Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-08-14
LEADER HASH.
A Little Of Everything


Girls, don't you wish your big brother
was President. Miss Cleveland's share
Of the profits from the sale of 4fer book
will be between $4,000 and $4,000.
When the Weston Hook and Ladder
Co. received its truck, dyspeptic igno-
ramus examined it closely and said:
"Golly, I'd like to see her throw wa.
ter"
If man fought against the Union
and accepted the logic of the war he is
yet Confederate, if he is Democrat,
and merely an ex-Confederate if he is d
Republican; his loyalty since the war
has nothing to do with it: politics is the
bloody shirt test of patriotism.
There is a something about restau-
rants, hetels and boarding houses that
must be an inscrutable mystery and a
prolific source of annoyance to many.
1t is not Hash. 1t is how they manage
to make such poor coffee. Coffee made
in an old oyster can over FIRE of "buf-
falo chips and drank without cream or
sugar is as far ahead of the average res
tauraut coffee as nectar is superior to
Louisiana "black strap" molasses. The
coffee Of the sheep herder, the miner,
the camper, is at least palatable and
tastes like coffee, but the turbid liquid
of the restaurant that goes by that name
is simply execrable. By what fendish
contrivance they manage to destroy ev'
cry particle OF the coffee flavor is an un
fathomable mystery, one of the black
est arts of modern eating houses.
A man may be very poor and yet free
from debt, and he had better be out Of
debt than have the mere appearance o
aifiuence. The man whose debts are
due has no money that he can call hi:
own. Every time he indulges in 3 lux
airy or goes to circus he must feel tina
he is squandering some other mans mo
ncy. Indebtedness destroys independ
ence. The man who is harassed by
debts is almost forced into making sucl
SHIFTS as decrease his self-lespect, blum
his conceptions of mime and thine,
and unless he has more than the usua
share of moral backbone he is apt to be
come actually dishonest. The dow
grade is easy. If you would be inde
pendent, be free from debt, no matte
how poor you may be.
Few things are more prevalent tina
the fear of death. There is clingin
round our better sense and judgmer
an ugly superstition that it is hard
u, die. 1t is probably the rare exceptio
when death is painful, save to the spe
tators. As far as may be judged it
= physically all easy thing to die. Y
the Christian, to whom death is merel
t the portal to immortality, and IL
: Atheist, to whom death is the begi
ming of an eternal sleep of a5livio
alike fear death. Why should deal
be regarded as the "king OF Terrors
If it leads to eternal happiness it shou
be welcome; if it opens the gate to etc
nal woe one might well dread to pa
; the portal; and if it is merely passil
= into that deep sleep that knows no wa
p. ing, physical or spiritual, it should pc
: sess no dread. But it is not the cons
=, ouences of death that most men fea
If They have vague, undetinable and tt
IS rible awe of death itself. The sight
the dead, however beautiful, max
n most men shudder. In spite of til,
" boasted reason and intelligence, the II
IS iority of people are afraid OF de
u man. Children are frightened by t
phantom of death, and no amount
subsequent knowledge can dispel t
tear. Here is the source Of the si
error. Children should be taught to
n gard death as it really is, and not
= cowardly superstition has pictured 1t
10 The County Poor Farm is to be so
u How much will it bring? As much
: it cest the county? Time will soon tt
>. But even if it should sell for more th
<, the original price and the cost of
4 nrovemert with interest on the sum
- pended added that would not blot I
i! the remembrance Of the manner
pt which the county was mul:ted in t
IT matter. BY all means let 1t be 50
= The price paid for it was too great ;
"a the bereGt derived S-occ : Ea= bean