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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1911)
PASSENGERS ALL PEEP A GIRL BATHERS DO NAUGHTY DANCE AS TRAIN PASSES. Her Domestic Tyrant ING7XDN br a I v mm OSSIP By CARL Some folks wondered tit tne mar riage between Stephen Roberts and Clara Colby, and others admitted that It might be a good thing. Some folks wondered because Stephen was an old bachelor and set in his ways, while the young lady was known to be rather flighty and flirty. Some admit ted because they thought an old bach elor was Just the husband to make a frivolous wife settle down. There was one thing Miss Clara bragged of as a girl, and that was that nobody could manage her. Whatever she wanted to do she would do. Her tnarrlage wasn't going to make a bit of difference about that She said so to Stephen. His answer Is not record ed, but whatever It was he probably did some thinking, and perhaps he' made up bis mind to pursue a certain policy. It was weeks after the wedding be fore there was a clash. The husband made a suggestion now and then, In stead of commanding or nagging. While they were only suggestions, the young wife found herself following them without opposition, and this pleasant state of affairs might have continued but for an even more frivo lous wife who dropped In one after noon to say: '. "Clara Roberts, do you know that all the folks are talking about the way you've been humbled since your mar riage?" "What I-humbled!" .was the ex clamation. i "Yes. Everybody notice it Tou jused to have a mind of your own, but now you are as bumble as a cat We 8he Was Also Frightened. all say It's a shame for your husband to lay the law down to you as be does." "But be doesn't He has never tried to boss me one Blngle time." "You used to be out every after noon." , "He Just thought It was a little too much." "You haven't been to the club in four week's." "Stephen said he'd rather stay home." , "You dldnt ride out all last week." "But we haven't a carriage of our own, you know, and the hired ones are Tory expensive." "Just to. Everybody said Stephen Roberta would put an end to your ex- travagancea. Oh, he's bossing you all ngnti- When the visitor had departed Mn Roberta sat down and reviewed the situation. Waa her husband bom-inr her? Waa he humbling her to the dust? Waa he Insidiously curtailing her privileges? No! Yes! Come to think of it, he waa actually playing the domestic tyrant and wearing a mask while doing it Other folks had noticed it right along, but she bad been foolish and blind. She had given up this and given up that, and now people were calling her a humble cat! And did that domestlo tyrant of a Stephen Roberts think any more of her for her sacrifices, as she named them? Not a bit He would simply go on demanding more. He bad asked her to give up hired carriages, but bad he given up cigars? He had asked her to eliminate her club, but wasn't he riding the goat at his Masonlo lodge one night a week? Mrs. Clara Roberta had three hours to think things over before her hus band came up to dinner. That was plenty of time to arouse her obstinacy, kind when be entered the house ahe was ready for him. The love-light bad gone out of her eyes. There was a red spot on either cheek. She wait ed five minutes for him to ask what JENKINS the matter was and as he didn't do it she boldly declared: "Stephen, I want to ride out every afternoon next week!" "You know what my salary is at the bank," be replied. "And I shall go to the club!" "I hope not" "And I want a new suit at once!" "Yes?" "I didn't marry you to be ground down!" "No?" "Mother said I could come home to her any time." "Yes?" "And if things dont change at once I'll go! I want it dtclded right here and now." "So do I!" Mrs. Roberts left the table and went over to tee east window. She changed to the west one. Then she sat down. Then she stood up again. Mr. Rob erts refused to be drawn into an ar gument to spoil his appetite. He re fused to say what he would do, and it was for her to give in or carry out her threats. Give in? Never! She walked upstairs and began to array herself. The distance to her mother's manor house was a mile and a half, and dark ness was at hand. She would go, however. She would go if the dis tance were ten miles. There was a principle at stake. People were refer ring to her as a worm of the dust They should see!" All family Jars do not bring thunder storms. This one did, however. The wife who started for mother's with haughty step and hard-set face, leav ing a husband behind her at his cof fee, had not trailed through the dust more than half a mile when wind, rain, thunder and lightning were upon her. She was thoroughly soaked be fore she could gain the shelter of an old tumble-down barn. She tried to remain angry, but she was too wet She was also frightened. Every time it lightened the red-hot thunderbolt made straight trail for the sagging roof over her head. When nothing else was doing a hog that had taken shelter before her moved about and anathematized things in his own lan guage and made out that he was a two-legged tramp. , Why had not Stephen stopped her from leaving the house? That was the question the young wife asked herself over and over as she stood there in her sopping shoes. Why hadn't be kissed her and tried to make up? She had said she was go ing home to mother, but he hadn't filed one single objection. Oh, what a heartless brute! That is, she would give a year of her life if he was there with her now! Thunder, lightning, rain, darkness, and an old tramp get ting his courage up to attack her! And even if she lived to reach her mother's house what sort of a story could she tell? When she first started out she felt she would be received with open arms, and that the mother would say: "So you have left that villain for good and all! Good! Come to my arms, child. I will see that Stephen's neck la broken within a week!" Now', in that cold rain, with her shoes a-sop and the rain pelting down harder and harder, she Just cried like a baby and called out: "Mother, I forbid you to break his neck! Stephen is the best husband in aU this world!" Then a hand clasped one of hers, and an arm stole around her waist She had not heard any one approach but she waa not startled. She was gently drawn out of the ruin Into the road along it to her home and the hog waa left to wonder and puzzle over the idiosyncrasies of human na ture. Not a word was spoken on the way home not a word for an hour later. Then the husband quietly ob served: 'I'll order the carriage for next week, Clara." But I dont want you to," she re plied. "I'm coming down to the bank every evening to walk home with you!" Put a Tax on Cats. Puss Is no favorite with the Mun ich city councillors. They ha,ve now decided to Impose a tax on cats. The supporters of the new impost contend that the keeping of cats Involves danger to the public health, besides frequently constituting a nui sance to the neighbors. When own ers have to take out a yearly license It is thought that cats will be better cared for. It is hoped, too, that with a lesser number of cata the wanton slaughter of singing and other small birds might be diminished. This measure of the Munich city council is believed to be the first attempt made by any government or local authority to tax cats. Occupants of Smoking Car Nearly Fall Out of the Windows In Their 'Attempt to Vlew the Weird Spectacle. Kansas City, Mo. Clad in Gertrude Hoffman style, but without the beads. Nellie Large and Grace Dalton, both of this city, danced naughty dances and waved their hands merrily on the bank of a swimming pool. Overhead, thundering along a culvert, waa a Burlington passenger train, and from its many windows heads of men and women aMke protruded. It was an en tirely new and weird spectacle. They looked and were duly shocked. The conductor, noticing that only the back seams on the coats of alt the passengers in the smoker were visible, nearly fell over with amazement when he. too, peeped. When his train ar rived at Kansas City he promptly no tified Earl Dawson of the Harlem po lice department, who lost no time in arresting the women. They were still in their chilly dishabille when the of fleer arrived at the pool and pro fessed not to understand the where fore of his action. They were given a hearing on a charge of disturbing the peace before M. Crouse, Justice of the peace of Harlem. , Tbey pleaded "not guilty." The Justice fined them $25 and $11 costs each. Two men paid their fines. Miss Large, who is nineteen years old, declared she and Miss Dalton, twenty-one, were "Just bathing like ladles when that old cove of a police officer came along and pinched us. On the square, the dance was a little classical thing we had been practicln' at home and nothln' bad at all. Why people want to be stuck up about such a leetle thing I can't understand," she concluded, with a scornful look at the policeman. The news of the arrest drew a large crowd of farmers to the little Justice court room. There were so many some had to stand outside and look over the shoulders of the rest How ever, nothing sensational developed during the proceedings, except the dis play as evidence of a couple of but why tell? Even the girls blushed a little when the Justice, who is near sighted, put on his glasses 'in order to decide as to their efficiency in screen ing the nymphlike forms of the bath era. GIRL'S SKIRT IN HIS POCKET Unusual and Amusing Incident Hap pens to Young Man on Cincinnati Street Car. Cincinnati, Ohio. It was growing dark the other evening and the Au burn avenue car Was crowded with passengers. The car was of tha sum mer type, and seated about the fourth row was a nice-looking young man, who seemed absorbed in his newspa per. From the heavy spectacles and close range of the paper It could eas ily be deduced that the young man was very near-sighted. The car reached the top of the MIL when something occurred which set the entire lot of passengers in an up roar. The near-sighted youth, hap pening to glance from his paper. espied upon the floor, near his feet. what he took. to be his pocket hand kerchief. He casually reached down, seized the bit of white and, raising himself up, began earnestly stuffing it into his pocket There was a short scream from some one sitting next to the young man, and the next Instant she was on her feet "How dare you?" she was heard to exclaim. "I dldnt know I dldnt mean " the young man stammered. His face was scarlet He got up and Jumped off at the next atop. "It wasn't his fault If he mistook the girl's skirt for his handkerchief," a sympathetic passenger remarked. BIT OFF EAR; SWALLOWED IT Belligerent Pennsylvania Men ' Were Trying to 8ettle Differences In a Fight ' Homestead, Pa. James McCord Is In the hospital with bis right ear gone. There Is no chance of a graft Ing operation, because William La mone, who bit off the ear, swallowed it Then he fled. McCord and Lamone were attend ing an outing of the Morningslde club of Homestead when a difference arose and they engaged in a fist fight Mo Cord was getting the better of the argument when Lamone grabbed bis head and In an instant had nipped off his ear. He swallowed It In the ex citement of the battle. Deer Chews Tobacco. Springfield, Mass. Deer have taken to eating the tender leaves of tobacco plants in the Connecticut valley. The animals. It Is said, chew the tobacco with apparent relish. , 1 fCl mr.......-::,;: m I Farm and Factory WVSHINQTON. The farmer and the manufacturer shared about equal ly in the remarkable growth in ex ports which characterized the fiscal year recently ended. The total in crease was $304,000,000 when com pared with the immediately preceding year, being a larger gain than ever before shown in a single year of our export trade. Of this gain manufacturers as a whole supplied $140,000,000 cotton about $135,000,000; meats and dairy products about $19,000,000; corn, $10, 300,000; food animals. $1,500,000; flour.' about $2,500,000, while wheat shows a marked decline. Cotton is king In the exports of products of agriculture, the value ex ported during the year being $585,000, DOO in 1910, by far the largest total ever shown In the cotton export Corporations, Find WHILE the treasury department is not disposed to be unduly harsh with those corporations which have failed to file their returns within the specified time under the corporation tax law, provided the failure has not been due to a deliberate attempt to evade the statute, at the same time it Is no( given much leeway under the terms of the e&. That is why several bills have been Introduced In congress for the purpose of relieving delinquent corporations from the penalties of the law for the current year. Just why there Bhould be bo many delinquents it Is hard to understand, because this is the second year that the law has been in force, and the government officials think cor porations and their officers ought to be familiar with its provisions by this time. , The commissioner of Internal rev enue, who Collects the corporation tax. Is busy sending out letters to corpora tions and persons who write to learn how they can be relieved of the penal ties Imposed by the law. He does Spy Charge Arouses Army Officials THE war department for the first time In many years has a case of an alleged spy In the army. Capt James Watson, the army recruiting officer at Indianapolis, Ind., has in formed the department that he holds affidavits charging Private George Peters with being an Austrian secret agent ene of the papers in the possession of Captain Watson is an affidavit of Miss Clara A. Dyer. She said Peters waa stationed at Fort Totten, N. Y In the 135th company. Coast artillery corps, and that he was an Austrian spy sent to the United States to obtain the secret of manufacturing the pow erful explosive used by the United States government Miss Dyer as serted she had become engaged to Pe Danger in Dishonest Soda Fountains THE' soda water fountain Is as great a menace to femininity, In many cases, as the barroom to masculinity, according , to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the government pure food and drug expert Let It be understood that Dr. Wiley 1b not defending the barroom. While not a prohibitionist, he is "ter nlnst" Btrong drink. Dr. Wiley is not opposed to soda water In itself, nor to the gayly be decked fountains from which It Issues. He 1b strongly opposed to dangerous Ingredients which are hidden in the loam-covered glasses which are hand ed out to young and old alike. "I am a friend of the soda water man," Dr. Wiley said. . "The honest soda water man who sells real soda water la a godsend today. I would not part with him for the world. It "a the man who sells Injurious chemi cals and habit-producing drugs In soda water glasses' to whom I am op- ' posed and whom I would like to see driven out of business. "To be pure and healthy, soda wa ter should contain three Ingredients Share Export Gain trade, against $145,000,000 In 1910 and $481,000,000 in 1907, the former high record year. Meat and dairy products show a. total of about $150,000,00, against $131,000,000 last year, but materially less than in certain oarller years. In which the total ranged as high as $202,000,000 in 1907 and $211,000,000 la 1906. Food animals show a total of $13, 000.000, against a little less than $12, 000,000 last year, but much below the figures of earlier years, when the total figures of food animals exceeded $43, 000,000 In the high record of 1906. Flour amounted to about $50,000,000 In value, against $47,500,000 last year, but much less than in certain earlier years, the high record in flour exports in 1893 showing a total of $78,500,000. In manufactures the increase in the group "manufactures ready for con sumption" is about $100,000,000, and in the group "manufactures for further use in manufacturing" the Increase is $40,000,000. The increase in manufac tures is apparent in a large, number of articles. Agricultural implements, as a whole, show an increase of about $5,000,000. Tax . Law Is Strict not give them much encouragement, for the statute is stringent "' When a corporation neglects to make Its return March 1, 60 per cent is added automatically to the amount of the tax. This cannot be remitted by the commissioner, because the law specifically prescribes It But In addi tion to this increase of the tax a cor poration may also be fined for its neg lect This fine is in the discretion of he commissioner, and the law says it shall not be less than $1,000 or more than $10,000. Cases of fraud are pun ished more severely. The tax is doubled, and in addition to that the officer of a corporation who makes a false return may be convicted of a misdemeanor, fined $1,000 and Bent to Jail for a year. ters. The girl turned over a number of letters, In which he told of his plans. Peters' real name, she said, was Count Windisch-Graetz and his home Is at Prague, Bohemia. The country probably will keep tranquil in the face of the report that this Austrian spy has been examining its defenses and offenses for five years as a private in the army ranks. He is a fine specimen of the stable-minded spy. He gave the first fruits of his labors into the keeping of a woman. It Is suggested that the spy in the ranks, whose "steady company" gave him away, wants to learn how to make dunnlte, our most powerful explosive. He has been serving at posts where they neither make dunnlte nor use It Moreover, we have a well-defined thought that the Inventor of the dead ly stuff. Colonel Beverly W. Dunn, has safeguarded his secret Colonel Dunn Is a veteran of thirty-two years'' active service. He has thought, enough of the country and the army to give two sons into their keeping. '" pure fruit flavors, pure carbonated water and sugar, not saccharin or some other Injurious sweetening. To sell flavors that are made of chemi cals Instead of fruits is criminal. To begin with, what Is soda water? First of all, soda water does not and is not supposed to contain any soda. The name la a misnomer. A great deal of the stuff that Is sold under the name of soda water contains saccharin Instead of sugar. That should be pro hibited by law. Saccharin Is Injurious to every one and affects children seri ously. Much of the carbonated water that la mixed with the flavors con tains lead. Such a mixture should be prohibited by law. , '
