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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1909)
LINCOLN COUHTY LEADER R E COLLINS, Editor r N HAYDCN, Manacar TOLEDO OREGON We hope Paderewskl saved some 01 the large fees ,be got for pounding the piano. Publicity cures many evils, but the vll doer finds it exceedingly unpleas ant medicine to take. They came back from the ride with the octopus outside and the smile on the face of Mr. Rockefeller. As an occupant of the map of the world, Mombasa no longer finds It nec essary to cough to attract attention. It will not be so very difficult for this nation to sit around until 1915 waiting for the completion of the Pan ama canal. Carrie Nation has retired. And it Is noticed that she has a good farm and a bank account. Carrie's smash was not financial. . Some doctors think all tonsils are unnecessary and should be removed. Not even the civil service rules should protect a tonsil, in their opinion. A New Jersey cat has adopted a brood of chicken'?. Mt hnv hpen reading Mr. Rockefeller's essays on philanthropy and business foresight. It seems that Aunt Carrie Nation has saved enough money to buy a good farm. "I cannot tell a lie," we can imagine Aunt Carrie saying: "I did It with my little hatchet." The Young Turks, according to ca ble reports, are doing good execution. They are that, and without waiting for trials, appeals, affidavits and con tinuances, so familiar In America. A dispatch from Salonlki declares that Abdul Hamld is likely to die of heart disease. Well, well, and only a few days ago It was predicted he would die of an operation on the neck! Make a memorandum In your note book that Boston will celebrate In 1920, with a world's fair, the three hundredth anniversary of the land ing of the pilgrim fathers, and do not fall to attend it Once again we are assured by cable that the husband of Queen Wllhelmina Is "ridiculously fond of her." Poor man! That Is the only way he has of getting into the papers, and this time the dispatches do not even giv,e his name. The trouble with psychotheraphy in churches, according to the Rev. Dr. Lelghton Parks, Is that It identifies health with salvation. On the other hand, it might be remarked that the trouble with the churches where psy chotherapy is anathema is that they take too little heed of the welfare and happiness of their members this side the grave. Health and salvation are not necessarily inconsistent. Kidnaping stirs the emotions of the world more than any other crime. One reason Is that it Is happily infre quent. When a case like that in Penn. sylvanla comes before newspaper read ers, It is always accompanied by the story of Charley Ross. That story is remembered because the boy was not found, and therein it differs from most other true stories of kidnaping. American parents have less to fear from kidnapers than from firecrack ers or measles, or a hundred other dangers which do not keep us awake at night. It is the infrequency, not the nature, of the crime that renders It comparatively insignificant. It can be more horrible than murder, and those who suffer receive universal sympathy. It begins to look as If some of the magnates who have acquired the con trol of most of our theatrical affairs during the last ten or twenty years were becoming conscious of the weak points in their syndicate system and seeking to escape threatened disaster by a reversion, In part at least, to older and sounder methods. Of two facts, patent to all observers, they, as shrewd business men of their kind, must be fully aware. They must know that all actors and actresses of the first rank In this country have practi cally disappeared without leaving any successors to take their places, and that there is no certain source to which they can look for capable re cruits. Such recruits must be found, or nothing can stop that progressive degeneration of the theater which has already reduced it almost to the level of the music hall. It may be that schoolboys of Amer ica will remember Willie Whltla as an awful example of what may hap pen to them when the kidnapers come, tut It Is more probable that they will remember him as the Innocent eaun of a movement that is making tru ancy, or even a Justifiable leave ol absence from school, hard to win. Just as the legislatures are- every where hastening to make kidnaping punishable by death, or life imprison ment at the least, so the school boards all over the land are passing a regu latlon forbidding teachers to let chil dren go hom on written or verbal word from the parents without first submitting the request to the school principal and having its genuineness verified by direct appeal to the par ents. The Chicago school board hai passed such a rule for its elementary schools, and no doubt the principals and teachers will be glad to enforce it while all truant officers will be glad that they do enforce it. Whatever the main motive is which leads to such unanimous and speedy adoption ol this rule, It is well Justified for the protection it gives the children against kidnapers, even without con slderlng any further reasons. After such a case as that of the Whitla boy exceptional precautions should be taken till the memory of the crime has died out, In addition to the very careful precautions which ought to be taken at all times against such crimes The forestry service Is dealing with a vast domain as the property in com mon of the people and is continually working up schemes for the general good. Of three circulars which it sent out recently the longest is a descrip tion of the policy that is pursued to ward stockmen. There is a large de mand for grazing privileges on the national forests, and the policy of the government is to make a fair distribu tion of permits. How it is carried out is Illustrated by a Wyoming case. Six years ago a single sheep owner wae grazing 60,000 head of Bheep or 47 per cent of the total number on the forest. As new settlers entered the country they derived the benefit of a pro rata system, and to-day the num ber of Individuals and firms grazing stock has largely increased and the percentage of sheep belonging to the man referred to has been reduced from 47 to 4. "One of the basic prin ciples in handling grazing matters on the national forests Is that it Is bet ter to help a Bmall man make a living than a big man a profit." Another bulletin reveals the service working in co-operation with the schools in teaching forestry and related subjects, and It Is now engaged on model courses of study for graded and high schools. The third bulletin tells of experiments that are to be made by the service , in introducing eastern hard woods into California. Small patches of chestnut, hickory, bass wood, red oak and yellow poplar trees will be planted near the forest rang ers' cabins, "and if these do well larger plantations on a commercial scale will soon be established on larger areas." Can anyone doubt the value of this care and activity to the country? The pity is that the begin ning was not made many years ago. For the lessons in conservation were much (needed, and after such an ex perience as we have had they should certainly be taken to heart now. Theories of government have nothing to do with the case, though there is a disposition In some quarters to com plain of a present tendency toward paternalism. What we are striving for is an effective method of saving the timber and encouraging Its growth, and the effective method will be adopted, no matter what the "Ism" may be. The country Is to be con gratulated on the Intelligence and de votion that are being shown in the forestry service and on the good work it is accomplishing as It faces one problem after another. A I'nlqne Spanish Prlaon. In one of the Basque provinces of Spain there is a prison which opens the doors every morning, and the pris oners go into town for housework, gar dening, or some trade. Some act as commissioners. In the evening they quietly return at the appointed time to the prison, and the Jailer most .care fully identifies them before withdraw ing the bolts for their admission. Once a prisoner ventured to present himself at the gates of the prison in a state of inebriety, and the Jailer refused to admit him. "To punish you," he said, "you will to night sleep out of doors." And the prisoner, It Is recorded, In Bplte of tears and entreaties, was con. demned to pass the night otitslde. Note, The 1 note Is not the smallest Is sued by the Bank of England. By mis take a note of the value of one penny was made and Issued in 1828. It wsb in circulation for many years, a source of annoyance to the cashiers in mak ing up their accounts. At length the holder of it brought it to the bank, and after considerable argument per suaded the authorities to give him 5 for It Her Gucm, The Fat One "Don't you think travel broadens one? The Thin One Oh, yes. You've been on a long Journey, haven't you? Yonkers Statesman. WOMEN AS GAMBLERS. III(b Society Damee Losing Their Interest la Bridge Whlat. It is doubtful if women ever should be permitted to play cards. Hardly a day passes without women gathering for cards In one or another of the big hotels of New York city. Sometimes big parties are In aid of certain chari ties; sometimes they are merely an Item In the season's program of a women's club. Does one" of them ever pass without talk of cheating? Not one. Every time women gather to play cards for slender vases or Jap anese tea Bets there Is heated talk of the winning of the prizes by methods not exactly friendly. There are om en undoubtedly who have a weakness for sharp practices at cards, still It is doubtful if they offend as often In this respect as men. When anything ir regular crops up, however, they talk about it without fear or favor. In this way dissension and bitter quar rels arise, and it Is doubtful if even a "booby" prize is awarded without the and a maker of card sharps among women. Utica Globe. The Miracle of Polite Persistency. Says Orison Swett Marden, writing In Success Magazine: When genlun has failed In what it attempted, and talent says Impossible; when every other faculty gives up; when tact re tires aud diplomacy has fled; when logic and argument and Influence and "pull" have all done their best and retired from the field, gritty persist ency, bulldog tenacity, steps in, and by sheer force of holding on wins, gets the. order, closes the contract, does the Impossible. Ah, what mir acles tenacity of purpose has perform ed! The last to leave the field, the last to turn back, it persists when all other forces have surrendered and fled. It has won many a battle even after hope has left the field. Confederate commanders In the Civil War said that the trouble with General Grant was that "he never knew when he was beaten." Wheu Grant's generals thought that his Potatoea with Cheese. Pare and cut Into small cubes inough potatoes to make a pint; lay them in cold water half an hour, drain ind cook in salted water until tender. Place a layer in a buttered baking flish, sprinkle thickly with grated cheese, pepper and salt, with bits of butter and a little celery salt; fill the dish In this way, pour over a cupful of milk, bake fifteen minutes and serve Hot s SOCIETY WOMEN AT THE CARD TABLE. . "winner" getting her share of gossip. The wise woman is the one who lets cards severely alone, and that Is Just what some of them are doing. One of the most surprising things .about society women recently has been their loss of Interest in bridge whist. For several years it seemed as If this game would become a permanent In stitution. Women played for high stakes at almost every opportunity. They were at It morning, noon and night. In many Newport houses it was not an uncommon thing for the hostess to lead her guests straight from the breakfast table to the card table, and the afternoon receptions usually resolved themselves Into bridge campaigns. There were many women who gambled themselves poor, in the sense that they lost all their pin money and their own Incomes and were forced to go In humiliation to their husbands for more funds. There were other women who fattened finan cially on bridge. There was one prominent society matron who re ceived an automobile as a gift from her husband and the next week part ed with it to liquidate a bridge debt. There is, however, little .or no bridge gambling at present. Bridge Is dead. After all, as the evidence shows, it was a fad. ' Society cannot stick to anything. It must have change. Society women are restless, nervous, always calling for something different, and so bridge whist has gone. Of course It will be played, but only occasionally, and never again will it be a wholesale thief of time army, with only two transports, would be trapped at Vicksburg, they asked him how he expected to get his meu out, urging that. in case of defeat he could get only a small part of his army upon two transports. He told them that two would be plenty for all the men that he would have left when ha surrendered. It is the man in the business world who will not surrender, who will not take no for an answer, and who-stands his ground with such suavity of man ner, such politeness, that you cannot take offense, cannot turn him down, that gets the order; that closes the contract; that gets the subscription; that gets the credit or the loan. He is a very fortunate man who combines a gracious manner, suavity, cordiality, cheerfulness, with that dogged persistency which never gives up. Quite Unnecessary. Bacon I understand the principal rule of a new club at Paris Is that all the members on entering the insti tution shall preserve an absolute si lence. Egbert I suppose It is quite unnec essary to say it is not a woman's club? Yonkers Statesman. Nothing- Dangerous Abont That. Hewitt Delays are dangerous. Jew ett Oh, I don't know. ' My wife re ceived a letter this morning saying that her mother would have to post pone her visit. New York Press. KEEPING HIS WITS ABOUT HIM Salmon and Celery Salad. Flake enough canned salmon to make one cupful. Arrange lettuce leaves around with one cupful of cel ery cut In tiny crosswise slices. Make a, mound of the mixture In the center of the lettuce and pour on a dressing: made from two tablespoonfuls of oil, three tablespoonfuls of vinegar, a salt spoonful of salt and a dash of pep per. nulled Mnlad Dressing;. Take two teaspoons sugar, two tea spoons flour, one-half cup cream, one half teaspoon both mustard and salt, two tablespoons butter and two table Bnoonq vlnpfnr. Rub flour, seasonings and butter together. Add cream and cook in double boiler until hot, then add vinegar slowly. Add eggs slight ly beaten and cook until it begins to thicken. , Eg-a-leaa Ginger Snapa. One cup of granulated sugar, one full cup of shortening equal parts, lard, butter and beef drippings, or one half butter and one-half lard oue ta blespoon ginger, one-half cup cooklns molasses, one-half cup hot water, one tablespoon baking soda, one teaspoon salt Put soda on the molasses and pour on water and stir. Flour enough, to roll thin. Veal Sonp. Take a well-broken Joint of veal weighing about three pounds and cov er with four quarts cold water; boll gently for several hours, then add one juarter pound macaroni, previously cooked tender, or a cupful of boiled rice, season to taste with salt and pep per, boll up once and serve. -St Louis Star Cracker Tarta. Split common crackers in halves and soak them In cold water about five minutes. Drain water off and put one third of a, teaspoon of butter on cen ter of each half. Bake in hot oven until nicely browned; then put a tea spoon of raspberry Jam (or any kind if Jelly) In the center of each. Corn Sante. Place the contents of a can of coru (n a saucepan with a third of a cup ful of butter and allow it to simmer for five minutes. Then add a cupful of cream, a dusting of white pepper ind salt and a little nutmeg. Cook gently for a few moments, then pour Into a hot dish and serve. Cream Cake. One cupful of maple sugar, one egg, ine-half teaspoonful salt, One cupful sour cream, one and one-quarter cup Euls of flour, one teaspoonful soda. Add the soda to the cream; when it foams add the egg well beaten, next the su gar and salt, last the flour. Bake in a quick oven. French Dressing;. The ordinary French dressing la julckly and easily made. Mix In a small bowl' three-fourths of a teaspon ful salt, quarter of a teaspoonful pep per, two tablespoonfuls vinegar and lour tablespoonfuls olive oil. Stir un til well blended. Frnlt Cooklea. One egg, one cup of sugar, one-halt sup of butter, one cup of raisins, two thirds cup of sweet milk, one teaspoon jf cinnamon, one-half of clove and nutmeg, two teaspoons of baking pow der and flour to mix quite stiff. Drop from spoon on buttered tin. Jelly Roll. One egg, one-third cupful sugar, two or three large spoonfuls milk, three-quarters teaspoonful baking pow der, pinch salt, one-half cupful (good measure) flour. Put on Jelly and roll while warm. Tin used 9 by fii Inches. Floor Pollah In Kitchen. You can polish your nickel kitchen Utensils by rubbing them while hot with a soft cloth dipped In flour. If any flour remains around the handles it can easily be removed with a small brush. Kettle Knob. To replace worn out knob on tea ket tle lid saw an empty spool in two and cecure with screw the same as old one was. A half of spool also can be used for knob on screen door.
