Lincoln County leader., August 27, 1909, Image 2

LINCOLN COWf LEADER
R C COLLINS. Editor
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TOLEDO. OREGON
What they need In Breathitt Comv
ty li a poor feud Jaw.
A leading London physician hai
come out in favor - of cannibalism
German preferred.
The mailed hand of the law U hav
ing a lot of trouble in making connec
tion with the Black Hand.
The United States will not permit
midshipmen to marry, even if they
find wives who can support them. '
There Is no telling how many inde
pendence days Cuba may have to' cele
brate at the end of the next fifty
years.
"In twenty years from now we will
all be flying," says a scientist. But
very few people believe all the scien
tists say.
A New Jersey man ate nine plates
of ice cream, five pies and a dozen
bananas in less than an hour. He
thinks he could do better on a bet.
Don't judge a man from his every
day experiences.- Hiveu the grocery
clerk may be grand supreme lord high
chancellor of his lodge on Thursday
evenings.
When even Mr. Archbold dies it
may leak out that he has given away
a lot of money wtlh his right hand
without letting his left hand know
anything about It.
The fact that Mrs. Russell Sage has
given away $25,000,000 without a pro
test from anywhere, is pretty good evi
dence that the shades cannot commu
nicate with this world.
A Chicago pastor told his health
class that it is foolish to be tired. So
much talk about all these subjects
makes people tired. If you are tired,
go to work and forget It.
"A metaphysical physician now tells
mothers not to punish their children
for naughtiness, but to play to them
on the pnlano by way of correcting
their faults." Poor little kids!
In the suit of the government to dis
solve the coal combine, one of the
officers testified that coal must go still
higher. The gentleman who invented
that sun-heating plant will have to
hurry a little. -
Some people are worrying for fear
Mr. Roosevelt may be overcome by the
"sleeping sickness" in Africa. If they
even catch him napping over there,
they will do more than anybody has
ever been able to do in this country.
Fifty-four hundred dollars was paid
recently for a copy of the flrBt edition
of Isaak Walton's "The Compleat An
gler." Walton looked to the content
of a book, and preached the pleasures
of a frugal mind and inexpensive hobbles.
Why bother about the canals on
Mars and other theories. . A North
Carolina preacher has won a debate
with the argument that if the earth
were round and maintained a rotating
motion a tomcat couldn't stick to the
backyard fence.
It is common to stigmatize the pres
ent as the age of commercialism, and
America as distinctively the land of
the dollar. But there never was a pe
riod in history when so many people
were working for religious, philan
thropic and scientific ends, irrespective
of pecuniary returns, as there are to
day, and we very much doubt if these
higher ends of life are drawing as
many persons in the old world as in
the new.
Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wil
helmlna. That is the name of the
royal Dutch baby, and each word
means something. Starting with the
laat, every one knows it as the name
of her mother. Then come the names
of her two grandmothers the Grand
Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg, moth
er of her father, the Prince Consort;
and Queen Emma, her mother's moth
er. Louise is for Louise de Collgny,
the fourth wife of William the Silent,
who delivered Holland from the Span
ish yoke. Juliana. Countess of Stol
berg, was the mother of William the
Silent, and the ancestress of the
House of Orange. The little princess
will be called Juliana, after many-times-removed
grandmother of the six
teenth century.
Trudeau's classic experiment points
.as in the right direction. After Inocu
lating a number of rabbits with tuber
culosis he confined a number of them
Indoors and turned the others out
doors. The latter all recovered, while
the former all died. This experiment
shows that a rabbit living upon tts
natural food and under a natural en
vironment, is proof against tuberculo
sis. There Is abundant reason to be
lieve this equally true of man. In
other words, tuberculosis is not a nec
essary evil of human life but Is a nat
ural consequence of erroneous habits
and departure from natural condi
tions. Man is ' naturally an outdoor
animal. A mole lives a healthy life
In a burrow. A man must live in the
fresh air and the sunshine..
The statement or charge Is frequent
ly met with that "the newer immigra
tion," or the tapping, of fresh sources
of the human stream flowing westward,
is responsible for the growth of vice,
delinquency and crime in the United
States. Occasionally 'court or prison
statistics are furnished which appear
to support the charge. A report of a
special committee on . "lawbreakers"
that has been submitted to the Na
tional Conference of Charities and Cor
rection reaches the conclusion that
there has been no increase in "serious"
crime, despite the heavy immigration
from unpromising sections of . the
world. Whatever apparent increase in
criminality the figures indicate is de
clared to be due to the tendency to
multiply minor or petty regulations
and prohibitions, State and municipal.
As examples, ordinances against spit
ting on sidewalks or in cars, against
flipping pennies, giving away or sell
lug liaunicia, Luj'lug or selling c '.sy
rettes, are named In the report. The
distinction is one that every crim
inologist a If moralist regards as
valid, and the conclusions of the com
mittee will challenge attention in many
circles. In this connection one notes
the contention of one of the speakers
at the conference, a Cleveland judge,
to the effect that "80 per cent of the
foreign-born persons written Into our
records as criminals have absolutely
no criminal inclinations," but' are
merely the victims of Ignorance and
misunderstanding. There may be some
exaggeration in the assertion, but there
can' be no doubt that a better under
standing of American laws, customs
and morals on the part of new immi
grants, coupled with a better under
standing by American Judges,' prose
cutors and juries of the unassimllated
aliens, and of their inherited and in
bred notions, would prevent many in
fractions of our laws and keep down
our prison population. Ignorance of
the law cannot be accepted as an ex
cuse, but from a higher social point
of view it makes all the difference in
the world whether in a given class of
offenses moral turpitude and a de
praved nature are revealed, or whether
unfamlllarlty with our legal and moral
atmosphere and a temporary conflict of
standards and conceptions furnish the
sufficient explanation. At any rate, the
discussion of the subject of immigra
tion in relation to crime emphasizes
the value of proper parole and proba
tion systems, of intelligent administra
tion of the laws and of honest and
sympathetic "interpretation" of the
sentiments of the aliens among us.
Many stories of the late Victorlen
Sardou have been told In the newspa
pers of Paris stories of his poverty
in his youth, his struggle for recogni
tion as a dramatist, his repeated fail
uses, his ultimate succoii and above
all, his enormous capacity for work.
One such anecdote, prlntsd by Le Fi
garo, testifies indirectly to the power
of industry to Inspire respect and con
fidence in the character of the man
who practices It
When Sardou was young he lived
and worked in an attic in the Latin
Quarter of Paris. It was in the days
before water carriers were a thing of
the past, and it came about that the
poor young man owed sixty francs to
the peasant from Auvergne who used
to carry up his dally bupply of water.
"My good, fellow," Sardou said to
him one day, "I cannot pay you, and I
don't know when I shall be able to. I
don't want to abuse your goodness any
longer, so I must ask you, until 1 am
in a position to settle with you, not
to bring any more water. I will fetch
it myself."
But the Auvergnot would not hear
of such a thing.
"Monsieur," said he, "I have been
watching you for a long time. When
I bring your water you are always
writing. When ft 7oung man of your
education works as you do, one may
have entire confidence in him. He Is
bound to arrive. I shall go on bring
ing up your water as before.. You will
pay me when you succeed."
It was not long before the shrewd
Auvergnot's reading of Sardou's char
acter and abilities was justified.
Thoughtful..
"Algy, dear," remarked a young wife
to her husband. "I wish you would
taste this milk and see If It Is perfect
ly sweet. If It's the least bit sour I
mustn't give any of It to dear little
Fldo!" Judy.
HOW MBS. GOULD DRESSES.
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Above Is a Sample Costume of the Woman Who Spent
224,000 on Herself in a Year.
Clothing for one year, $40,000; street dress, $300; hat,
$500; two ostrich plumes in hat, $410; lace waist, $320; neck
lace, $27,000; bejeweled belt, $2,150; gloves, $12; shoes, $36;
breastpin, $20,000; diamond studded watch and chain, $987;
four diamond rings, $3,209; two ruby rings, $1,231; ivory
handled jeweled parasol, $140; stockings, $24.
WHERE CLEVELAND SLEEPS.
Princeton's Cemeterr Mar Be Called
America's Westminster Abber.
The cemetery at Princeton, where
Grover Cleveland was laid to rest, con
tains the tombs of so many of the
Illustrious dead that it has been called
the Westminster Abbey of America.
Here slumber all of the dead presi
dents of the college, save one; Here
rest the remains of colonial Justices,
King's councilors, members of the
Continental Congress, officers of the
army and navy, theologians and phi
lanthropists, the body of a Vice Presi
dent; and now tirat of. one who had
been President of the nation.
Here is the tomb of Aaron Burr,
and adjoining It the grave of Jonathan
Edwards. Here, also, are the remains
of Richard Stockton, a son of one of
the signers of the Declaration of In
dependence and himself a distin
guished statesman and Jurist. Near
by is the grave of "Commodore Robert
F. Stockton, of the United States
Navy, the man who . constructed the
Princeton, the first steam vessel In
our own or any navy, and who, In
1847, with a small force, conquered
California.
Conspicuous among the tombs In
the Bayard lot Is that of George Da
shlel Bayard, a brigadier general of
volunteers during the civil war. and
who, at the time of his death, was the
youngest brigadier in the Union serv
ice and regarded as one of the most
brilliant of its young cavalry leaders.
Near the tomb of the valiant young
officer is that of Charles Hodge Dod,
captain of the staff of Major General
Hancock, and who died In 1864 at
City Point, Va. Here, also, is the
monument of Albert B. Dod, S. T. D.,
a most brilliant mathematician and
professor of mathematics In the col
lege from 1830 to his death In 1845.
Just across the path Is the vault of
"John Berrien, Esq., one of the judges
of the Supreme Court of Judicature of
the province of New Jersey." He died
In 1772. Near by la a plain stone to
Captain James Moore, a commander
f militia In the Revolution, and the
drat Baa who forced Ms way tat
Nassau Hall while occupied by the
British at the battle of Princeton.
In what Is known as the college lot
sleep Princeton's many presidents. A
long line of slabs, discolored by age,
and many of them mutilated by relic
seekers, covers their remains. Par
tially obliterated Latin inscriptions
recount their virtues.
The tomb of Aaron Burr has been
much mutilated by relic hunters. Ac
cording to a wish many times ex
pressed he lies at the feet of his
father.
Increase In Horseflesh Eaten,
Owing to the steady Increase In tlu
consumption of horseflesh in Vienna,
the municipal authorities have erected
new slaughter houses for horses. They
comprise a fine block of brick build
ings, covering an area of 3,300 square
yards. Land and buildings together
have cost over $200,000. There Is
stabling for 200 horses. The principal
building Is the great slaughter hall,
more than 300 feet in length and 60
feet in width and equipped with the
most modern machinery. There are
stalls for killing 69 animals, each fit
ted with hoisting apparatus. There is
also a large double lift, with a capaci
ty of 2,000 pounds, for conveying the
meat to the cooling house. Last year
20,225 horses were slaughtered In Vi
enna for food. Most of it is converted
into sausages of various brands and
flavors.
Gnawing- His War.
Nature knew that the rat would
want to spend half his time gnawing
and she therefore provided him with
the right kind of teeth to do it A
boy caught a rat and boxed it up, and
In the course of a week the rodent
gnawed, a hole through oak planks
nailed together until there was a
thickness of 18 Inches. The hole was
almost as round and smooth as a car
penter could have made.
It makes a man cross to make a de
mand on either his purse or his sym
pathy; therefore women who have to
handle the brutes should beware.
Every owner of an orchard or a
melon patch bates boys.
WHEN MEU WORE SHAWLS.'
am 40 Years Ago The? Toole tha
Flace of Overcoats.
On very rare occasions you now see-
some old lady wearing a shawl, but
generally speaking, this once universal,
crormont has hpromft obsolete.
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Those children that are, say 40 years
old or. more, can probably remember
when even men wore shawls instead
of overcoats. . For about ten year
they were considered Just the thing.
This was the decade beginning with
about IS 60. President Lincoln was.
very partial to his big Scotch shawl.
which, according to the vogue, he
wore, not ' folded diagonally In femi
nine fashion, but folded lengthwise.
This folded shawl was passed
over the shoulders and around the .
front, where It was either held by the
hands or pinned by a huge shawl pin.
This case of the shawl Is about the
only one where the men have appro
priated an article of wear from the
women's wardrobe though the In
stances where the reverse has happen
ed are legion.
Even then, the shawl was originally
not a woman's garment exclusively
for the Scotch Highlander. has his tar
tan plaid, and the men of northern
Italy still wear a cloak which is very
little more than a shawl. There can.
be no question that the shawl Is more
useful and more picturesque as an ar
ticle of attire than the close fitting
coats both men and women now wear,
lue shawl couid iu cast) ih euim aouy
be used to protect two persons, or to
wrap a child in, or as an extra bed
covering; its fashion did not change
every three months, and it could be
used and passed down In the family
nntll It was worn out
Nowadays the only time when such
articles nre used Is when people are
making an ocean trip or traveling In
Europe. "Traveling rugs," which are
nothing more nor less than men'a
heavy shawls, are extremely English:
and for travelers they are considered
very proper and desirable but outside
of a steamer, train or carriage no one
who cares for what people will say
would be seen with one.'
SOME MARRIED MEDITATIONS.
By Clarence L. Cullea.
The woman who uses a liauiri tar
enamel that settles on the far in.
streaks on a hot day shouldn't dress
in a aarK room.
There is something slninilsrie-
stralned about the smile of a tmno.
amentally sullen woman who smllea
merely to exhibit a cheek dimple.
The Smart-Alec elrl with th mni
line of uncannily sophisticated conver
sation experiences about the same dlf-
ncuity in snagging a husband th.
skirted "good fellow."
The woman who snimlv gavs "Hnhr
'deed I'd Just like to catch myself tell-
mg my busband every llttln thinri"-
generally has a husband who
care a hang, only she doesn't know It
When she tells you, on your tire
evening, that she'll come to beri "in
as soon as she's finished reading this
novel," she never has any more than.
220 pages or so of the novel left to
read.
Ever find VOHrRBlf rrntvlr.r. . UH
- o " " -'ft a ui
Irritated when, the week's washing:
bill amounting to $6.85, you hear her
exclaim: "My, isn't that chean fnr
such nice work Just look how beauti
fully this shirtwaist la done up!"
Maybe.- too. when you imagine that
she Is brooding
little children. and all like that she
om7 wondering whether she'll have
that skirt made with nimn k
biased gores whatever they may be.
The young woman who lolls around;
in a sloppy kimono, reading a punk
novel, while her mother irons her
shirtwaists, is the same girl who,
when she gets her clothes on, brags
langulshingly in a company that fudge
U the only thine she knnw. h
cook.
Praise for Women. .
Was a woman ever known to blow
out the gas. asks a western paper,
or to be buncoed by a man who want,
ed to borrow money to pay a freight
blllT Does she ever get her pockets
picked or lose money von a little
"game?" If she has a roll of money
with her, does she ever flash it when
she wants to buy a cake of chewing
gumt Isn't it a fact that she Is wiser
than the men and more to be trusted?
Instead of a woman having a man
along to "protect" her, the dally pa
pers prove that every man who goea
away from home should have a woraaa
to act as guardian and keep him from
making a bigger fool of himself than
he naturally 1b.
Division of Musical Labor.
Rnlcker Is yours a musical family?
Bocker The cook sings about her
work and my daughter works about
her sing. New York Sun.
A woman's heartbreaks are almost
as bad aa a man's Indigestion,