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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1914)
INTO RATTLER'S EYES Plain, Tailored Utility Coats CANADA'S FAM0U8 RAINBOW MAN LOOKED WHILE CLINQINQ 8TONE MUCH ADMIRED. TO LADDER IN MINE. Mixture of Colors and Its Capacity Why Reptile Refrained From 8trlk for High Polish Are the Two QuaU Itles That Have Brought It Into Prominence. Ing la Something of a Mystery, Though Its Precarious Posi tion May Explain It, S OF RAKE BEAUTY V v ti ; f f ESS M :) Wf jtev THE long, protecting "rain or shine" coat, made to meet the exigencies of travel or life In the out-of-doors, is cut on simple lines. One of the most practical of these coats Is pictured here. It hangs straight on the figure. The needed fullness at the bust line Is provided for by two small plaits on each shoul der. This Is taken up from the swell of the bust down In a stltched-ln plait at each side of the front, the plaits extending below the normal waist line for at least six Inches. The coat Is open at the throat, but without revers. The neck Is fintrbed with a small sailor collar and the sleeves with turnback cuffs. Bone buttons are used for fastening and as decorative feature on the cuffs. Coats of this kind are made with sklrU to match. The latter, severely plain and straight, are worn with blouses of thin wash silk, pongee or sheer wash fabrics. These coats and skirts require firmly woven rainproof goods in quiet staple colors. Either can be worn without the other, and the coat is designed to do duty wher ever a separate coat Is needed. Ia some of the new models these Small Girl's Outfit SHOPPING for the requirements of the little girl develops the knowl edge thst she may be provided with almost as many dress accessories as are designed for her mother. In anticipation of wintry weathor the little maid In the picture is about to be outfitted with warm clothing in which she may defy the cold for one thing and look pretty and well cared tor, tor another. In outside garments she Is first sup piled with a heavy, close-knitted sweatercoat It is finished with turn back collar and cuffs and a knitted belt and Is almost as warm as fur. The eolor Is a rich red, about the beat tbolce and the most pleasing to the lit tle wearer. The collar may be rolled ap about the neck and the cuffs brought well down over the hands to protect the wrists. For dally wear this is the ldal garment The little Scotch cap to be worn coats are cut with a flaring skirt set onto a shorter bodice in the style of the RusBian coat. Others, of heavier fabrics, are cut double-breasted, in long-waiBted designs having an Invert ed plait at each side to give a slight flare to the skirt part. In these the sleeves are large and straight with turnback cuffs. Turnover collars that may be brought up snugly and tight ly about the neck make this a warmer garment than open-throated models, This is best for the automobile. One of the most modish of coats belongs in the redlngote class. It Is constructed with an easy-fitting long- sleeved Jacket to which a plaited skirt Is set on. This terminates at each side three Inches, or a little more, from the front of the Jacket, to which It is attached under a belt of folded satin. There is a rolling collar of velvet and narrow cuffs of it, both finished with a silk braid. The Jacket Is fastened with large barrel-shaped buttons at the front When a skirt to match any of these utility coats Is needed It ia cut in the straight-Una style and the requisite fullness given with inverted plaits. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. for Cold Weather with this or any other coat la of black and red velvet bound and trimmed with black silk braid. The crown Is a long puff of black velvet and the bands about It at each side are of red lined with black and finished with a binding of black silk braid. These bands are extended at the back, where they are out into two tabs which are turned down and fall over the hair. At the front the bands are also turned back and the points tacked down. Small bows of the black atlk braid used In the binding are placed at the middle of the front and back. Knitted caps or hoods for school and for outdoor play and mittens to take the place of the muff, are to be provided. Freedom to play keeps an active child warm In ordinary cold weather without the fur sets which are not expected to stand a great deal of hard service. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. The gift to Sir Thomas Llpton of I model In serpentine stone of his new racing yacht has revived Interest lu this beautiful stone, which some yean ago was much in vogue. Serpentine is often found In con junction with asbestos. Canada pro duces about nine-tenths of the world'i production of asbestos, which is large ly used for insulating purposes and also for weaving Into fireproof cloth, In the province of Quebeo are to bt found the largest asbestos mineB Is Canada. The production is large, and it is interesting to note that whereat In 1909 the exports of crude asbestot were valued at $1,768,057, In 1913 the figures had Increased to $2,486,- 769. And In the same province are also to be found some of the world's most beautiful deposits of serpentine. It was in 1846 that Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort, when on visit to Cornwall, England, were shown specimens of serpentine, which they admired so much that several large pedestals made of this stone were ordered for Osborne house. The patronage thus secured brought serpentine into considerable fashion, and among others who at that time favored It were the duke of Westmin ster, who ordered a pair of Luxon obelisks 14 feet In height; the Hon. Pemberton Lee, who bought the first and flneBt chimney-piece ever made in this material ; and the then duke ol Devonshire, who had several large pedestals and pilasters, unequaled foi beauty and color, made for his sculp ture gallery at Chatsworth. During the rather short-lived boom in serpentine which followed, a man ufactory on a large scale of a great variety of household and domestlo or naments, etc., was Btarted at Pen zance, which afterwards passed into the hands of a London company. Sen pentine was exhibited at the exhibi tions of 1861 and 1862, and was awarded medals on both occasions. Serpentine, it may be mentioned, gets Its name from the variety of the colors which It presents. These colors are of the most beautiful and varie gated description Imaginable, black and green, perhaps, predominating, with a frequent mixture of dlallage; but the choicest sorts are generally considered to be those which show the greatest number of tints, and chromatic com binations are as various and many as the figures in a kaleidoscope. Some when cut and polished shine with a metallic green luster on a red dish base. Then there is a rich Jet black, a purple, a brown, a red, crim son, and bronze, and a cream-colored, striped, dappled, or variously inter 'mixed and blended with one or other tints. It well deserves the name of rainbow stone. Several of the finest bank and other buildings In Canada are beautified by columns, pillars, panels, or floorings of this beautiful and varl-colored tone, which takes a perfectly exquis ite polish. Decision on "Recall" Law. A suit to test the Washington law for the recall of officers was heard by the supreme court of the state In Pybus vs. Smith, city clerk, In which the plaintiff, a councilman of the city of Wenatchee, sought to have the city clerk enjoined from calling a special election to submit the question of his recall to the voters. It appeared that the charge against the plaintiff was that he agreed to and did trade votes with another councilman on matters pending before, the common council, but the plaintiff contended that the charge was not one tor which he could be recalled. The lower court dismissed the plaintiff's suit and in affirming th Judgment the aupreme court said: "Whether this appellant could be convicted of a misdemeanor in our state upon the charge here made may be regarded as somewhat doubtfuL Dut we are, however, of the opinion that the facts here charged against tht appollant, if true, do constitute mal feasance In office on his part, within the meaning of that word as used in our constitutional and statutory recall provisions, and form sufficient legal cause for submitting to the voters ol the city the question of his recall and discharge from public office." Keeping Fish. The very best wsy to keep fish In camp (or anywhere without Ice) Is to scale, clean and behead them; then string them by a cord through theli talis and hang them, downward. In a dry, breezy, shady place. No flsb should be eaten that have been lying In the sun or that have begun soften. It Is In neglected fish that ptomaine poison forms. Do not put fish on a string to keep In water until you start home. It la slow and painful death to them. you have neither live-box nor net with you, kill and bleed every fish as soon as caught The flesh will be much firmer and far more palatable. Fish and meat should be bung high In the open, for It Is a curlbus fsct that blow flies work close to the ground and sel dom bother food hung over ten feet from the ground, while It Is claimed that game or fish suspended at height of SO feet will be Immune from blow flies. " ?LiiJt&Z i in cr- i VjiHln i , m iiimmiii I1EU3& RTVCR T HE Meuse Is a river singularly symbolical of, and wedded to, the three groups of peoples through whom the three great phases of its life as a river run. Its part in war also has corre sponded to all three, and since it first entered recorded history, 2,000 years ago, till today, when It Is so apparent ly the obstacle surmounted by the German Invasion of France, it has checked or aided 60 generations of soldiers. All its first course goes through that essentially Gallic coun try of Lorraine, of the Three Bishop rics and of the countrysides that bound the Barrols. On Its very up per waters, where It is no more than a clear meadow stream; you will find Domremy and the house where Joan of Aro was born. - In the midst of that same stretch where already the Meuse Is a river stands the great Galllo fortress of Verdun, the town upon whose fortunes so many invasions have depended. Further upon its course see the somber name of Sedan; and In all this long French rising and flowing of the river there Is upon either side that mass of rich meadowland and vine yard, low, rounded hill and strictly ordered woods, which make up a French landscape. It is this stretch, too, that runs all the earlier and higher part of it along and behind these "Cotes de Meuse" which are the stretched line of defense between Tout and Verdun; which make a wall of forts from Commercy at the gates of Toul to the Verdun ring. Merges Into Dutch. Similarly, all the lower reaches. from the Roman crossing at Maastricht to the vague marshes, flat mud is-H lands, dykes and confused shallows whereby it mingles with the Scheldt and with the Rhine and passes to the sea, are quite Dutch, not only in the language spoken upon either side of the river, but in the broadening flats and sluggish waters and In the very sky. For the skies of the Nether land plain are different from anything else In the rest of Europe. They seem to be lit from beneath and their clouds supply the accident and con trast which the earthly horizon lacks, All this lower stream Is full of such wars as the seventeenth century fought to withstand Louis XIV. The duke of Marlborough owed his title to the clearing of the Lower Mouse rolling .up the French garrisons as far as Liege In 1702. Between these two peopled, wealthy sections, the upper and the lower, the broad seaward reaches and the In land meadow streams, the Meuse by a curious accident experiences a fate not promised by its origin and hardly remembered at Its end. It runs through gorges more bold, and in parts more deserted, than those of any western river. The trench which it thus occupies Is the more memor able to those who have followed It, from the breadthr the depth and the silence of the stream that flows through It between the very steep walls of wood and rock upon either side. These are 600, 600, 700 feet above the stream, and In places 1,000 feet, but they give an impression of far greater height from the uniformity of their coloring and wooded cloak, from their sharpness of fall, and from the way In which they run parallel, supporting each the effects of the other upon either side of the dead, flat floor of water between.. This ac cident which the Meuse suffers, this exceptional landscape coming after the easy pastures of Lorraine, coming before the great sea-fiats of the Neth erlands, makes the course of the Meuse comparable to the life of some man whose youth and manhood were merely prosperous, whose old age was spacious and at ease, but who fell by some fate In a few yards of middle life upon surprising adventures. And this gorge, though loss mixed with the history of war than what lies above and below It, has fortress at Its gates and In Its mldat corresponds to his tory of war. All these three sections, then, cor respond to something In the history of war. The wars to protect the Netherlands against the ambition of the French concerned the Dutch Meuse; to possess Maastricht ultl mately to possess Llego, was the ob ject of the defenders and of the at tackers. The upper reaches through AT DlNANT" Sedan, through Verdun, on against the stream into Lorraine, were mark of obstacle against Invasion, a line of bases for counter-invasion; a string of names big In the story of the perpetual come and ro between civil- lzatlon and the barbario marches of the Germanles. ' Upon the Meuse was the capitulation of Sedan; upon the. Meuse the surrender of Verdun in 1792 threatened the survival of France perhaps, certainly of the Revolu- tion. The Gaulish river rises In those high, rolling lands near Langres. But the central exceptional niece, the hlah- land country through which the Meuse has cut Its way, or has had a way opened to it by nature, has had less Place In the storv of arms. The wars have passed to the north of it, over the Belgian clam, and even In this. the greatest and perhaps the last of the struggles between the confirmed West and the uncertain Germanles, I the central gorge of the Meuse has been no hluhwav. Its bridma. nnt tta line, have been the matter of conten tion, and when it was abandoned in the retreat the German columns passed, in the main, on either side of the trench; not along it From Lleara tn Nimnr Mn ,,n. stream the valley, growing though It does more striking, is yet not fixed In character, and in mmnv nl- cm th solemn heights of the Ardennes upon the south overlook an easier land to the north. But between Namur and Glvet the rnggedness of outline In- creases. At Dinant the valley Is al- ready strikingly profound. Between Glvet and Mezlerm Ita nilulr depth and Isolation make one remem- ber the Sierras or the Pyrenees and foreet the ton nnrft, This gorge singularly corresponds In Its aspect and spirit both to the leeends that har rl.n Mnii it .. to the obscure but enormous part which the little Franklsh tribe and the Carbonarian Forest Dlaved in that great transition of Europe between the Pagan empire and Christendom. The Franks lay all around that val- ley; Tournal at Its edge Is the Roman tomb of their king: a Roman officer. The Ardennes is the very forest of the Franks. And the auxiliary Frank- Ian tronna -a. HAiirfan noAnli -v iw the Roman- empire had raised upon the lower valleys of the Rhine and of - w- a -""' "Mivu the Meuse, those auxiliary troops wnuae captains were later to as- sume the government of northern Gaul, had. It would seem, for their legendary place and for the cnnior nf their national dreams, this strange ciert running tortuous and alone through the heart of the great woods. It Is from one group of its fsntastlo rocks that the four aons of Avmon. in the Carollnaian toem. smirrail ihi horses, and another group of Its bare plnnacles of stone Is. in c-oDular trarfl. tion, their castle; while those highest dominating cliffs, which are called Tne Ladles of the Meuse." art thought of by the populace as a gate to a defile which may lead to all nfysteries. Motor Fuel In War. Some years ago more or less won- der was expressed at the army re- qulrements that a motor be capable of using three different fuels gasoline, benzol and alcohol with the same carburetor. The present war, with Ita snortage of fuel, bss demonstrated how essential It Is to be able to naa one or the other. There are places In tne tone of activities where only ben sol csn be had; at another place alco- Dol only la available, and at a third gasoline Is on hand. It waa a wlaa precaution that made It imperative that a motor be capable of uslna one or all ot these fuels. Bavlno the Day. This Is disgraceful. The scora la tl to 0 In the fourth Inning. What will we dor Better quit playing. I say. and let the umpire forfeit the game. That will reduce It to 9 to 0, and that ain't ao bad." Kansaa City Journal. terene Indifference. "What la that dog's namer "Pat's whst I been tryln' to fin' out ever since I owned him," replied Eras- tua Plnklcy. "I dun called him all de names a dog kin have an' he pars lea' as much attention to one as ha doaa to another." There Is a saying down on the broad Mojave desert, where the burning sands conceal many dangers, that no true son of the greasewood wastes will pass up a rattler. Strong as is the lure of gold which so irresistibly holds the prospector on his search, there is none who will not stop an hour or half a day to kill the deadly foe of the gold hunter. There is a story which will bear telling and It Is comparatively new. It happened in San Bernardino, coun ty. The man to whom the experience came is noted the desert over for hia truthfulness. He has been bitten twice. His name is George Branch. Quiet, unassuming, with a laugh at what he termed a Joke on the snake, he told the story on a recent trip to San Fran cisco: 'I was hiking along with Jack and Jennie and Joe, my three burros, when I ran across an outcropping that looked good and In a country I knew was among the best there Is on the desert So we four struck camp right there and 1 began sinking a shaft to get a look tbe Inside. "1 bad little timber, but managed to get enough over to the workings to Put down a good ladder and keep the shaft open. The grub ran short and 1 nad to hit the trail back for more- lt took about a week. When I returned I started down in the mine to do a half day shift, hitting Into camp a llttle before noon. I wasn't paying mucn attention to anytmng except get- ting down the ladder. My candle shed Pretty small ugnt for all the dark- neg al " Bottom of tne bole. "1 was passing the last set of tlm- bera and when they were opposite my houlder I flashed my candle to the ,eft to aee if there was any sign of " "' was turning around t0 look on the other aide I heard. aD0Ut three Inches from my ear, thi " or a rattier. It sounded more like a bell rattle than I ever heard them before. It was so close it almost scared me Into los ing my grip on the ladder. In the half second I stayed there I saw ev. ery scale on the snake and his wicked 7OT maa m lan" ana oarung . lunguo- "7oe a was tne ugnt or tne candle that confronted him and may be 14 WM nethlng else that kept him from striking. But all that lad would naTe bad t0 do was to reach out a o000' of Inches to get me on the cheek D(1 1 would have had no chance w wp l"e Pon rrom doing Its Work. Mke1 college professor after- wra ,u" now ne "ougnt I did it I don't remember. But in about two ,klp, of fle 1 waa out on the sur- "no "ening to tne rattier Duzs way down In the shaft The Dro- 1 , ",a lnere wai ometning tnat !w,5,, m,de man ,n an emergency uu "K" ln"- got a ,tlck and poked hlm off th t,mber and kllled h,m b dropping ock, lnt0 the ,ha,t' He was four ,ons and bad ,lxteen ratt,ea- H" u "uu aown lne ,ncne or tne snait 4d lled on a ,our-,,": esm. I lh,nk ba wa" afrald ot ,a,Im or 09 I Biruia. sllp of the Key. When Frank Mandel first submit ted the manuscript of his plsy. "The Hlgl1 Cost ' Loving," to A. H. Woods. u waa entitled "The High Cost of Living." It did not take the theatrl- cal mana8er long to discover that 1DS n,B J0St or uvlng" was well wortb' tl Price. He saw Lew Fields I m tD Btar role, and as the plot un- l0laea aw greater possibilities nd within a few minutes after ha bad read tne last page he was dlctat- ,n a letter of acceptance. Perhana Mr' Woods was still laughing over the lunn' situauona wnen be was dlctat- ln Uat letter. It may have been that the letter V Is next to "1" on tb typewriter keyboard, but be that as It may, when the manacer cama tn sign the epistle his quick gaze detect- d the fact that the title of the nlav "High Cost of Living" wss chanced to MH8h Cost of Loving." It seemod like an lustration, for no title could have been mor PProprlate, and tlen and ther Mw Play was christened ln Mln C0Bt of Loving." The Electrle Era. Th' the electric era. Back tn the centuries that are past we had the l,tone Me, the tee age, etc, but the ! "ctrlcal aK purely the utilization or natural forces by the aentus of man. ,n the 26 years Isst past probably greater progress has been made in electrical power development than In any otner sphere of human activity. -'nis nas neen done by scientific con wslou of power represented In the flo" of water to an Invisible current I to almost everything that required Power, light or beat Twenty-five Taar a" there were no trolley can, 110 ltret carl propelled by electricity, Tbl Uent but potent force was nown, but llttle used. In a quarter I of a century It baa come Into general Naturally, the first development ' electrlo power was at the source of lho freateat quantity of power any where to be found on earth, the Falls Niagara. "Harnessing Nlsgara and lTannelln Catakllls," by Edward TV I Williams. In National Magazine.