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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1909)
LIHGGLK COOm LEADER R E CCH.UNS. Editor r N HAVDEN. MaMscr TOLEDO OREGON Not for the great war of the Arctic lec:u:e litform. Tie cross dog will booq be tasting tie rsuB-uker. Some politicians have discarded the Golden Rule for cne of steal. Two men discovering the Pole couldn't have offered a finer line of conversation. Wine Sitting up with a sick friend, eh? Well, where are your diary, your observations and your witnesses? To discover the North Pole Is not all that an explorer must do. He has got to prove It to a lot of suspicious rivals. Uncle Sam will not begin taking the next census till April IS, 1910; don't begin to worry yet about being overlooked. Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey, where farmers think wheat raising doesn't tay. Goldsmith, revis ed by Hill. The African Diamond Trust has put op prices. Here is where the heart less monopolies take advantage again of the necessity of the poor. Some men are born tired, some are tired because they have to work, and some are trying to read the entire out put of North Polar literature. Dr. Cook expects to make $a00,000 lecturing on his dash to the pole. Peary probably expects to make twice that sum telling how Cook didn't dash. The quickest way to start a calam ity bowl or to hear all about hard times Is to sit down among a bunch of chronic loafers and make a remark about prosperity. What do you think of this?. Mr. Btlckney states that the rebate evil, Instead of being stamped out by the enforcement of the new law, flourishes now mora than ever. Dr. Murphy has discovered a way to make new Joints. Perhaps this method will fix us up so we may scratch between our shoulder-blades without rubbing against a post. The wife of a rich Pennsylvantan has, after an unexplained absence of six months, returned home and been forgiven by her husband. She may know something concerning his iant which he doesn't want the public to find out. For the first time the chancellor bl the German Empire Is a commoner. It is "Herr Doctor" von Bethmann Hollweg, and not "count" nor "prince" nor even "baron." Eventually, no doubt, the German chancellor will be come, like the premiers of England, or France, or Italy, the chief of a par liamentary majority, and not the' per sonal representative of the Emperor himself. "Oumdropa and science! " What r combination Is horel Mr. Bradley says of all the sweotest things on earth the Eskimos' sweet tooth Is the sweet st, and be adds that the envious denl sen of the North will travel thirty miles tor one sweet gumdrop. Who know but that these gumdrops were a great factor In the exploration ol the unknown world. Who will doubt that they were not, after all, the lowly igenta that brought about the much' ought-for end? One of the most perplexing features If the immigration problem Is the ten lency of the newly arrived aliens to lettle down in the overcrowded tene ment districts of the great coast cities. Comparatively few have the means or llsposltlon to penetrate Into the inte rior of the country, where workmen ire more needed, and Independence is Bore quickly and surely gained. Two fears ago Congress authorized the Commissioner of Immigration to es labllsh a division of Information, which should give to Immigrants the kind of advice that would help them to decide where to settle, and dlstrlb te those in search of work to quar lers where their labor was needed. During the first year more than two thousand persons , were thus directed to available homos or suitable places If employment, In thirty-five different States. Thirty-eight occupations and thirty-four nationalities were repre lented. Last summer more than three thousand were sent to the harvest selds of the West. In comparison with the total immigration, these numbers leetn small. But they represent a sub itantial amount of usefulness for the Mw Institution. As the division of In formation becomes "more and more tar : mULtr with its work, and employes In different pans cf lie country come to realize its existence, its opportunities for helpful service are certain to In-; crease. An anxious Inquirer wants to know what has become of the man that used to carry a cabbage leaf in the crown of his hat to ward off sunstroke. We remember him well. He were other things besides the cabbage leaf and a hat; items, bluejeans trousers, brown jeans coat, a cotton shirt, wool en socks, and cowhide boots, the last named coming In a wooden box, big at one end and little at the other, be ginning with No. twelves men's size and tapering down to the copper toes for the small fry. In the winter time he greased the boots with mutton tallow to render them Eoft and pli able, but even then it required thf combined efforts of a bootjack and thf entire family to begin his un.'.reasing He built his barn on the cret of the hill and h;s house in the valley below so as to be near the sprin?. Tradition and the almanac governed hU farminf methods. He planted his potatoes in the dark of the moon and his bean3 ir the light of the moon, and split his cow's tall to cure her of the "hollei horn." He rose at 4 In the morning fed the stock by lantern light, and sat on the fence waiting for dawn to en able hlra to work In the field. His wants were simple. The farm product supplied the table with almost every thing except sugar and coffee. These he traded for at the "store," giving in exchange sprjng chickens at 5 to 1C cents apiece and eggs at 10 to 15 cent! a dozen. At hog-kllllng time he had fresh meat as lone as the sausaee and sparerlbs lasted. After that he went! from bacon to ham, and then from ham to bacon, with a kit ofsalt mack erel added about twice a year. His social diversions were few. In sum mer he was too "busy, and In wlntei the roads were too bad for much trav el. In spite of that he got to the coun ty seat occasionally and served on the Jury two or three times. Once he went to the "city," as the nearest metropo lis was vaguely designated. After that event he was wont to shake his head at unexpected moments and mutter, "Such a rlppln' and a rarin!" Read ers of a certain class of magazines im agine that his favorite oath was "By heck," but this Is a mistake. "I gran ny" and "plague take It" were hli strongest expletives as a rule, the for mer indicative of a modified form ol ancestry worship, while the latter bears evidence of a transmitted En glish oath, it In turn harking back to the days of London's pestilence. All In all, his was a' drab-colored exist ence, broken but not brightened by hog cholera, quarterly Interests, and annual taxes. Like as not, the whole thing ended by his getting caught In a cold rainstorm; then came a sudden chill and pneumonia, or, as they called It then, the lung fever." He left the farm and the mortgage to his eldest son and told everybody he was "wlllln' to go," and no one seemed to doubt it. So that's what has become of him. Another reigns In his stead, but every thing has changed. Other times, other manners. His successor has a house on the hill, with hot-water heat and electrio lights and a bath tub. The mortgage has been replaced by a bank account. Macadam roads, tallor-cut clothes, an automobile, scientific farm ing, rural free delivery, cows milked with a suction pump, eggs 80 cents a dozen, butter 40 cents a pound cash. Where Is the man with the cabbage leaf? Non est, we tell you. He ia as extinct as the dodo. im Wlll.imt a Slip, The prodigious memory of the late Constant Coquelln of the Comedie Fruncais is the subject of a story In the Fortnightly Review: One evening In Brussels Coquelln was dining with the VIcamte de Lovenjoul. There were several guests, among whom were two or three actors, and they were talking about memory. "How many parts do you know well enough to play to-night If need be?" somebody asked Coquelln. He took a sheet of paper and wrote down the names of flfty-thTee plays In his repertoire. His friends laughed. "You are boasting, surely," said De Lovenjoul. "You have every one of those plays In your library," Coquelln said, quiet ly. "Get them all out and put them on the table." The vlcomte did so. "Now," said Coquelln, "let anybody select a cue from any of these plays at haphazard, and give it to me." They tried him with sixteen plays out of the fifty-three, and he never missed a single cue or made one mistake. WE ABE KEN 02O.Y AS WE EEC 0X2 KEU. By Prof. George B. Foster. Almost every language contains the equiva lent of our old saying: "He's a chip of the old block." And then there Is O. W. Holmes' bon mot: "Every man is an omnibus in which all his ancestors are riding." More Important still, the old church and the new science both know a law of heredlta tion. Man is hereditarily burdened with pre disposition to disease and vice, they both as sert. .Now, the old church had a plan of escape from this network of necessity. A divine decree of grace ar ranged for the salvation of a part of the race from the ruin of hereditary sin. But this sort of salvation does not satisfy the moral sense of the modern man. That a fixed number were arbitrarily selected to be saved from the curse under which our common humanity groaned this conception has turned out to be offensive to the moral sense. No man wants that blessedness in which he must helplessly gaze upon the damnation of his brothers who were passed by In the decree of grace. It is not whether we have inherited bane or blessing, it is what we do with our heritage that counts In the world of values. And we can convert our curse into a blessing, our blessing Into a curse, both Into character. The law of heredity which at the beginning of my ca reer binds me to its network can In the end free me Iroui iti tieUurk. I cay be caved by the la-r from the law. Instead of thus denying the law we fulfill it AMERICA NO LONGER MERE SPECTATOR. By Sidney Brooks. It Is difficult for Europeans, who live in a powder magazine and rarely have the fear of an explosion out of their minds, to realize the simplicity, spaciousness, and unhampered self-absorption of American life. Foreign poll tics is minimized by them at least as much as it Is exaggerated by Europeans. Ameri cans can hardly be got to take them serious- J ly. A diplomatic dispute with another power, conducted on either side upon the Implication of force, is ot all experiences the one most foreign to their nor mal routine of existence. When you have mentioned the Monroe doctrine you have pretty well indicated the sum of the average citizen's interest in external affairs. During several years in the United States I do not recall a single well Informed debate in Congress on the foreign policy of the republic or a single member who ever treated his constituents to an address on such a topic. The operative opinion of the commonwealth still desires to have as few dealings as possible with foreign powers, still quotes and abides by Washington's warn ing against "entangling alliances," still shrinks from any course that threatens "complications," still clings to the policy of Isolation as the one that most adequate ly squares with the needs of American conditions. This Is so even though facts and necessity have out run many of the formulas, prejudices, and traditions that a decade and a half ago were all but omnipotent. The peculiarity of America's position in the general scheme of world politics is indeed precisely this, that her people are unconsciously engaged in adapting their mental outlook to their achievements. The Spanish war landed them on a stream of tendencies that has already carried them far beyond their old confines, and is in exorably destined to carry them farther still. UNITED STATES, PRECEPTOR OF JAPAN. By Louis Ichlge OgMta. A visitor to Japan is at once Impressed, with the evident desire for education among the Japanese pe'ople that shows Itself on every hand. The governmental regulation that makes education compulsory is really little needed, for the parents themselves show the greatest eagerness to give their children the best school advantages they can afford. In spite of the multitude of children who swarm the streets and the vast number who work in the fields and In various Industries where the cheap labor of children can be used to advantage, school sta tistics in Japan show a much better percentage of chil dren ot Bchool age in attendance than is shown in some States In America. Recent reports show that there are about 30,000 pub lic and private school"", nrly 120.000 professors and teachers, and about 5,295,000 students in Japan. There is hardly an Incorporated city in the empire that has not at least one kindergarten. Many colleges and uni versities, public and private, furnish opportunity for higher learning to thousands of Japanese young men as well as women, but the crown of them all Is the im perial university. V MARRIAGE AND GOOD LOOKS. By Betty Vincent. Girls, do you marry a man because he dresses well or because you love him? Do you love him because he is 6 feet tall and broad-shouldered or because he Is honorable and a gentleman? From some of the letters I receive from young girls I cannot help in ferring that their ideal is a combination of a clothing house poster and a showman in a musical production. If the heart of the man Is tender and kind, what can it matter if every feature on his face Is hopelessly crooked? The doll-faced man Is as bad as, and worse than, the doll-faced girl. The rugged man of sterling worth is the man to guard a woman's future and happi ness. If you are impressed with a man's smartness of dress stop and think, girls, how that same man would look In rough and simple working clothes. Ask your self, too, if you would be willing to give up many of your own little vanities that your husband might gratify his own fastidious sense of adornment. Ig -Cook tor o . a roao Crop. The potato crop of the world is roughly 6,000,000,000 bushels a year, Moat of it is raised In Europe. It's some satisfaction to know that people can't draw a sight draft on yoa ' for a debt of gratitude. . J On the Orient Express an enigmatic gentleman with a mauve ribbon In his buttonhole hastens to Paris, writes a correspondent from the French capital. Fhe Cologne Express carries another, the Sud Express a third. A fourth conies by the English packet. From Lisbon and St. Petersburg two start; from Rome and Constantinople two arrive. All wear the pale mauve rib bon. They are the cooks of four great kings. Without the best butters, vinegars, wines,, truffles, mushrooms, ..herbs, cream, spices and raw materials of all kinds, there Is no grand cookery. Tho pantry chef hands out the Ingredients of every dish completely garnished to his colleagues. He has one specialty. All cold dishes are his particular care. The kitchens of Edward, the Czar, Alfonso and Leopold are to-day near perfection. Francis Joseph up to ten years ago kept the most princely table of them all. 'When age forced him to go slow he still invited the archduke's and their suites. Then' finally the force was handed over to the Archduke Ferdinand, whose simple living is nat ural and whose enthusiasm did not last a year. For the first time in 1,000 years the court of the Holy Ro man Empire (till 1809) had no longer the greatest kitchen of the world. To-day Francis Joseph eats alone. When he goes on a gastronomic spree It is with frankfurters and horserad ish, with "spaetzle" cakes. But the kitchens of Nicholas, Edward, Alfonso and Leopold are run on the great old lines of; 1. A pantry chef. 2. A chef of soups, entrees and hot desserts,, including souffles, fritters (sweet or otherwise), hot fruit croutes, ete. 3. A chef roaster, who also directs all grills and fries. 4. A sauce chef, who rules over all that carries a sauce; fish, braised meats, etc., i. e., tbe majority of dishes. 5. A pastry cook. 6. A chef decorator. Do not think he decorates the table. He decorates the food. Be It the czar's bear chops, the baby bear with bright glass eyes is brought in holding his own chops on a sliver plate garnished with smilax. When Edward eats his fa vorite turtle doves they come boned, wrapped In a chaud-froid sauce with cameo design in black truffles. They are ranged round a bed of Spanish chestnuts puree. But, above them, the beautiful birds spread their white wings. Such "presentations" of the dish are the chef decorator's work. He almost a taxidermist spreads the tall of the peacock In his gorgeous feathers over the roast peacock, whose breast meat only Is eaten. Never will the sauce cook try to roast nor the roaster touch a sauce. Those turtle doves pass from chef to chef, each adding what the lllao ribbon orders. Quelllan, head chef of the old sul tan, taken over by the new, quit the Cafe de Paris six years ago on $2,000 per year salary and an admitted com mission on purchases of from $8,000 to f8,000. To-day he has a real dilet tante to work for the new sultan la poet, rose grower and eourmet: hut M. Quelllan deplores the Turkish cmza for stuffed meats of all kinds. They actually want the Rouen duck com. plicated with a stuffing that terrible; strangled nign duck, whose sauce demands Its liver festered in the sun! M. Menager, head chef of Edward. and M. Peltier, head "chef of Queen Alexandra, have fixed salaries of $8,000, free lodgings and a rake-off of 3 per cent on all p'i'-chases accented hv them. Queen Alexandra has simple tastes a breast of Bohemian pheasant, a slice of Danube sturgeon, or a sad dle of Siberian young boar. On the contrary. King Edward probably knows more about great feeding than did Carlos himself. He delights In plovers' eggs. He adores little birds. The art of these cooks Is sublime. Each can give you a choice of 5,000 dishes. There are 125 ways of pre paring eggs, 32 "on the plate" (not fried, but done in the balnmarle) ; 47 poached, 20 with cheese, 13 "en co cotte" (tiny earthen dish), 32 ome lettes, not to mention any use of hard boiled eggs. Veal Is cooked in 90 ways. There are 80 principal soup3. The nursing school of modern gas tronomy is the Salon of Parisian Crefs. Here meet Paul de Amlcl oi the Quirlnal kitchens, Bosomporo oi the Vatican, Quenon of Belgium; Bo relll, with Prince Doria, and others. A great catering combination It Is, able to undertake the most brilliant gala dinners at a day's notice. Its cen ter is Paris. It is run by business men who can offer many advantagei that an artist chef, thoughtless ol money details, might not think of. It is the beginning of the end of prince ly kitchens. I'ecan Culture. Pecan nuts are grown successfully in several States, but mainly In those States south of parallel 40. Forty feet Is generally the distance apart ot the trees. ' If the triangular method of planting Is adopted forty trees can be grown to the acre. Pecan trees may bear a few nuts at an early age, but paying crops cannot be expected tinder ten years and full crops under twenty. The annual yield of a tree In full bearing has been variously report ed at from one to twenty bushels. Hard Graves. Before a grave can be dug in the churchyard of Llanbadoc, In South Wales, the rock has to be blasted ft