Taft takes only an apple for
lunch, and does not leave any core.
A well-to-do merchant of New Cas
tle, Pa., wrote a scathing letter to his
wife and she committed suicide. When
he heard of it, he collapsed and was
taken to a hospital. How much nicer
kindness and forbearing are I
What Is heroism, after all, but doing
In exceptional circumstances what
would be plain duty in ordinary cir
cumstances? It is the one who habitu
ally does the second that fills th bill
when given a chance at the first
A young woman In Jfew York eloped
with a gentleman and was greatly sur
prised to find that she had become (lie
stepmother of nine children .by that
act. Therefore she deserted her ntV
husband. Is there no romance pos
sible for a widower with children? .
WTille he was on IiIh way home from
a bull fight recently King Alfonso of
Spain stopped for the purpose of lay
lng the corner stone of a free soup
kitchen for th poor. He was prob
ably actuated by a desire that there
should be a fitting disposition of the
remains of the bulls killed in the ring.
Mother Shlpton's alleged prophecy,
o long regarded as the most wonder
ful prediction ever uttered until it
was proved, to have been a "fake,"
failed to provide for the automobile,
although she did foretell the steam lo
comotive. But the automoblllst's case
was anticipated many centuries before.
Bee Nahum, chapter 2, verse 4: "The
chariots shall rage In the streets ; they
shall Jostle one against another in the
broad ways; they shall seem like
torches; they shall run like the light
nings." "Passengers riding on the platforms
do so at their own risk," according to
the rule of almost all street .railways,
and the statement is by no means a
mere. form of words. A Boston lad
atepied from a car in order that two
women might alight. As he boarded
It again the car started suddenly, and
he was Injured. He sued the company
and got a verdict, but the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts has set It
aside on the ground that "by volunta
rily becoming a passenger on n car so
crowded that he could not get inside,
he took the risks incident to transpor
tation under these clrrumstanees." It
seems hnrd that an act of courtesy
should lead to misfortune, and that
this in turn should be met with a
"served you right;" but such warn
ings are meant to discourage not the
practice of courtesy, but the assump
tion of unnecessary risks.
President Taft, according to the
omniscient newspapers, Is helping Mrs.
Taft to make the Whit House a home.
Th Idea la that these good Americana
ara going to try to live In the White
House as they would if it were their
private property, to relegate business
to the executive office buildings, to di
minish the ceremonious trappings of
high position, and make their friends
feel "at home." There are difficulties
in the way. A public official, no mat
ter where he lives, must resign himself
to having his parlor turned into a conference-room.
One of the most retir
ing of distinguished American women
recently complained that ber house
had become a public institution. More
over, no American, shifting and rest
less as we are, ever feels quite at home
In a house hired, or borrowed, for ri
limited time. It lacks the extra bay
window that we put on ourselves, and
the "ellum-tree in the front yard that
father planted.
The British chancellor of the ex
chequer is said to be. working sixteen
hours a day to contrive ways and
means to meet an estimated deficit of
sixty-five million dollars in his coming
budget. Among the means under con
sideration are Increased license duties,
income tax and land tax. Doubtless
the new secretary of the American
treasury has a fellow feeling with Mr.
Lloyd-George, though he has no. re
sponsibility for raising revenue to meet
the deficiency. That is the business of
congress. On' both sides of the ocean
there seems to be more thought of
raising new revenue than of reducing
expenditures. Over there they attrib
ute the deficit to old age pensions,
which will require nearly forty-five
million dollars, though the responsibili
ty might well be shared with increased
army and navy requirements. Here
we might In the same spirit charge the
coming .deficit to .Civil War pensions,
which require more than the largest
estimate made of It. We cannot pre
tend, two generations after the end of
the war, that these are anything than
a special form of old age pensions.
Nevertheless we think that the Ameri
can people would disband the army
and hang up the navy before they
would allow the pension list to be
touched. Whether we admit it or not,
every form of public pensions or other
care for the old or poor or helpless is
a rcognition of the obligation of mod
ern civilization to take charge pf the poor
it makes. Orphanages and homes for
the aged and hospitals as well as alms
houses express the sense of this obli
gation on the part of private founders
as well as the state. The Industrial
civilization by which alone Increasing
millions can be maintained on the
earth's surface produces inevitably ex
tremes of riches, and poverty. Priva
tion and suffering intolerant to mod
ern humanity can be prevented only by
some form of distribution of the excess
among the deficient. They who cry
out most loudly against the heresies of
Socialism recognize this necessity Id
other ways.
THE "BELL" OF 1909.
-Louisville Times.
A Burdened Man.
A certain small boy In grade number
six was rapidly assuming manly ways.
!Not long ago, says a writer in the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, there was to
be an entertainment at bis school.
Songs, recitations and a crab-hair were
the principal features. The small boy
waxed eloquent of the comlne elorles
of this show, and more especially of
the part he was to take.
On the morning of the entertainment
his mother suggested that he should
take his little sister, about four vears
old, with him. He hung his head.
"Don't you want to take her?" his
mother asked.
"No, I don't," he answered.
"Why not?"
' 'Cause there ain't none of the other
fellers has to bring their children,"
was the reply.
. , Varying- Impreaalona.
"The days are growing longer," said
the man who keeps a lookout for the
first robin.
"I don't notice any difference," said
Slrius Barker; "they seeni,-ns usual, to
be getting longer if you count from
pne pay day to the next, and shorter
If you figure the time between rent
days." Washington Star.
If you want to be of assistance to a
friend In trouble, do not say, "I'm
sorry." That will not help him any,
but it may bore him.
The family with a 18-year-old boy
in the house has no earthly use for a
thirty-alx volume encyclopedia.
Im joiiiiiiiiiN'giiiM iiiiA
NOTED PERSONS TAKEN
Death Has a Recent Harvest of
Four People of International
Prominence.
EACH WAS GREAT IN HIS LINE
Modjeska, Crawford, Hitchcock and
Swinburne Had Carved Their
.Names in Halls of Fame.
An actress, a statesman, a novelist
and a poet each standing in the fore
most ranks of those in his particular
line, have been called from the vari
ous scenes of their brilliant earthly
careers within a short period recently.
Each was known and admired interna
tionally and their deaths, all within
three days, deprive the world of fur
ther great works which it had every
right to expect from such fruitful lives.
A Great Tragedienne.
The death of Helena Modjeska closes
the career of one of the most remark
able women ever seen on an American
stage. As a tragedienne none of her
MME. MODJESKA.
contemporaries was her superior, and
but few If any her equal. Her life
was a romantic one. She was first mar
ried to Gustav Modzejewskl, by whom
she had one son, Ralph. Her second
marriage was with Count Bozenta in
1808. The count was exiled from Po
land, in 1870, for his political writings
and his wife was forbidden to appear
on the Polish stagq The couple came
to this country and were naturalized,
the countess taking as her stage name
a modified form of the name of her
first husband. Her debut in this coun
try was made in San Francisco in
1S77.
In happy contradiction ot the fate
of many great artists she did not die
poor. She earned during her stage ca
reer a million dollars, but gave to char
ity with an open hand. She founded
an industrial school for girls in Cra
cow, Poland, and her generosity ac
counted for the disposal of the larger
part of her earnings. She left an es
tate amounting to about $120,000.
In spite of the decree of exile pro
nounced against her husband, and de
spite the decree, issued after she had
delivered an address at the World's
Fair in Chicago on Kussinn-Pollsh pol
itics, barring her from all Russian pos
sessions, It la her husband's intention
to take the body back to her native
town of Cracow for burial.
An American Slaluman.
The death of Ethan Allen Hitchcock,
Secretary of the Interior under. Presi
dents McKInley and Roosevelt, re
moved a statesman whose record fdr
honesty and whose high sense of duty
were recognized by his country. Mr.
Hitchcock was the grandson of General
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ETHAN AI.LEN HITCHCOCK.
Ethan Allen of the Revolution. His
death came April 9 at the age of 74.
In 1807 he was appointed by President
McKInley as envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Russia
and the following year the post was
raised to an embassy. In 1898 he was
called home to become Secretary of the
Interior, a place which he kept under
Pip?
President Roosevelt He served trotil
March i, 1907, when he resigned to
return to private life.
Secretary Hitchcock was a foe to
land frauds and the most prominent of
his reforms was the determined effort
"fc;. .-x... " 3r 'S'g
F. MARION CRAWFORD.
to put an end to such frauds on the
Federal domain. He prosecuted many
wealthy land grabbers nmong whom
were men well known in public life and
private business.
A Flmoni Novelist.
The great American novelist, F.
Muiluii Cittrtfui J, outs of the luost pro
lific our country has produced, breathed
his last) at his home at Sorrento, on
the Bay of Naples, the evening of the
same day as Mr. Hitchcock. Mr. Craw
ford had a training that gave him not
Only the secrets of language and liter
ature, but nn Intimate knowledge .of
many peoples and of many lands. lbs
father was Thomas Crawford, the
noted sculptor whose "Liberty" is on
top of the Capitol at Washington. Ills
mother was a sister of Julia Ward
Howe and of Sam Ward, the author.
Young Crawford spent much of his
life in Italy, where he was born, re
turning time and again after his wan
derings over the earth, and there he
finally married and made his home.
He attended St Paul's at Concord, N.
H., and later entered Trinity College.
Cambridge, still later going to Heidel
berg. He made a deep study of many
languages through his travels.
Though he spent most of his years
after marriage In Italy, he made sev
eral visits to this country. His chief
recreation was yachting and he held a
ALGERNON CHABLES SWINBURNE.
professional master's certificate from
the Association of American Ship Mas
ters and from the United States Marine
Board. He wrote an astounding num
ber of novels, having produced one
every year from the time he wrote
the first in 1881, and sometimes
three in twelve months. He wrote only
one play, which was produced by
Sarah Bernhardt in Paris.
Enarllah Man of Lettera.
England's great poet and essayist
Algernon Charles Swinburne, died at
the age of 72, at his home in Putney.
One of the greatest poets of the VTS
torian period, all England expected
Tennyson's mantle of poet laureate to
fall upon his shoulders. But Swinburne
was strong in hts likes and dislikes and
some of his works were tinged with his
animosity against kings and priests.
He created a style . of his own and
cared little for criticism. He was early
inspired by Shakespeare and later be
came a devout worshiper of Browning.
Upon leaving Oxford he spent some
time In travel. He contributed a wealth
of impassioned poetry to the English
language and in addition was a keen
critic. Ills strong personality has left
an indelible mark upon literature.
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Cruel Suspicion.
"BUgglns is a great reader. He in
variably buys a newspaper before get
ting on a street car."
"I have noticed the paper," answer
ed Miss Cayenne. "But I am not so
sure he reads It Maybe he holds it up
because he's too polite to see a lady
standing." Washington Star.
Don't kick a man to-day because he
is down. You may be down to-morrow.
111 IM
Good Hard Soap.
Put five pounds of grease over ths
fire and. as it melts stir in a quarter
of a pound of borax. When this Is dls-
1 ' solved and the grease Is a little more
i than lukewarm, turn into the kettle-
slowly a can of patent potash, dis
solved in a quart and a pint of salt
water. Stir steadily until all the In
gredients are thoroughly incorporated,
and you have a smooth, thick paste.
Turn into molds, and when firm thes
should be cut into cakes.
Supper Salad.
Mix one and one-half cupfuls of cold
cooked chicken, cut In cubes; one cu
cumber, pared and cut in cubes; one
cupful of chopped English walnut
meats, one-half cupful of French peas
and a cupful of celery cut In small
pieces, thoroughly chilled In ice water.
Moisten with mayonnaise dressing and
garnish with strips of canned red pep
per arranged ribbon fashion, audcelery
tlps. Flannel Cakea.
One pint of sour milk, three tea--spoonfuls
of melted lard, three egga
well beaten, one teaspoenful of soda,
flour to make a good batter. Mix well,
beating the whites and yolks of the
eggs separately, and adding the stiff
ened whites last of all. Fold in light
ly and quickly, then bake the batter
on a griddle as you would other pan.
rakes. They are delicious.
Antae Seed Cooklea.
Into two cups of granulated sugar
stir five eggs, put over the fire and
beat steadily until the mixture Is luke
warm, then take from the range and
beat until cool. Add enough flour to
make a batter that can be poured with
out running, add anise seed to taste.
Put by the teaspoonful on tins and set
aside overnight In the morning bake
in a slow oven.
EsraT Teat.
Take a flat-bottomed dlshpan, put at
least four Inches of water in it and
drop the egg in the water. If fresh it
will lie perfectly level ; if it rises at the
thick end In the least It is not fresh.
The older the egg the more it rises at
the thick end. If it should leave the
botton and swim It is not fit for any
thing.
Batter Scotch.
Into a pound of brown sugar stir a
cup of water and two tablespoonfuls of
vinegar. Cook steadily for. ten min
utes, then stir in four tablespoonfuls.
of butter and cook until a little drop
pod into cold water hardens at once.
Pour into buttered tins, and as it cools
nark off Into squares.
Nnt Bread.
Two cups of milk, one-half cup of
sugar, four cups of flour, one cun of
broken nut meats, four teaspoonfuls of
baking powder, one teaspoonful of salt,
two beaten eggs. Put into greased pans
and set aside for twenty minutes, then
bake for thirty minutes in a moderate
"ven.
Spnnlah Stew.
Two pounds of beef ribs, one pint ot
canned tomatoes, one large onion, one
red pepper, six cloves. Cover with a
quart of water and simmer very slowly
ror two or three hours. Salt to taste
and thicken the gravy with browned
lour Just before serving.
Lamb Chop.
A remedy for woolly taste of lamb
chops. Rub chop thorouchlv with a
'preparation of lemon Juice and butter
in the proportion of one teaspoonful of
butter to " two of lemon Juice. Broil
them ; they are delicious.
Staffed Tenderloin.
Procure a norb loin moat- rv
remove the tenderloin, but slit It and
stuff with dry dressing made of stale
srunibs highly seasoned with salt pep-
yci iuiu BHBe. uoiisi in usual manner
and serve with potatoes, brown araw
and apple sauce.
Short SoKareatlona.
After cleaning Ivory expose it to the
sun. mis assists in bleaching It
Clean mahogany with cold drawn
linseed oil and polish with clean cloths.
Marble should be washed with am
monia and water rather than with
soap and water.
A great many blemishes on wall pa
per may be removed with a - rubber
on a lead pencil. N
Try a little lemon and salt mixed
the next time a price mark stinko t.
the bottom of china dishes or bric-a-
Drac. ,
Kerosene will polish Einc, if it Is
rubbed on with a soft cloth until clean,
and then washing the sine in boiling
water.