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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1912)
Toithef wmm rouse FEW CLEVER LITTLE TRICKS Ring Chase Each Other When Pa per la Turned to Right or Left Hoopa Change Poaitlona. There are some tricks that can be frlayed on a person's eyes which are pure Illusions. Hold this paper a foot or more from your eyes and turn It gently round tq the right or left, In mall circles, keeping your eyes fixed on the three small rings, as shown In the Illustration. As you move the' paper round like the hands of a watch you will find that the rings in these circles seem to chase each other in the same direc tion, and the longer and. more intent ly you look at it the faster they go. Circles can be made with spokes In them which to some persons seem to be going In the opposite direction to that in which the paper is turned, but the Illusion is not so perfect ualesr Chasing Rings, the circles are much larger than there la space for In this column. Another curious optical Illusion that has puzzled a great many persons who have tried to account for It is Also shown. If we suppose these to represent wire hoops which of them Is nearest you A or B? The answer is that it i the one you first make up your mind is nearest you. But now If you look steadily at It for a few moments your eyes will get tired of that idea and it will suddenly shift that hoop to the furthest away fr,om you, in pile of your wishing to keep it as it was, and after you have looked at Hoops Change Position. 4t in its new' position for a space it will go back again. If you do not decide which Is the nearest to you at first, but "Just look at Uie middle hoop steadily, you witl aee them one way, perhaps with A In front and toward you, and then A will suddenly go back and B will be In front. NOVEL NUT-CRACKING CUSTOM Nobody Hesitated to Take Advantage of Peculiar Privilege Allowed In -Olden Day. "The modern minister likes to have things quiet when he talks. It dis concerts him to hear a baby cry or a woman cough or an old man snore. If he is put out by such trifles as these It is interesting to . conjecture what he wouUPdo If he were to take liold of a congregation where every fcody brought nuts to crack during the sermon. Worshipers used to dp this In England, and even in our own states during colonial days. This dis turbance was not a weekly occurrence y any means; if It had been, the poor preacher would have undoubtedly left his congregation to administer spir itual consolation to suit themselves. But 88 it only happened once a year lie was forced to endure It This one day which was attended by such re markable license came the Sunday fcefore Michaelmas day , and was callnd crack-nut Sunday. Nobody, no matter how pious he might be. hesi tated to avail himself of the peculiar privilege granted him, and men. women and children came to church with their pockets stuffed with nuts, which they complacently cracked and munched during the sermon. It can "be easily imagined that when forty or fifty people get to cracking nuts with all their might the noise is apt to he something terrific, and many times the minister was hard put to It to "hear himself think." The cus tom, from being regarded with high favor for many years, finally came to be looked upon as a nuisance, and .in the beginning of the present century the habit was suppressed, although the act of suppression was attended with considerable difficulty, so firmly tiad the nut-cracking fever taken hold f the fancy of the people. HAD PHONOGRAPHS IN EGYPT Report Are That Babylonian Tablet . Also Showe That the Wlrelesa ; Telegraph Was Known. "We think we are a great people," said the retired army officer, taking off his glasses, "and we feel that we are progressing at a tremendous pace, but here's a newspaper account say ing that the French government has unearthed in Babylonia 45,000 tablets, giving a history In full of the reign of the ancient kings. Here we find for the first time that Babylon, and not Rome, was the real 'Mother of Laws.' In those days there was a system of courts and of appeals that even sugested a recall. Sir, this re port also states that in the days of Nebuchadnezzar they had a free rural delivery of mail over every highway In the kingdom. And shades of Grover Cleveland! It has also been proved beyond a doubt that the Egyp tian government in 4,500 B. C, had a perfected system of civil service. There is a record that the first tur bine engine was invented by the Egyptians, and that Archimedes de vised this mechanical contrivance by which the fields could be watered when the Nile was low. This is the same principle that is used to drive the latest additions to the Cunarders." What shocked the doughty old American most of all, says the Na tional Magazine, was the informa tion that four thousand years ago the phonograph was used in ancient Egypt, and was in reality only per fected by Edison In the nineteenth century. There is evidence also of the use of wireless telegraphy before the Christian era, while the Egyp tla alphabet has proven to be a sci entific key to organized human speech. it is a hard blow to our self-sufficiency to find that the banjo of the southern plantation with its fascinating "thrum" only echoes .the musical In struments used by Egyptians in pre historic times. Rata and the Plague. There is a theory that the old brown rats aided the spread of plague in Europe, because the fleas which infest them are more likely te take up their abode on human beings than are the parasites of the Norway rat. This is hardly demonstrated be yond the fact that the cessation of plague epidemics in England and west. em Europe was about coincident with tne Norway rat invasion. It seems to have been proved in California that the gray rats can spread the infection. Dut u tne black rats spread It faster, we may yet be brought to concede some good In the erav Norwnv m pest that has heretofore driven out its older brother. Kind Treatment Pays. At a Kansas agricultural experiment station the results of treating anlnials with kindness were recently demon strated to be of the most practical character. Three cows were selected, and at first treated with the utmost care and gentleness, with the result that they produced thlrty-slx pounds of milk containing 4.3 per cent, of butter fat. The same cows were then frightened by their attendants howling at them, letting dogs bark at them, etc., with the result that they produced only twenty-three pounds of milk, con taining only 3.4 per cent of butter fat. Oldest Newspaper. The "Tchlng Pab," which Is the offl cial gazette of Peking, and has Just celebrated Its thousandth anniversary, is the oldest newspaper in the world! Ever since its Inception, a copy of each issue has been carefully pre served in the archives of the Peking palace. Accuracy has always been the keynote of his paper, and, in sev der to maintain Its high standard, sev eral Journalists on Its staff in the past paid the penalty of mistakes with their lives. Dismissal, and, at the worst, Imprisonment, is the punish ment meted out at present. New York Alimony Club. The Alimony club in New York, a name adopted by a coterie of men who are undergoing imprisonment there for default in payment of allow ances to wives from whom they have separated, held a banquet In Jail on Christmas day. Twelve sat down to a good repast, two of them having come back for the occasion, after re covering their liberty only two day before. The popular song, "I Won der Who's Kissing Her Now," waa sung durlnj every toast, and "Our Un fortunate Successors" was , received hilariously. The Universe an Accident The universe, together with Its parts, is nothing but a number of ac cidents, ever changing and being re newed at every breath and linked to gether in a single substance and at each instant disappearing "and being replaced by a similar set. In conse quence of this rapid succession, the spectator is deceived Into the belief that the universe Is a permanent ex istence. By Nur Addln 'Abd Alrah man Janil. mm NO big-game-hunter will deny, I think, the difficulties that at tend the shooting of mountain sheep.' To the so-called sports- , man who gauges his suc cess by the number of beads se cured, irrespective of their value, it cannot, of course, anneal: but to tha hunter-naturalist, who can enjoy and appreciate the wild and imposing country in which his quarry lives, and finds his greatest pleasure in pitting his own skill and cunning against those of a worthy foe, this form ot shooting yields a most exciting, if arduous, sport But today the number oi mountain Bheep is fast diminishing, and it is exceedingly difficult in Ameri ca to find and obtain a good, or even moderate, head without an extraordi nary amount of traveling and hunting even then success is not assured while the short open season for sheep presents an added obstacle. Nor is such a trip by any means inexpensive, for American guides have a wav of charging for their services which Is altogether out of proportion of their value. Mountain 6heen. however, can tm found in the very northwest of Mexi co, around the head of the Gulf of California, in Lower California and rarely in Chihuahua. Further south tney cannot go, for the torrid heat and waterless desert of the Tlerra Callente (hot country m-event thpir further progress. .,, Therefore this re gion rorms tne vanishing point of the genus Ovis in America, and the study of these sheep is all the more Inter esting on that account, writes I. N. Dracopoli in Country Life. Of the mountain sheep found in Mexico there are four species or sub species: The Ovis mexicanus, whos type locality is the Lake Santa Maria district In Chihuahua; the Ovis cana densis gaillardl of the Pinacate moun tains in Sonora; and the Ovis nelsonl and . Ovis cervlna ' creinnobates of Lower California. 'The first-named of these Is now. almost extinct, for they used to Inhabit a country which was plentifully supplied with water and easily accessible, and they were soon almost exterminated by so-called "sportsmen." They are distinguished by the large size of their ears and molar teeth, while their forehead Is noticeably less concave than that of the typical Ovis canadensis. These sheep have been rightly, I think, de scribed as a new species; but the oth er three are only sub-species or local varieties of the true Ovis canadensis typicus. It would be tedious, there fore, to go fully into the minute pe culiarities that differentiate thera from the well known Rocky Mountain 6heep, as they are of Interest only to the zoologist, and not to the big game hunter. There Is cne point, however,, that makes the Ovis canadensis gail lardl a particularly fine trophy, and that is the remarkable bulk of the horns, which are much bigger nn i more massive in comparison with the bodily 6lze of the animal than those of the sheep in Wyoming and the north. Not Wild or Shy. At present in the Pinacate moun tains and in the Sierra del Pozo In Sonora there Is a large number of them, and tliey are not very wild or shy, as they have not been much mo lested by the Indians and not ut all by the white man, for the country is unknown, and has a bad tame owing to its extreme aridity. . in the daytime and during hot weather the sheep are always found high up in the mountains. Tbey come down to feed during the night, but Invariably return to the rocky ledges and precipitous cliffs, which are. their favorite haunts, soon after dawn. Here they bed down In the niches of tbe lava or under some overhanging boulder for tbe rest of tbe day; and so well does their coloring harmonize with their surroundings that not even the trained eyesight of the Indian can detect them.- Tbe hunter must, there fore, be early In tbe field. He should. If possible, camp high up the nioup tains Id the sheep country, lor this will give him the best chance of uc cess. When these animals are moving about they are not difficult to ftp tnr their white rump patch is most con spicuous and can be detected at a great distance. The "secret of success Is not to be in a hurry. Like nearly an omer animals, they have always a sentinel on the look-out when they are feeding, generally a ewe, and the hunter's chief aim should be to spot tnis animal and avoid being seen by It He should then take a careful note of the country, and by proceeding siowiy and cautiously, and by keeping in the shadows If possible, he should be able to approach them easily enough and select the best head. There is another point that should be remem bered, and that is that the sheen when frightened nearly always try to escape down the mountain-side, so that they should be approached, whenever the wind allows of it, from below. Owing to the scarcity of all other food, the ruminants of this country have to depend almost entirely on the cacti and the young shoots and green bark of the mesqulte and paloverde trees for sustenance. Tbey tte also very partial to the ocotlllo (Fouqulera splendens), and when the latter begin to flower late In April, the sheep come down from the mountains to the edee of the plains and feed almost entirely on them. This diet seems to agree with thera excellently, for they are always in the best of condition at this time of year. I do not know of any animals, either in Africa or America, whose meat is so delicious to eat, and It Is far nicer than that of the prong horn antelope, which is much prized by the Mexicans. The dryness of the climate in the Sonora desert is largely responsible for the way pome of the horns are split at the ends, which often spoils an otherwise perfect head and reduces its length by two to four inches. It has the same effect on one's finger nails, whih become very brittle and split or break at the slightest provo cation. The horns of the old rams are especially dry, and are often much worn and scarred on their upper sur face, as can be seen in the photo graph of the biggest ram we shot; but this Is due to the blows they receive when fighting among themselves head to head. Mountain sheep are not the on' trophy that can be secured In this In tcrestlng country, for Its fauna is al most as remarkable as its flora, and many species are confined to this lo cality and are not found elsewhere. Among game animals are the puma (Fells concolor) and , a little-known species of Jaguar the "tlgre" of the Mexicans the bay lynx (L. ruffa), a local variety of the Texas collareci peccary (D. anfiulatus sonorlensis). the black and the white tailed deci and the pronghorn antalope. One of the principal charms o; hunting In this country Is the variet) of scenery met with. For the deei are found In abundance In the Santa Catallna mountains, among the pinet--and silver, birches of the beautiful Canada del Oro. In the foot-hills lynx puma and the black-tailed deer can generally be found, but here the scene Is finite different and the vegetation becomes more characteristic. Hunting Is illlncult, as there Is but little covei and days pass often without a chanc for a shot. It would be Impossible in a shori article to describe in detail the -van oua animals that live In the Sonon desert, or to mention the best .hum Ing-grounds. It Is undoubtedly thi illicit game country in the southwps today, as it has been untouched, am therefore unspoiled, by the ordlnan traveler. But although big game I plentiful, good trophies are not se cured without hard work and much patience. The heat Is Intense an! water Is very scarce In parts nb-o lutcly non existent, o that no ' onr rhuuld contemplate a hunting trip t the F'nora desert unless he Is pre pared to fnce discomfort and probabl) actual hardship. Might Be the' Fact Burglar who broke Into a fart! fiat recently removed aU the fashion-; able pannier dresses belonging to thai mistress of the house and left a num ber of old skirts. "The police," ay a Paris correspondent, "suspect a. fashion expert" We, on the other hand, are inclined to wonder if the burglary wa not committed by the lady's husband, who may easily have been a simple-hearted fellow who wished to see his wife becomingly dressed for a week or two. By stander; Red Cross Ball Blue, all blue, best blulnir value In Uia whole world, makes the laundress smile. Keeping Water Ccld. If you are in the habit of taking a pitcher of iced water to your room on retiring, try this: Procure a square pasteboard box (with lid), sufficiently large to hold your pitcher, and give It two or three coata of varnish on the outside, allowing each coat to dry thoroughly. Place your pitcher of wa ter In this box on retiring, putting the Hd on tightly, and you are sure of having cold drinking water any hour of the night. Long Courtships. Young ladies In Russia are not nt all averse to long engagements, and use all sort of artifices to stave ol the wedding day as long as possible; but in no country In the world are court ships so abnormally long as in Bohe mia, where engagements commonly last from 15 to 20 years. In fact, there recently died there, at Ihe age of ninety-nine, an old man who had been courting for 75 years, and who was marrl"' on ' ''. kpj. - Before or After. "I thought that in the 15 years of my practice of medicine," said a phy Elcian, "I had answered almost every possible foolish question, but a new one was sprung on mo rece-tly. A youns man cane ia with an inflamed eye, for which I prescribed liniment to be dropped into the eye three times a day. He left the surgery, but re turned In a few minutes, poked his head In the doorway, and asked: "Shall I drop yils in the eye before meals, or affpr?" Oiling Shoes. The best way to keep black leather shoes from looking worn, and also from breaking, is to dip a small flan nel rag In olive oil and rub it into the leather; If It needs further rub bing or wiping, take a fresh, dry flannel rag and go over it This method is good for the woman in mourning, aa it keeps her footwear black without polishing it, and provides a dulled fin ish. x Making Opportunity. When the young physician's motor car reached the scene of the accident there was nothing to do; all the vic tims had been so slightly hurt that they were able to walk home. The young doctor was keenly disappoint ed, but his chauffeur spoke up cheer lngly: "Never mind, doctor. I'll run down some business on the way home," Some Proof. "So he took you out auto riding the other evening?" "Yes, what of It?" "Do you think be Is in love with you?" "I think so. I know that every time I spoke to him the auto tried to climb a tree or Jump a fence." Houston Post ' Perhaps. A Boston minister has Jumped into the spotlight by making the statement that American women wear too many clothes at summer resorts. This la the last objection we expected a min ister to make. Perhaps the women whom he observed are Inclined to freckle. ' The Difference. When a man falls on a bit of orange peel, the first thing he does is to look back to see what it was; but the first thing a woman does is to look around to see If b" - - ""ho Tatler Sterne once said that the most ac complished way of using books is to serve them as some do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their ac quaintance. REGULATE STIMULATE PHR1EV WE BOWELS" THE UVER 'THE BLOOD T ALU DRUGGISTS BmI Ccirh Syrup. Tuta Good. Um in nil, Sold br Drnrilitt.