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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1912)
The Old Wagon Show. The wagon show of long ago, IV bai tunny clown; we lined the way a break of day to see it into town. Ou money went to the last cent to get ui boys inside. But what of that? Foi tours we sat with eyes distended wide The wagon show of long ago, It onlj bad one ring, and we could sit close ti . It, and never miss a thing. Water In bltlmr b adulteration (?1m mrui i trr make liquid blue costly. Buy Red Croaa Ball uiue. niaaea ciouiea winter man mow. , Laughter Like a Bombshell. One good, hearty laugh Is a bomb shell exploding In the right place, while spleen and discontent aro a gun that kicks over the man who shootr It off. De Witt Talmage. BILIOUS TRY A BOTTLE Or Hostetter's Stomach Bitters It acts directly on . the S'omach, Liver and Bowels stim ulates them in the proper perform ance of their duties keeps the bow els free from Con stipation assists digestion and REALLY KEEPS YOU WELL Health and Cheer. There is longevity In the sunny soul that eases our Jolts and makes our sides shake with laughter. There Is a wonderful medicinal efTect In good cheer. Good news and iglad tidings have a magic effect even upon Inva lids. We often see a whole store or factory or home transformed by one sunny soul On the other hand, we have seen them blighted and made dark by a gloomy, morose, fault-finding person. Pass the Bouquets Now. Never, never wait for post-mortem praise. Speak the kind words which love prompts, and remember that words of loving kindness are the best possible tonic which can be given, ven to the happiest of the mortals.-" Kate Tannatt Woods. Clocks the Late Mikado's Hobby. Small clocks were the hobby of Mut suhito, the late emperor of Japan. He took the greatest interest In small time-pieces of every kind and collect d so many of them that every room In his palace heard their tiny tick fng. Cleaning Waste Pipes. Waste pipes may be cleaned of soap And slime by placing a handful o! common salt In the bottom of the basin over night. The salt will grad tially melt and the first flush of water In the morning will clear the pipe. V- Can Cet Allen's fool-rase TREE. Write Allen 8. Olmsted. Le Roy; N. Y.. for a fruo .ample of Allen's Foot-Katie. It cures wealing hot swollen, aching feet. It makef new or light shoes easy. A cortaln euro for corns, ingrowing nails and bunions. All drug issoinL iioo. Don't accent any substltuts Eight Who Deserve Slapi. Eight men who deserve to be slap- fed on the face: He who despises a man of power; be who enters a house uninvited and un welcomed; he who gives orders in a house not his own: he who takes a seat above his post- tlon; he who speaks to one who does not listen to htm; he who intrudes on the conversation of others; he who seeks favors from the ungenerous, and he who expects love from his ene mies. From a Persian Saying. FOR ALL EYE PAINS . When Is a Man Old? A man of 70 writes to the New York Times to complain because a reporter referred to a man of 60 as "aged." To the cub reporter it seems all right to rerer to a man of BO as "venerable." Boston Globe. . FOR SPRAINS. C. M. North, BUks, Arls.. writest "I kanbwinilngMexirsa Mustang-Lln-Imeat for spraiawi foot with mil rasuhs. It's aa awful line remedy for such ailments." ft penetrates quickly, remoret mil inUua- irsis sum nonces Cos tmUiag. Ue.M.tltU4DnWlSt MAKING USE OF WASTE LAND Cogent Thoughts on Subject That Is , Being Forced on the Attention of the People. . A genuinely civilized country eco nomically speaking, at least is one whose land Is divided into small hold lngs, each of which supports its own family. This is the land's final, sta tlonary stage, so to SDeak The sort of thing one sees, for instance, in the smiling, truly prosperous provinces of France. The French lend money to all the world. They are perhaps the most prosperous of Deonles. A country divided into such small self- sufficient holdings Is defended in the strongest way against financial explosions and shipwrecks. What ever may be the zest of cow-punching or tne charm of the old-fashioned plantation life, no state can' be said to have reached social maturity when It is composed of large holdings and Its inhabitants are denendent on the financial ups and downs of the few. The swamp lands of the United States are particularly good examples of this sort of backwardness. They are useful for nothing but timber, and oftentimes not for that. Anything more unsocial or desolate than a southern cypress swamp it would be difficult to imagine. Yet those who are interested in the tremendously important question of swamo drain age often meet with a curious local opposition. In addition to the obvious mechanical difficulties and the tangle of state lines. Owners do not want to break up their large holdings, even though 'the value of the land will be vastly improved. . They have been big landholders for generations.' and big landholders they wish to remain, even though much of their land be worthless. It Is a tradition of Drehidipn rn which the tendency of the aee Is od- posed. However far or near Socialism mav be, there is no doubt that in a broad sense of the word we are becomine every day more social. This may now be a matter of taste. It will presently be a matter of necessity. People will have to touch one another whether they like It or not. For there Is .less and less elbow room Officer'. Weekly. Origin of Vaudeville. Writing to the Kansas Citv Star .,. cerning the origin of the word vau deville, Raymond . Weeks, professor of romance languages at Colombia unl- varauy, says "tne-word is. derived from the Vaux de Vire fth'vnip nf Vtre), a village In Normandy. unver Basselin was a EYnnph not who resembled Robert Biirnn ami vin lived at Vaux de Vire in the fifteenth century. He wrote many popular songs, largely Jolly drinking songs. These spread far beyond the obscure hamlet where he lived, until, finally, the name of Vaux de Vire, by which mey were known, not being under stood, they and similar flnn era ttrava called Vaux de Ville. They are men tioned Dy Holleau in his Art Poetlque. Early in the eiehteenth France, such songs were interspersed to vary light operettas, which later were called by their name. The songs of Basselin In praise of cider and wine are probably the finest of their sort In any language. "As for the fact that We hAVA tfllron vaudeville from the Frpnrh lot observe that most of our Important terms relating to the theater came into English from French." Bird's Nest In Human Skull. A bird has built its neBt in a hum skull lying in a vault beneath a church at Rothwell. NorthamDtonnhiro Cn.. land. Apparently the bird entered the vault through the ventilator and aftex selecting the largest cranium among the rows of skulls on the shelves pro ceeded to enlarge a hole, which had probably been made orlelnallv h battleax. New York Sun. Made It Diamonds. Mrs. Percy V. Pennypacker, the new president of the General Federation nf Women's Clubs, said in San Francisco or the "new woman:" "My type of new woman has a high sense of honor, a manly sense of hon or. She isn't like a certain old-fashioned type of woman who does dis honorable things without the least no tion of their being so. "A woman of this type was playing bridge. Her partner passed the make to her. and she made It diamond hn her hand, on being put down, 'was rouna to contain only two diamonds, both very low cards. " 'What on earth induced you to go diamonds on such a hand as that?' her partner asked. " 'It's your fault.' she answered pet ulantly. 'Why did you twiddle you diamond ring?'" Anticipating a Relapse. Doctor Well. WO Vft Till 11 oH ' wmi through after hard work. Yon' h. a terrible shock. I Patient Yes. doctor and l'u h... another when 1 get your bill i -. '.If1-:' ' Pi ' . ' ri ' ' ' H I - y ' - Fl COLUMN W OT far away Is the famous res- I Wit taurant of the Smoking Dog, I 1 wll08 dingy portrait Is easily ) overlooked In Its decadence.. . in tnis section, too, u you search long and faithfully or are lucky at the start, ycu will find another of the hanging signs over ancient tav erns. It Is a bunch of grapes, gilded and . worn away, suspended 'over the sidewalk on an ornamental iron brack et .. . . These are survivals from a time long forgotten, but modern Paris has delightful, parallels. Nor are they en tirely devoid of historic interest of their own, for the cafe on the Place de la Bastile known as "The Cannon of the Bastile". haB historic associa tions surely. . Even the great tin can non which surmounts Its glass covered red terrace Is the replica of one used by the populace in storming the Bas tile. , And speaking of revolutions, what can tell a more romantic history than the washerwoman's signs of Paris? Painted on tin and crudely finished, to be sure, still they are nothing less than the tricolor of France, the stand ard of the republic. -What a story it is that the national ensign, as Jealous ly guarded as the stars and stripes, should serve as a trade sign for the laundries! ' But remember the story of the revolution and the meetings in laundry shops at -night and remember Mme. Sans Gene, the washerwoman who become a princess was it not? In Paris one can never pass under that stiff tin draped flag, usually sadly faded, and glance at the tolling wom en Inside the windows without remem bering the pranks of the royal laun dress and understanding the flag. The fashion of hanging signs In Paris depends largely on the quarter of the city, and in some proud sections there are no tin flags over the laun dries and no strips of red cloth swung to the breeze at each end of the dye shops. But In no single section of the capital Is missing the sign of the barbers. Parisian Ideas of mercantile adver tising go back to the middle ages, when there were no show windows and no reading public and the height of progresslveness was expressed In a golden symbol of" the tradesmen hung outside the house wherein he lived and traded. In Paris' Busy Center. The hanging shop sign has a cold efficiency about it after all. It tells all that needs to be known. It serves another purpose also the preserva tion ofthe atmosphere of the pictur esque. In the old streets you can find many of the ancient signs yet and some mod ern examples besides. The really old signs are few and far between, but walks in the historic quarters bring you to them and warm your heart with their sight You are sure to hunt first Jot, the old tavern Elgns, which you hope to find still swinging over dingy cafes, and if you are lucky you will find half a dozen in all Paris. Over in the Ma rals, the aristocrats quarter of two centuries ago, you Will find most of those left At one little corner, for in stance, Is the sign of "The Armed Man" crudely executed in cast iron, the man In full armor sitting astride a cannon of historic type. . About him twist iron vines and leaves, giving him true artlstlo company In bis on- Of iULY tiring invitation to you to come and drink' the excellent wine within , Nearer the heart of things and swept by the currents of the busiest center of Paris, the Halles, or public markets, is another sign you can find easily, though It, too, Is flat agalnBt the tran som, space above the door. It would seem at first glance to have been a church piece, but It Is only a manifes tation of the religious feeling of the first proprietor, who placed on the iron grating a holy Infant with shep herd's crook and a sheep or two dully gilded to this day. It Is the barters who use the golden balls as a sign here, golden balls with a magnificent switch of horsehair hanging down below and swinging iherrlly to the breeze. The reason for the horsehair Is obvious, but you will likely puzzle long over the gold en ball until you notice that some bar bers do not use the ball but Instead a queerly shaped, almost flat piece oi brass, which In time you decide must be the barber's bowl.. The ball was more decorative than the bowL The Jewelers of Paris hang out clocks as in America, but not one in a hundred of them runs. In Paris, too, the Jeweler's little brother, the op tician, bangs out a pair of spectacles as in America, But here this sign is quite conventionalized, the rim of the glasses, the bridgepiece and all being made of brass tubing an Inch thick and the two eyepieces are of red and blue glass. In Front of the Hat Store. The old fashioned hatters of Paris cling faithfully to a sidewalk slen in the form of the glowing curves of ths men nat or a centurv aen. This nr. tide of gent's furnishings nnlntori brignt red, with a yellow band and a yellow cockade, 1b to be found every where in Paris, the only variation be ing the red palmer's hat of the clergy supply houses and attempts of mod ern establishments to replace It with models of ugly up to date derbies, of colossal size. , ' Another modernization Is seen now and then in the way of bootmakers' signs. The conventional old style sign Is a caTved and gilded wooden boot of classic lines. The modern trav esty Is an up to the minute American shoe of the brogan type, ' also of carved wood or papier mache perhaps, gilded till It shines again. Glove stores and haberdashers and notion shops generally announce their business by means of giant gloves sus pended over their doors. These signs, like all the rest, are either attached' to the signs directly over tho - - www. a j i are suspended from Iron aunnnrt. . tending from the second story wall. umDrena stores hang out tin umbrel las, usually opened and painted red. Immense gold scissors lery stores, and giant pincers, over grown pianes and the druggists' mor tar and pestle advertise their trades. Paint stores hang out palettes with brushes stuck through the thnmh v,i- or merely squares of sheet iron paint ed diagonally witlj bars of brilliant colors. Florists banc out a iiiiani.t. ed gilded wreath and the thousands of locksmitns are known by Immense golden keys. Usually tha Vv. ... the typical French sort, which feel quite as ouiky as the signs look to be, but the modern touch is found Ijere! too, for. some hang out keva nf t,l flat i Made His Demands Definite. - The ''minimum wage" idea appeal! to one English boy who was' asked the other day by his teacher to write, as the daily composition, a letter to his father asking for an increase in pock et money. The boy set forth the need of large (unda, and ended with a courteous demand for a "minimum urn of money." - One of the reasons !ortbe demand was that the boy did not get enough taffy to eat and had no papers to read. . Absent-Minded Professor. !A certain university professor was noted for bis absent-mindedness. One morning as he sat at the breakfast ta ble with a scientific magazine prop ped up before him, his wife was aston ished to see' him reach out for the naple sirup, pour it down his, back, ind lean over and scratch his pan :ake. ' Don't bur water for blutnsr. Llqu'4 "blue Is al. tioatall water. Buy Ktd Cross Ball tiue. th aiua that's ail blue. A Colossal Scheme. The great highway of the commerce f the future will be the Paciflc ocean. Mighty capitalists throughout the irorld am nnftlnr their Vienria toirottior :o erect the most colossal system for tireless telegraphy'in ths world. The jystera contemplates the linking to jether of all points along the western joast of America from Bering sea to ;he Straits of Magellan, arid spanning :he isles of the ocean, to link with this :haln the whole easterly. there of Asia, running on down to the Straits Settlements. The contemplate! sys tem will cost in the aggregate many millions of dollars. ''.. Rumanian Amazons. M. Vechiu, the superintendent of a large farm at Buzco, Rumania, was at tacked by an army of E0 women, enva a Bucharest correspondent M. Vechiu had refused to allow their cows to graze on his land and to frighten th.e deputation away he had fired over the heads of. the women. Tnfiirtntrf tha milkmaids rusned upon him and It was only by the intervention of some shep herds that he was rescued from theii 'engeance. Hard Times. "Well," said Hlnkley affably to thi eld countryman to whom he was giv ing lift over the highway, "how'i fa 'ng around here?" "Bad." said thf )untryman, "powerful bad. Whal" wi( 1the farm hands tnrnln' shutters and the farmers turnln' garragers. farralh' sort of went out o' fashl'D. Harper's Weekly. When Wrinkles Come. The first wrinkle of ase cornea n the side of the cheek Just in front of the ear and its possessor is. aa a ruin the last person to notice It. Just be- nind the ear there is usually a falling off of the roundness of the neck, and the hair becomes thin, leaving a haM look on the woman over 40 If she is not careful to remedy these important blemishes. Massaze will do mora fnr these growing Imperfections than al most any other facial defect. SUFFERED EVERYTHING For Fourteen Years. Restored To Health by Lydia E. 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