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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1913)
HIS PROFITABLE FARM LONG A FAILURE, BUT AT LAST BROUGHT AFFLUENCE. Visitor of Importance Spends a Day in the House WASHINGTON. It didn't make a bit of difference to Benjamin Oswald Johnson, aged Biz, what was going on around his little head the other afternoon. He was busy with his own devlcesT This young Ben Johnson stumbled around-the floor of the House of Representatives, while the real Ben Johnson, from Kentucky, and other legislators and statesmen thundered and argued over the legis lative, executive and Judicial appro priation bill. Little Ben Is one of the Ave' chil dren of Representative Joseph John eon of South Carolina. He kept the House of Representatives amused from noon until 4:39 o'clock p. m.. when the gavel fell for adjournment Strange Sounds Come from Smithsonian Building IF you are passing across the front of the Smithsonian Institution at midnight and hear strange cries com ing from the Byzantine, Norman or rounded Gothic towers, buttresses, battlements, groined arches and cornices, keep your nerve. The moon may be floating through the southern sky. Now It will be hidden under dense cloud masses, and then It will burst through the black mist and cast Us silver sheen over the heavens and the earth. Against all this, the long red sandstone buildings, dark but for a watchman's lamp In the central ves tlbue, will be submitted. It looks gloomy and lonesome. Tou can' reassure yourself that you are not . in the depths of a haunt ed forest and before some dismal medieval castle by looking northward to catch the glitter of the lights In the post office tower ' The sounds that have stopped you, and It may be, chilled you, come from not mortals but from bats. There are many of these aberrant Insec tlvorae or flying mammals, family Cigarette Smoking Under Ban of Censorship Wf HAVE KADFNOUCH CICARETTf WOHWC CIGARETTE smoking by women has come under the ban of cen sureshlp by society women In Wash ington, who are leading a crusade against smoking and drinking in the social set at the capital. Mrs. William H. Haywood, who put herself on record several years ago, when she served only grape juice at the debutante ball of her daughter, Miss Doris Haywood, Is one of the 'leaders In the antl-cigarette move ment, and is said to not permit wom en to smoke In her house. Mrs. Levi Z. Letter, who many think Is to be the social leader In place of the late Mrs. John R. Mc Lean, has also declared her willing Ice Skating a Real Fad THAT part of Washington society which delights In outdoor winter sports has started a movement to dis cuss the ways and means of promot ing Ice skating. To that end Invita tions were sent out by a committee of Interested men and women for a meeting which was held in the ban quet hall of one of the large hotels. It Is hoped the feeble efforts of "Jack Frost" In Washington may be supple mented and real Ice skating provided for those who wish. The tidal basin at the foot of the Washington monument Is unsafe at best, and then there are only a few days' skating on It through the win ter. Last year the time was extended somewhat because of the almost un precedented cold weather In, this re gion. There are many expert skaters In Washington, who come from all parti of the world. Among those Interested In the propect is Major Henry T. Allen, whose wife was Miss Johnstone of Chicago. Major Allen is also an ex pert horseman, and with his daugh- Ben appeared on the house' floor at noon dressed In a dark blue sailor buIL His father had troubles of his own, for he is in charge of the legis lative bill, and Representative Fow ler, with his loudest voice, was out after the scalps of several of the Items in that bill. While Representative Fowler was being replied to by Rep resentative Johnson, Little Ben was playing tag around his father's legs, going In and out between them In most marvelous- fashion. - Toung Ben Interviewed pretty near ly every member of the house. He didn't wait for an Introduction, but clambered right Into the laps of the country's law makers. From the Democratic side he would hop to the Republican end of the chamber and pull out the watches of his father's dearest political toes, "just to hear the wheels tick." Uncle Joe Cannon con tributed to Ben's war chest to the ex tent of a silver, coin, and at the end of the day Ben's fists were bulging with nickels, dimes and quarters, which had been pressed upon him by admiring friends. galloplthecldae, order of chiroptera. In the shadowy nooks of the Smith sonian building. Satisfied that no barm Is near, you fall to thinking of James Smlthson's bequest of 1826; of James Renwlck. the designer of this building, the first of Its style not ecclesiastic, to ,be reared in the United States; your glance goes up to the top of the tallest tower 145 feet above the asphalt,, all strewn with dead leaves, and your mind goes back to the time when President ,. Polk and his. cabinet and hundreds of proud men, now dust, at tended the cornerstone laying In 1847. ness to aid the crusaders against feminine cigarette smoking. Mrs. John.B. Henderson, who Is. the arbiter of dancing and dancers in Washington, has always been opposed to the practice. It Is said she re quested a fair smoker to go outside. Lady Alan Johnston, daughter ol Mrs. James Plnchot, is one of the de fenders of the weed, and smokes when and wherever It strikes her fancy. Lady Johnston struck the first note In the battle some time ago, when she offered her cigarette case to oth er guests at a luncheon. The hostess was a crusader, and Is said to have requested Lady Johnston, who hap pened to be the guest of honor, not to smoke. Mrs. Franklin MacVeagh, who has recently completed her million-dollar palace on Sixteenth street, has pro vided little balconies from her bah room windows for the men to smoke between dances. It the lady guests wish to smoke they- have to go out side also. in Society ters, the Misses Jeannette and Desba Allen, takes an active part In the Hunt club of this city. The secretary of the navy, George von L. Meyer, Is another of the promoters of the scheme to "build" an Ice pond. The Meyer family la from Massachusetts, where nature, unassisted, keeps win ter sports going for months. , The daughters of the secretary and Mrs. Meyer are adepts In skating, which they learned In their native state, and In which they bad a chance to exer cise when they were living In St Petersburg, to which capital their father formerly was accredited by the state department at Capital loo sensitive is Elo.se If s "fcy in I must say . J scolded hev Lsit rujhi" and she's Au bvoKen pp INTERESTING TRICK TO PLAT Board Projecting Over Table and Cov ered With Newspaper Cannot Be Knocked to Floor. Take an ordinary board, two or three feet long, such as a bread board, ind place It on the table so that about one-third of Its length will project Jver the edge. Unfold a newspaper ind lay It on the table over the board, ays the Popuplar Mechanics. Any ne not familiar with the experi ment would suppose the board could e knocked off by hitting It on the Juter end, It would appear to be easy io do, but try It Unless you are pre pared to break the board you proba bly will not be able to knock the board jft. - . The reason Is that when the board Is struck It forces the other end up and the newspaper along with It This :auses a momentary vacuum to be Formed under the paper, and the pres sure of the air above, which la about Sfteen pounds to the square inch, pre sents the board from coming up. This Is an entertaining trick to play at an rvening party, and also makes a sim ple and Interesting experiment SKATEMOBILE FOR THE BOYS Vouths of Eastern City Becoming Ex pert In Inventing Means of Easy and Fast Locomotion, Philadelphia bava are eettlnv h experts In the Invention of vehicles for their play.. FUfst it was the push mobile, then the coasting stick and now it is the skatftmnhlla- whloh .... boy can make for himself in a little wnne. 'lane an old roller skate and The Skatemobile. cut it In two crosswise. Take a strip of stout wood about four feet long ind three inches wide and null a nalr of wheels under each end. -Nail an empty box In the center of the board and fasten a stick across the top of that box, to act as a pair of handles on eitner side. This vehicle can be made to turn corners when the boy Is coasting on It If he will lean toward the side he wants to turn in mit kating. Some boys cut a bole In the irum o me oox, set a piece of glass In It and burn a candle Innlrln at night Wadswortta Was Counting His Wsd "Oh, Mrs. Huhb!" eiplnlmri vr 3oodthlng to the young Boston matron. l rememDered it was little Wads worth's birthday, so I hrnncht Mm o sf those old-fashioned children's pan us, the kind we used to drop the joins down the chimney of a little red tin house, with green blinds paint id on It, you remember? Children lave always loved them so." "So very kind of you," replied Mrs. Hubb frigidly. "You will find Wads worth in his toy. office, playing with lis new cash register." Woman's Home Companion. Terrible Enough. Teacher What was the reign of ter ror. Pupil PleaBe. miss, It was the lood In the Bible. r I Drummer's Successive Speculation! ss to How It Was Brought About ' Failed to, Come Anywhere Near the Facts. They were traveling nn h, ed. and as the curling smoke rose from their clears to tha i r .v.. car they began to compare notes as to ousineBS. "Things nrettv rnni in ,. it-.. . . D au UUI HUD , asked the hardware drummer, with a giance at his companion, a little man with a chin whisker that caused him to look very much like the cartoon ist's Ideal of Uncle Sam. "Very good fact Is, never better,-" returned the llttln man -or. i in. deed that I am now on my way to "w one with my family, where next Saturday we ara tn t.irn . .,.n.o. - Europe. I propose to rest over there lUB next nve years on this year's profits." - "Fine!" cried the other. "You must nave struck It rich. What was it gold mine In your hark vnrie" "Well sort of," smiled the little man. it came along Just at the right time, too. Up tp a month ago I was what you ml?ht ii nn n.. .... edge hangin' on by my eyelids. - as .v wcro. ive neen losln' money year after year for goln' on ten years. No matter how hard I worked there was always a loss here or a loss there that wined nilt nit fhnnroa nf profit, until at last even the little cap- iuu i nao left in reserve was gone. I Was face to fare with mln TOn.-.r of all, the banks had seen how things were goin' with me the country bank, you know, la sizin' a feller un ami i n..Mn k- borrer, or steal a dime to help me uuu it was a pretty tough situation for a man with a nrir. .v.- .. . vj nuu kill cc daughters.'" "I should say so," said the drum mer. "But the tldfl tiirncH at lf eh?" "You betcher!" grinned the little man. "And all inside of n month too. Ten days more and I'd have been aown ana out for good, but now I'm In the capitalist class. Made ten thousand clear almost, you might say, overnight, and, by ginger, I'm goln' to enjoy it." "Mighty Interesting," said the drum mer, enviously. "Mav I .u what the line was?" "Oh. farmln'." said th nm handing over a 32-cent Havana. farming, eh?" said the drummer. "And all of a suddan aftnr losses you switch Into the profit class mr ten mounand?" "Yep." said the agriculturist "H'm!" mused the drummer. "Wasn't that rather sudden? You must have changed your system rad ically. What did you raise? Hay?" "Nope alfalfa. beets. potatoes squash all stable stuff," said the farmer. - "And you changed over to what artichokes, asparagus and endive salad. I suppose?" said the drummer. "No," said the farmer. "I Just leased the farm for 20 years for $.10. 000 a year to another party." "That was clever," laughed the drummer. "But if you couldn't make It pay, how Is he going to?" Oh," said the farmer, "he's all right he's rented It to a golf club for 20 years at $12,000 per annum." Harper's Weekly. Left Her In Charge. "I was under the impression that a man was In charge of this office," said a government Inspector, entering a country postofl.ee and seeing a woman at the delivery counter. "And so he was," replied the womas sharply, "but I married him. I am in charge now. What do you want?" But the government inspector had fled. 1 Sparrows for Food Users. The English sparrow Is a good food bird. That's all he is good for. In Scriptural times the sparrow was used for food, and In St. Matthew's day two were sold for a farthing. The department of agriculture In a recent bulletin tells how to catch, cook and serve them. This food use may solve the problem. Farm and FlreBlde. Women Bankers. Berlin has what Is said to be the only bank In the world owned and run by women exclusively for women. This Is the Mutual Bank of Self-Supporting Women. It was established about three years ago, the board of control being composed of four women. It employs seven women clerks. Part of the Dowry. Housemaid "And are you going to your young lady's wedding?" Cook "Rather. Mistress has given me to her as a wedding present" No Argument , "But we are too poor to marry." "What of that? Everybody la." Boston.Transnript AGAIN, "TO WHAT BASE USES" Here Is Story Thst Will Shock Admit era of Two Recognized Men of Genius. The ladles at a watering place la Bohemia recently organized a. dress making exhibition. A certain prin cess agreed to open it At the last moment some one noticed that the most important models, two very gor geous lace blouses, were not displayed to proper advantage. The caretaker was called and Instructed to beg. bor row or steal two dressmaker's dum mies and to drape the blouses upon them before the princess arrived. After the opening ceremony It was noticed that the exhibits were excit ing a great deal more attention than the committee had counted on and the princess insisted on seeing the two objects which were the center of attraction. Her surprise was very great when she caught sight of two llfeslze busts of Schiller and Goethe, both decked out In lace blouses. The caretaker, not being able to se cure dummies, had borrowed the fig ures of the poets from the reading room, and as they were somewhat tat chested had carefully stuffed them with linstf-- " 'i n"t nw blouses. Red Cromi Ball Blue, all blue, best blutar ralua St tha who Id world, makea the laundrau amila. A Intellectual Clerk. Visitors seeing the sights In Pitts burg entered the conservatory p re lented to the city by Mr. Phlpps. They came to a beautiful statue which waa admired Immensely. . It was of trans lucent marble. The clerk who waa showing them around, pointed out tha excellences of the statue, told the name of the sculptor and showed It from every point of view. One asked: "Alabaster, isn't It?" "No," he said. "Venus." Velvet From the Arabs. In the middle ages Venice and Genoa learned the art of velvet-ma Ing from the Arabs. Toward the yeaf 1618 Lyon - Inherited the business, Europe, notably France, followed the lead of the courtiers of Frances L, Lou la XIV. and La Pompadour. The courts of the world wore silk, satin and velvet stiff with gold and stives embroidery. Velvet was used by the rich for hangings and for furniture cover. In Lyon, In 1900. 20,000 looms were weavlne voin Harper's Week- New Light on a Terpslchorean Event "What," asked the casual student of the higher literature, "did the poet refer to when he wrote: "On with the dance; let Joy be unrefined?" "Oh, 1 don't know," replied the lowbrow, "un less he was describing one of those turkey trot affairs." 75 YEARS OF PUBLIC APPROVAL 5l FOR CONSTIPATION ind all forma of DIGESTIVE DISORDERS "DIDN'T HURT A BIT" is what they all say of our . , Valnless Methods of . I'Mracting Trfolh. Ojt-of-town peo ple can liave their plate and brldre Korb fiulihed In one iluy If neeeuer. A r. abiolete f uar Vttma. hec l-d b M yev- in Portland, M. W. A. Wltf. Pm Ha. Mmiiu. Wise Dental Co. orrirr: hoi ins. S A. M. to 8 P. M. Sundays 9 to' Phoncet A 2029i Main 2029. felling Bids., Third and Washington, Portland ..UJM.IMa:HSIJ.W BMtCcttgh Syrup, TastM Good. L't I la tlm. Bold hj Dracrittt. aa uiiaii .WUVjsUC, Egfri:rii.rt!n )