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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-04-01
The Polar Snow Can of Mars

We have received the following infor
nation from America: "a telegram re-
ceived at Harvard Observatory on JAN
IL from Lowell Observatory, now locat
ed near the City of Mexico, says that
rift has been observed since Jan. Z in
the north polar cap of Mars in longitude
40" This "rift" is probably similar to
those observed at the opposition of
1894, in the southern cap. Prof. w. Fl.
Pickering, with siX-inch telescope
found one in May %, crossing the cap
from longitude $50 to TO- This grew
considerable in size, measurements
made on June and Is Indicating a
width Of 100 and $50 miles respective
ly. Mr.. Douglass also during the same
month, June 10, detected a second and
third rift, the latter running from longi-
tude ITO to 80. The sequence of phe.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-04-01

resident of what afterward became fa-
nous as the Oil Greek regions that his
interest was sufficiently awakened by
way, OF possibly rich deposits OF coal
oil across the Canadian border, to
cause him to leave Oil Creek and repair
to Canada. One of the Objectionable
features of the farm he left, according
to the story, was the oozing of a green
tsh scum to the surface of the streams,
so much that at the point where his
horses and cattle drank it was neces-
Sary to construct a surface dam, in or
der that the animals might drink with
out being compelled to dip through the
noXious deposit floating ON the surface
of the water. This floating substance
was of an oily nature and long had
been used in the war paints, rites and
medicines of the Indians of the region,
from whom it derived its name-Sene-
ca oil. No thought, however, of the i'm
mensity of the supply of the multiplied
uses to which it might be put was en-
tertained by any one. The oily wealth
the restless settler sought in Canada
failed to materialize at that time.
Meanwhile, in the form of the despis-
ed scum oozing from the old Oil Creek
farm he had deserted, it was making
the effort nature afforded to force upon
the world more fitting recognition of
the volume and value Of it stored in the
hidden natural reservoirs from which
1t came. This oil found it's way to the
surface at various points along the
creek flats. notably in the vicinity of
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-04-01

nomena observed SENS to Indicate that
they are due to the lower levels at the
poles being uncovered; IN this way, as
the snow melts, the bare ground is ex-
posed, appearing dark in contrast to
the snow still lying on the more elevat-
ed heights. Their broadening is then
natural result of the departing snow,
and indicates that the polar cap is at
that time in far advanced state of dis
integration.-Nature.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-04-01
One-Cent Newspapers.

There are now SS,O00,OOO worth OF
one-cent pieces in circulation, and the
call upon the mint is still for more. Not
all these cents are wanted for the plate
collection. 1t is one-cent journalism
more than anything else which keeps
the wheels turning in the mint, as In the
marts of trade.-Philadedlphia Record.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-04-01
WILLIE AND TAD LINCOLN.
The Two Sons of the Great President
and Their Natures.


and Their Natures.
Julia Taft Bayne contributes an ar
ticle to st. Nicholas on willie and Tad
Lincoln" who were playmates Of her
brother during the time that they lived
in the White House. Mrs. Bayne says:
Willie Lincoln was the most lovable
boy | ever know-sensible, sweet-tem-
pered, and entle-mannered. He was
rather fair, with blue-gray eyes, while
Tad had quick. dark eyes, and fiery
temper Though very affectionate
when he chose, Tad was unyielding in
his dislikes. His peculiar defect Of
speech made it difficult for strangers
to understand him, but those who saw
him every day had no difficulty.
The two Lincoln boys We're then a
little over 10 and 8 years of age, my
two brothers being year or two older.
The elder, Horatio, or "Budd," as he
was always called, was fair, like Willie
Lincoln, while Hally was dark This
resemblance of the two pairs of boys
was often remarked upon.
Willie and Tad were two healthy,
rollicking Western boys who had never
been accustomed to restraint The no.
tice which their fathers exalted station
brought upon them was at times dis
tasteful. Willie once said: wasn't
there ever President who had chill
dren before? l wish they wouldn't
stare at us sov'
The first time they went to church
with us, Willie said: "Will he pray
Tor us, do you think? Preachers al
ways pray so long for Pa" DR.. Smith
did pray for them, as he recognized
them in our pew. Willie's cheeks grew
very red, but Tad was sitting on the
floor of the pew, and needed not. He
was so uneasy that he always sat on
the floor good part of the service.
drawing pictures, and amusing him
self with whatever he could find in his
pockets.
On another Sunday, when he was I'M
usually restless, young officer friend
or ours gave him knife, which he
thought Tad would not open, but he
ulu, ana cut his finger, and l had to do
1t up in my best embroidered handker-
chief.
On this occasion I was goaded to say:
I'll never take you to church again.
Thomas Lincoln!'-he hated of all
things to be called Thomas-"I Just suf
fer agonies all the time" "Well," said
Tad, wasn't Willie sitting up there,
good as pie, and you poked me with
your toe?"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-04-01

esting chapter in the
country, with which
our readers are un-
doubtedly familiar.
But there are many
facts of interest
prior to the boring
of the wells that are
known to but few.
1t is related of a
discouraged pioneer
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-04-01
Expenses OF the White House.

Congress appropriates between $40.
900 and $4,000 annually for the cur.
rent expenses of the Executive Man.
sion to meet clerk hire. including that
OF the Presidents private secretary,
which is $4,000 year; stenographer.
typewriters, telegraph operators, mes.
sengers, doorkeepers, a steward. and
housekeeper, and light and heat
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-04-01

Old Gentleman Ito railway porter)-
Porter, the rain is dripping in from the
lamphole all over my trousers.
Porter (reassuringly)-No, sir, It's
quite water-tight, l assure you. It's
only the oil leaking a bit-Household
Words.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-04-01
Election of United States senator's.

Election of United States Senator'S.
In his paper on This Country of
Ours in the Ladies' Home Journal ex-
President Harrison writes of Congress,
and tells how United States Senators
are elected. "The law of 1866" he
says, provides that the Legislature
chosen next before the expiration of
the term of Senator shall choose his
successor, and that it shall proceed to
do so on the second Tuesday after it as
sembles. On that day each House of
the Legislature must vote separately,
viva voce, for Senator, and enter the
result on its Journal; the two Houses
must at II m. the next day meet in
Joint session, and If it appears that the
same person has received a majority
or the votes in each House he Is de-
clared elected; If there has been no cleo
ton the joint assembly must take a
vote, and If any one receives a ma
Jority of the votes-a majority of all
the members elected to both Houses
being present and voting-he Is to be
declared elected. If there is no cleo.
ton the joint assembly proceeds with
the balloting. and must meet every
day at II m., and take at least one bal.
lot each day until Senator is elected.
The Governor of the State is required
to certify the election under the seal
of the State, to the President Of the
Senate, the certificate to be counter
signed by the Secretary Of State of the
State"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-04-01

Whenever two women get together,
and there is a man in an adjoining
room, they soon begin to whisper.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-04-01
EARLY DAYS OF OIL.
BEG MINING OF PETROLEUM
DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Growth and Collapse of the Tremen-
dous Boom that Followed-One Resi-
dent Who Objected to the Greenish
Scum and Left for Canada,


The story of the discovery of oil in
Pennsylvania and the stirring Incl
dents connected Herewith is an inter-
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-04-01

When a woman complains a good
deal Of cold feet, 1t Is a sign she IS an
old maid.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-07-30
Can't Be Fooled Every Time.

Some people can be fooled once or
twice, but very few more than that. Mr..
Bryan in his speeches last fall asserted
that the forty-two million dollars neces-
sary to keep pace with the growth of pop
ulation in the United States could not be
produced since the suspension of free
coinage of silver, and quoted Senator
Sherman in support of his theory that this
amount was necessary to be added to the
currency of the country each year. He
was undoubtedly right in his quotation of
Senator Sherman. but both inaccurate and
misleading in assuming that this amount
of currency cannot be and is not added
to the circulating medium of the country
BY means of its present facilities. The
coinage of the minis of the country in the
year which ends with the present month
will be. in round numbers. one hundred
million dollars, three-fourths of it gold.
while that of the calendar year 1896 was
ninety-nine million dollars Add TO this
the fact that the money in circulation
to-day is $13S, 900. 900 more than it was
q year ago and it will be seen that Mr..
Bryan's statements in this. as well as
in many other things. were. to say the
least, misleading.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-07-30
Tariff Prospects Are Helping.

The progress made by the Senate with
the tariff bill has given some impetus
to general business and has created
more hopeful feeling in all departments
of trade. The matter is not entirely SEN
timental or at all partisan. The doubt
and instability which have plainly sur
rounded every commercial avenue and
which always exist while tariff uncer-
tainty lasts will in all probability soon
be removed. For the first time since
1887 the business of the country will be
in a free and untrammeled position and
the favorable effect on credit and individ
ual action canot be too highly estimated.
The manufacturer and the distributor
will be able to see clearly into the future
and the money lender and the money Dor
rover will be able to act Understandings.
The prospect has already caused some
activity in the iron and steel trades. and
has given definite assurance in other d.
rections. The great majority of the
American people hope for and have con-
fdence in substantial results. The gen.
eral situation is ripe for the change.
Money is abundant at low rates. Price
is on a level which practically guaran-
tees judicious operations.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-07-30
lct, signed two days before bis ret,r.mer,

act, signed two days before his re.,rsrron.
was the Morrill," tariff act, a thoron rh,r
protective measure, whose MASSAGE
MADE possible at that time because of A.
tact that large number of the Sontbern
Democratic members of tba THIRTY ~
congress mad withdrawn. leaving Con-
sress In the control of the Republican
parry, which thus placed tariff act unon
lhe statute books two days before the in
auguration of Lincoln.
TIeSaoent Lincoln, who was inaupurat-
cd March 4, 1851. signed his first penera,
1arlH act on Aug. 5 o. that year. and this
was Followed by the passage in Julv 1850
ana June 8, 1854, of other tariff measures
10 winch his signature was attached
- Grant who became President March 4.
1908 signed on July IA. 1870. his FIRST
seherai act relating to revenues. BY which
Tue tHternai revenue taxes were reduced
tnls being followed by another reduction
on June 6. 1872.
PRESIDENT Hayes, who was inaugurated
March 4. 1877. signed no general tariff
legislation, the House being Democratic
in the first Congress under his adm;n;stra-
ton and both branches Democrats n
nail Ol Ills Term.
Inc Garfeld-Arthur administration.
winch began March 4. 1881. did not wit
ness the enactment of any general tariff
legislation until March 8. 1883. two full
years after the Inauguration.
CleVeiand's first term was NOT marked
oy the completion of any general tariff
legislation. the Mills bill. which passed
tne democratic House in 1888. failing in
the Senate, which was so closely divided
ponucally that it was found impossible
10 pass through it measure satisfactory
70 Ine administration, the substitute
winch was adopted by the Senate being
rejected by the House, where the Demo
crane divisions on the tariff question. now
so strongly marked, was then beginning
to make itself apparent.
benjamin Harrison's term began March
4. 1889, and the first general tariff act
passed under his administration was sign.
co oct. L, 1890, eighteen months after his
inauguration.
Cleveland's second term, which began
March 4, 1893, with his own party in con-
troll in both branches of Congress. did not
witness the completion of its tariff meas
ure until Aug. %, 1894, nearly eighteen
months after he took the oath of Office.
A study of the above history of the tar
IN from the beginning of the Government
down to the present time will indicate to
tnose who have been inclined to criticise
what they assume to be the slow action of
Congress that instead of its action being
unusually tardy. it has been unusually
prompt, and especially SO in view of the
tact that the party in control of the ad-
mlnistration controls only one branch of
Congress, condition under which it has
seldom been possible to pass a tariff meas
ure. even in much greater length of time
than has been or is likely to be occupied
in the present instance.
GEORGE MELVILLE.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-07-30
Political Pith.

President Cleveland pulled down the
American flag in Hawaii; President Nc
Kinley pulled if up again.
One-third of the Southern vote in the
present Congress has been cast for pro-
lection.
Every days consideration of the Senate
schedules of the tariff bill brings them
more in harmony with those of the House
bill, and it is probable that the bill, when
1t goes into conference, will differ but lit
tie from that which passed the House
The shades Of the late Samuel J. Ran
dali are DOW being invoked by the Democ-
racy of that section which fought him
most bitterly during the closing period of
his useful career.
With one member of the Democratic
team pulling in the direction Of free trade.
another towards protection. still a third
in favor of free silver. and fourth head
ed resolutely toward the gold standard.
the Jeffersonian-Ja band wagon
is not making much progress.
The recent "silver Republican" confer
ence is said to have had as'its real object
plan to unload Mr.. Bryan as the leader
of the silver cause. Mr.. Bryan has too
many "isms" and is to cratic to suit the
men who are putting up the money in be-
half of the silver cause.
No subject is being more carefully con-
sidered by President Mckinley now than
the Cuban question. 1t has been the
cause of much anxious thought by him
from the beginning and there is good rea-
son to believe that his plans are we'll de-
yeloped and viii be recognized as wide
and satisfactory when they become
known.
The trade reviews and the daily papers
of the country unite in the assertion that
business is frightening in all parts of the
United States. More men are employed,
the volume of new orders is increasing.
and the amount of work done is steadily
gaining. With the final action on the tar
if bill. which may be expected during the
present month, an increased improvement
is confidently expected.
People who are surprised that the Re-
publicans in the Senate are not answering
in detail the attacks made by the Demo
Gratis upon the pending tariff bill need not
suppose that it is because of lack of argu-
ment or facts upon which to base them.
Their silence is simply because of their
unwillingness to consume a moment of
time more than is absolutely necessary
in getting the bill before the Senate.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-07-30
DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS LOADED.

The Sugar Trust Screamers Find Their
Attacks Reacting on Themselves.
There has been some especially sharp
talk in the Senate and some of the people
who are seeking to make political capital
by throwing dust with reference to the
pending tariff bill have suddenly dis
covered that there are two sides to almost
any story. Two or three Democrats
leaders seem to have reached the conclu-
SION that they could once more fool the
people. and that their most convenient
way to do 1t would be to charge that the
sugar schedules of the tariff bill as agreed
upon by the Republican caucus were fa-
vorable to the sugar trust. So they pro-
ceeded upon the stop thief" plan to make
all sorts of malicious charges of this kind,
taking advantage of the fact that Repub-
hcans IN the Senate have been refusing to
discuss any features of the bill not abso-
luteiy necessary to be explained. simply
TOT the purpose of gaining time and get
ting the bill through as promptly as pos
slole. The gentlemen have found. how
ever. that there is limit to the endur-
ance of the public who are being imposed
upon with this sort of falsehood. and the
newspapers of the country have suddenly
revived the fact that the very men who
are now shouting sugar trust with refer
ence to the pending tariff bill are the
ones under whose guidance the "per-
ndy and dishonor" bill of 1894 was franz
ed and its sugar schedule so shaped as to
create the greatest scandal that has been
known in political history in many years.
attention is called to the fact that the
three men, Senators Vest. Jones and
NILS, whose mouthings about an increase
IN prices of sugar trust stock as a result
of the pending tariff bill have been the
features of the week. are the very men
who framed the sugar schedules of the
" lison bill under which sugar trust
stocks advanced GO per cent, while the
advance during thc entire consideration
OF the present bill is only per cent. and
mis- mere incident of the general adj
vance which has been strongly marked
meantime in all stocks. That the three
men whose manipulations in the schedules
OF the Wilson bill caused an advance of
o6 per cent. in the price of sugar stocks
should now be screaming like madmen
because sugar stocks have increased per
cent during the consideration of the pres
emf Dill would be unaccountable but for
the fact that they are apparently doing it
to not only make political capital against
the Republicans but at the same time
conceal as far as possible their own rec
ord in this very line.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-07-30
Some Free Silver outcasts.

Some individuals. who bolted the Re
publican party last year and voted for
bryan, held meeting in this city and
ORGANIZED what they call 1.-The Silver Re
publican Party of the United States"
ror some reason they do not care to join
the Populists or the free silver Demo
Gratis They seem to think they will have
a better chance of picking up offices if
they have distinct organization.
Inese boilers cannot be prevented from
forming new party. but in doing so they
ought to state clearly to the public what
its principles are and what reason there
is for its existence. That has not been
done. Ex-Congressman Towne declares
that
This is a movement that has taken
deep root. and will grow until the restora-
ton of silver to an equality with gold has
been accomplished"
What is this equality that Towne and
his associates are going to devote the
rest OF their lives to securing? Does he
intend to say that the time will come
again when sixteen ounces of silver will
exchange everywhere for one Of gold?
Towne should look the facts in the
face. The price of silver, which was 1870
cents an ounce in 1870. is 60 cents now.
In spite of the low price the silver miners
of the United States put 100000
ounces on the market last year and made
money at the business.
The demand for silver by silver stand
ard countries is decreasing because the
number of those countries is diminishing.
Japan, the most progressive of Asiatic
nations, with a population of Al 600. 600
has adopted the worlds gold standard.
Peru and Bolivia, though silver-producing
countries, are preparing to do so.
Does Towne really believe that his lit
tie movement" will be able to raise the
purchasing power of 81 grains of silver
until it becomes equal once more to the
purchasing power of twenty-three grains
of gold? 1t is difficult to believe that any
intelligent man who knows what the
present silver production of the world is.
and how much more cheaply it is pro-
duced than of old, really imagines any
thing of the kind.-Chicago Tribune.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-07-30
Politicians Working Country PeooIe

oiitiCidnS w OrklnS country PeO0Ie
The dangerous characters who were last
fall hired to stir up satisfaction and
SOW seeds of anarchism and riot in the
cities ere now being sent through the
country districts for the same purpose.
They travel in gaudily painted wagons,
bearing false or misleading quota tons
from distinguished men. which are dis
torted into apparent support of the free
coinage OF silver. which is now worth less
than one-half what it was when these
utterances are alleged to have been made.
To conceal their real purposes these men
profess to be obtaining subscribers to
free silver pubiica tion. with which is fir
nished a copy of book by Coin" Har-
vey, whose writings are now recognized
as not only untruthful and mislea ding,
but purposely and maliciously so and an
imposition upon those before whom they
are placed. This attempt to distribute the
seeds of distrust. anarchism and riot in
the agricultural communities for the pure
ly selfish purpose of making a market
for the property of silver mine-owners
and placing few politicians in Office de-
serves the contempt of those upon whom
it is being imposed. 1t is of the same
class as that by which the tin peddler
wagons spread falsehood through the
country il the Congressional campaign Of
1890 but is vastly more dangerous to
the country from the class of employed.
the doctrines they disseminate and the
desperate schemes of those who support
them in this performance. The silver
mine-owners and their political allies have
resorted to this new device to deceive the
people. who are. however. rapidly discoy-
ering the impositions they practice.