Lincoln County leader., May 13, 1910, Image 2

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PLAYING CARDS FOE MONEY.
By Elbert Hubbard.
As a cold business proposition, let me give
you this: I would not trust an amateur gam
bler as far as you could fling Taurus by the
tall. The amateur gambler Is not necessarily
a bad man primarily bis intents are honest.
He plays first simply for recreation; then, to
add interest, the game transforms Itself into
penny-ante. From this to betting all the money
he has is a very easy evolution when the fever
is on. lie wins. But to quit when you have won and
give your opponents a chance to win their money back
Is more or less of a disgrace. He plays again and
loses. Then he wants a chance to get his money back.
He first plays only In the evening an hour alter supper.
Then, if he can get away from work at 4 o'clock and
play until supper time, he will do so, just as scores of
government clerks do, where the hours are easy. Satur
day night the game goes on until daylight.
If four men start in to play poker with $10 each or
a $1,000 each, It is just a matter of tnatftematical cal
culation before air of them will have nothing.- All they
have will go for cigars and drink and the midnight
lunch, which they would not need if they went to bed at
a reasonable hour. Do not imagine that all the gam
bling is done in the cities. Hardly a village in America
Is free from the scourge.
Gambling means blurred vision, weak muscles, shaky
servos. Lcs3 of sleep, lack cf physical exercise, lrrri
lar meals, bad air, excitement, form a devil's monopoly
of bad things and the end is disgrace, madness, death
and the grave. Boys, we need all the brains we have
In our work. ' If by concentration and cutting out folly
we succeed in a degree, we do well. But I do not be
lieve we can reasonably hope for success unless we elim
inate the pasteboard proclivities. This Is a cold busi
ness proposition. Chicago Examiner.
EARLY RISING SUCCESS.
By Dr. Madison C. Peters.
Benjamin Franklin said: "Six hours' sleep
for a man, seven for a woman and eight for
a fool."
I advise you to take eight and get at least
one to two hours of the eight, before mid
night. Night is the God-appointed time for
rest. The birds of the air, the animals of the
forest, the fish of the sea, even the trees,
shrubs and flowers obey nature's behest, and
rest during the hours of the night Man Is the only
rebel against the inexorable law.
Many are the men, and women, loo, who go to bed at
2 or 3 o'clock in the morning and then wonder why
they can accomplish so little. All our great men, in every
line of activity, early realize the value of time by mak
ing the best use of the morning hours. Among the an
cients, they who lay abed in the morning were branded
with the stigma of shame.
Gladstone was ever up with the lark. Leo, the great
est of all the popes, was an early riser. So was Bis
marck. The present German emperoi is noted for hab
its of early rising. Humboldt, Goethe, Schiller and
Heine have borne witness to the inspiration they got In
the early morning air. ' ...
Heinrich Shllemann, ta 17, was selling sauerkraut
and herring in a little German town; at 41 he retired
from business with a big fortune, and during his spare
time, mostly in the morning hours, before he com
menced business, had mastered the Hebrew, Arabic,
Latin, Greek, Russian, Swedish, English, French, Dutch,
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and modern Greek
languages, and as a result of this accomplishment he
became the foremost archaeologist of his day. What a
waste it would have been if he had spent his hours in
the night in Buch a fashion that he couldn't have gotten
up early the next morning.
The invincible Napoleon used to put his reports un
der his pillow that he might study them in his wakeful
moments and the early morning hours.
Abraham Lincoln made the most of the early morning
hours by lying flat on the floor with the fire of the torch
as light, while he devoured the contents of books that
he had walked miles to borrow books which he never
forgot to return.
A
IS FLESH FOOD ESSENTIAL TO MANt
By Dr. David Paulson.
The fact that thousands of working men
are temporarily adopting a nonflesh dietary
Ttiirl!y ri) tbe jr.cMil jwMon as to
what extent flesh food Is really essential for
health, strength and endurance. The result
of this experiment, carried out on such a larg
scale, may yet prove to be a greater contribu
tion of popular dietetics than even its influ
ence on the market prices.
i jt ucad of the laboratory at the University of Brus
sels made a similar investigation on the flesh eating and
nonflesh eating students, and he reports that in endur
ance the nonflesh eaters surpassed the meat eaters from
50 to 200 per cent. They also found that the vegetar
ians recuperated from fatigue far more quickly than
the meat eaters, hence this great authority recognized
the nonflesh plan as the best system for workingmen.
How often we hera the expression that a certain man
Is as "strong as a Turk!" And those who have seen a
Turkish porter fling a heavy trunk unaided upon his
shoulders will do well to remember that these men rare
ly taste flesh food in. any form whatever. George Allen,
the man who walked a thousand miles across England
and Scotland in seventeen days and a few hours, outdis
tancing bis flesh eating rival by nearly seven days, was
a strict vegetarian.
The Rev. Newell Dwlght Hillls says: "A little fruit,
a little cereal and whealen bread, a glass of milk
these are within the reach of all, even the poorest la
borer; anything more is at the peril of the eater."
It is more than likely that if several hundred thou
sand workingmen shall carry out their present resolu
tion to live without meat for a couple of months half
of them will experience so much benefit that they will
continue the experiment indefinitely.
BE A GOOD LISTENER.
Jaeat Who Will Be Silent la In De
jnand by Clever Hoateaa.
"Be a good listener. If you can't
'talk, listen. Don't chatter, says the
-North American. Guests have been
"bidden forth" to dine for their listen
ing propensities alone. The cautious
hostess is a veritable Charles Lamb
In her appreciation of ears. They are
raluable appendages indeed, and should
be strenuously cultivated by those who
only jabber when they talk.
We can't all talk; to some of us it
Is almost a physical impossibility to
get out a sensible word in company.
We may be entertaining enough to our
selves, but let something definite in the
way of conversation be expected of us
in an assemblage and we throw up
our hands.
It's only a form of stage fright, this.
We could perfectly well enter Into the
argument that's going round the fes
tive board if something would only
let us, but fear, the monster, holds us
in his grip.
Enforced silence draws one Inward
and the tongue cleaves to the roof of
the mouth; the very Hps are sealed.
AH the air about one seems a pained
witness to one's discomfort. Every
thing has got alrve and taken on'a crlt-
leal attitude, but Is ominously silent
while it thinks of you only you and
not another living, breathing soul. But
ilf you keep on letting the quiet thicken
.round you It's going to get very dense,
Indeed.
Break the spell always, but, better
still, prevent It from settling over you.
Learn the interested listener part and
you won't be In the center of the stage
enough to fluster you.
Starting? It Too Ulan.
It was in the days before church or
gans and choirs and Deacon Dorsey
volunteered to lead the singing of an
old hymn. He started out very well
"My soul, be on thy guard ten
thou " and he stopped unable to go
any further because he had such a
high 'pitch. He started over again,
"My soul, be on thy guard ten thou
and once more be stopped, this type
pitched so low that he could not pro
ceed.
"Say, Brother Dorsey," said one of
the congregation, "hadn't you better
tart It with Ave thousand?" Success
Magazine.
These days It seems to be more im
portant to 'have an old mahogany ta
ble that belonged to a grandmother
than to have bad the grandmother.
, ODD METHOD OF BOOKKEEPING.
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A method of bookkeeping as novel and Ingenious as it is pathetic was
discovered a short time ago by a New Orleans business man who had been
obliged to spend a few days in an out-of-the-way cotintry place. The hotel
was postofflce, country store, jail and all else of a business nature the place
possessed, but the proprietor and hotel manager could not write. On leav
ing the place he was presented with the bill shown in the drawing. The
figure in the bed means just what it implies, and the four ones with the
line drawn through the two ones following, means that the bed was occu
pied seven times. The dollar sign and three ones designate that the fee
for this privilege was $3.00. The figure drawn as seated at a table and the
marks following show that twenty-four meals were, eaten at a consideration
of $5.00. Popular Mechanics.
"FAKE" AZTEC RELICS GENUINE.
Indiana of Mexico City Have Been
Selling- Real Antlquea to Tonrlata.
Tourists and curio buyers in Mexico
City have for years been made to be
lieve they were experiencing the ex
quisite sensation of being humbugged
by fake Aztec Idol collectors, when In
reality they have been fooled all along
with the genuine article.
This discovery has been made by
Prof. William Nlven of Cuernavaca and
Mexico City, who has given years to
the study of the fossilized remains of
the ancient Inhabitants of Mexico, says
an exchange. Mr. Nlven has recently
discovered the Indians at work in a
treasure house of burled Mexican pot
tery, idols and similar remains some
miles west of Mexico City, which they
have been marketing on the streets of
Mexico City for years.
As it has been taken . for granted
that these objects were modern imita
tions and prices were cut down in ac
cordance, the Indians have fallen in
with the humor and found It more
profitable and quicker to let the buyer
do his own sizing up of the antique
value of the curio.
However, Mr. Niven was surprised to
find among the number of such objects
purchased by himself several that bore
unmistakable signs of great age. Curi
ous pieces of pottery nurchased hv him
on the streets had become of great
hardness, and to show a hieh dearree
of petrification that must have re
quired, not centuries, but thousands of
years.
Questioning the venders he haa heen
shown where they were dug. The place
is some miles west or Tacuba. The
diggings show that the Indians have
been exploiting the mounds for many
years.
Skulls have been found that noaneas
peculiar anthropological value, show
ing a type or people entirely different
in the structure and shape of their
Skulls from any other before found.
Mr. Nlven believes that the numer-
ous heads and faces of burned clay
represent family portraits and were
employed for similar purposes for
wnicn photographs are now used.
Rather Paradoxical.
"One thing always puzzled me about
a parliamentary proceeding."
"What Is that?"- . '
"How a man can be so acrobatic as
to be the chairman of a standing com
mittee." Baltimore American.
WHERE THEY WERE BORN.
Nat Goodwin is a Boston man.
Robert Edeson came to life in Baltl-
nore.
Baron Max Hoffmann was born near
Cracow, Poland.
Robert Mantell is a canny Scot, bar
ing been born in Ayrshire.
Far away Portland, Ore., was the
birthplace of Blanche Bates.
Don't start, but Jthe birthplace of
John Mason was Orange, N. J.
Otis Harlan first saw the light of
day In Muskingum County, Ohio.
Grace Hazard was born In St Louis,
but her parents are New England Yankees.
Elsie Janls was born in Columbus,
Ohio, and still calls that place her
home.
Clara Morris spent her childhood in
Cleveland, but was born in Toronto,
Canada.
Iaabell D'Armond was born in St.
Louis. Her father was a surgeon and
practiced for years in the Mound City.
Miss Gertrude Hoffmann is a San
Francisco girl. Her father Is one of
the constructors in the Scott ship
building works.
Little Mile. Dazle, the dancing star
of vaudeville, came into the world In
St Louis in the Peterkln family.. She
was "raised" In Detroit
Jefferson Do Angells and Edna Wal
lace Hopper and William A. Brady and
Jnm J. Orhptt all won born and
raised In San Francisco.
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.
The first horse railroad was built In
1820.
Coal was first used as an lllumlaant
In 1826.
The velocipede was Invented by
Drals ia 1817. -
The only self-supporting territory of
the United States is Alaska.
The Chilean government has under
contract 698 miles of railroads at an
estimated cost of $24,207,660.
A chimney of concrete block was re
cently built in Germany without the
use of scaffolding, which represents a
great economy in the cost
Billiards and pool on shipboard are
now possible through the recent in
vention of a self-leveling table which
accommodates Itself to every move
ment of the vessel. '
Levantine newspapers report that
Turkey has granted a conditional con
cession to an American syndicate for a
1,343-mile railroad through Asia Minor.
Our oil exports to China increased
from 13,000.000 gallons In 1899 to 87.
000,000 in 1909 and nearly 104,000,000
In 1908, having thus quadrupled in ten
years.
Thirteen grams of radium chloride
have been produced at the imperial
Austrian radium factory, located at St
Joacblmsthal. It Is estimated that
this mineral has a value of $45,000 to
$50,000 a gram, or more than $500,000
tor the entire amount Pure metalllo
radium is never seen.
iicei Radiant Exlatr
This rather surprising question ia
raised by Dr. Gustav Le Bon, a well
known scientist, who calls upon the '
friends of science to contribute $10,000,
the sum which be aaaJmatea as prob
ably necessary to cover the scat of
experiments to prove whether radium
really exists. His own idea is that
there Is no such metal, and that the
phenomena from which its existence
has been inferred are due to unknown
combinations analogous to those which
impart the property of phosphoresence
to certain sulphides. He calls atten
tion to the fact that what we usually
call radium is simply the chloride oi
bromide of an unknown substance. A
pure chloride, he says, is never phos
phoresent but becomes so when
mixed with traces of certain other sub
stances. He predicts that the result of
the research that he proposes would be
to derive from the so-called chloride of
radium nothing more than the well
known metal barium, and holds that
the observed radio-activity results
simply from 'certain now unknown
chemical combinations.
Equal to the Emerg-eacy.
"No, Gerald," she said, shaking her
lovely head; "I positively will not mar
ry you before next June."
"But your father and mother both,"
urged the young man, "think"
"Don't quote papa and. mamma; they
are thinking only of their plans for the
summer. If you change my determina
tion, Gerald, you will have to bring
more pressure to bear than that"
Gerald, being a resourceful .young
man, promptly brought the pressure to
Strict Woatea Who Lar.
The strictest women are at times the
most loving. When this happens their
attachment is as strong as death, their
fidelity as resisting as the diamond.
They are hungry for devotion and
athlrst for sacrifice. Their love is a
piety, their tenderness a religion, and
they triple the energy of love by en
shrining it as a duty. Henri Frederie
Amdel. -
By Cempartaea.
"I notice some of the old newspaper
jokes have got on the stage."
"So?"
"Yes; and they really seem quite
fresh in musical comedy." Louisville
Courier-Journal. '
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FASHION HINTS
Ita Nature.
"The ease of this time I am having
is like .taking candy from a baby."
"Then you are having a howling
time." Baltimore American.
Long lines and extreme simplicity
make this charminor o-nwn of rKiffnn
ret. A heavy silk mesh Insertion four
schei wide. Is the only trimming used.
dalclc to Lieara Mnale.
The talent of the negro race for mu
sic is shown by the experience of the
bandmaster of a Teglment of native
troops in Jamaica. When he took
charge not a man in the command
knew a single note. Only one or two
could play an Instrument even a lit
tle. Tet in six months he had select
ed his musicians and taught them
enough to appear in public. Two or
three years later their fame had
spread to England and they were in
vited there to give a series of con
certs. Their tour was highly successful.
FOR GRAIN GROWERS
"Woodlark" Squirrel Poison is the most
reliable and destructive agent yet devised
tor the extermination of Gophers, Squir
rels, Sage Rats and Prairie Dogs. It if
the cheapest insurance against theii
ravages. Every kernel is warranted to
kill. Climatic changes or moisture of the
;arth do not destroy its strength. Re
mires NO MIXING OR PREPARATION. Il
lways ready for use. No other is so
;ood. Dealers will refund the purchase
rice if not as claimed. Pamphlet free.
Hoyx Chbmicai, Co., Portland. Oregon
MUCH IN LITTLE.
Longevity Is most frequent In coun
tries of low birth rate.
Penny postage is DroDOsed between
Great Britain and Turkey.
A bushel of era In will make four
and one-half gallons of spirits or twen-
ly-seven gallons of beer.
The world's estimated steam nower
in use to-day is 12,000,000 horse power.
The German iron and steel industry
is apparently as busy and prosperous
as the Americans.
The City Council of Chlcaro has
killed the proposed ordinance prohibit
ing peddlers and newsboys from crying
'heir wares.
American capitalists Bra trvtna? to
form a merger of every acre of Umber-
producing land in Novla Scotia, invest
ing $5,600,000.
A tack hammer, the head of which
folds Into a receaa in tha'atleV. for
conveniences in carrying, has been pat-
miea Dy a Pennsylvanlan.
Spyro Matsouka of Athens, Greece,
poet and lecturer, who has been tour
ing America for six months, is serious
ly ill at the Presbyterian Hospital, In
Vew Tnrlr
Taw noma at Contention.'
1 dont speak to the woman across
"tot- street any more."
"What's the matter now?" -"She's
for Peary." Birmingham
Age-Herald.