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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10
LIVING RENT FREE.
Philadelphia Man Who Went Broke
Because He Did Not Pay.

A Philadelphia man has lived ten
years in n house for which he paid no
rent and no taxes. 1t belonged to the
gas company, and he had paid rent reg
ularly until the property of the compa-
ny was transferred to the city. He says
himself: Il don't remember how long
1t is since | stopped paying rent. 1t
was when the gas office was on 7th
street. l went there one day with my
rent and offered it to Mr.. White, who
had charge of the gas company's real
estate, but he refused to take it, and
told me that it was to be paid at the
city ~treasurer's office in the future. |
o 1t up there and a young man there
said he could not take it, as he couldn't
find record of any such a house. He
told me that they would notify me
when they were ready to take my
money. went back to Mr.. White and
he advised me to 60 home and wait I'M
I'll heard from them. Well, | waited"
Nobody came to collect money until re-
Gently, when the city discovered its
utle n sem a man to collect. The ten
ant got a day to consider and promptly
skipped. But his experience with a
free rent does not seem to be satisfac-
tory If we may trust to his wife. Yes"
says she, resentfully, 'he thought it
was n snap, and look where he is now
mo money, no business, looking for a
)oo' n a family to support. He
wouldn't take my advice and move to
where business was good, but he
Rugged his snap and stuck here in that
stagnant neighborhood and spent
money on repairs for the house and
didn't make any money."-Philadelphia
Record.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10

valleys grow the sugar cane, cacao,
bananas, plantains, and, in fact, all
sorts Of tropical fruits.
With its beautiful scenery, its almost
perfect climate, its %boundless eXuber-
ance and range of vegetable products,
and consequent facilities for subsist-
ence with the minimum of labor. Porto
Rico may we'll be termed an earthly
paradise. If that were all; If its people
were Intelligent and compaiOnable; if
Its government We're as mild and eQua-
bile as its climate; and if there were
united effort here tending toward the
Improvement of society and the amelio-
ration of political burdens, then it
might be so regarded. But, while ma
u + has done everything for this isl
and, while a great portion of its 5000
square miles car be put under cultiva-
ton. and there ought to be enough to
subSlst many more than Its 100000 in
hahitants in comfort, the men and the
n whom accident of discovery
placed in power has done worse than
nothing for its development. Poverty
exists everywhere, since the taxes are
so oppressive, administered. as the gov
eminent is, by alien office-holders, as
sisted by foreign soldiery.
AS in Cuba, the people have been for
centuries trodden under foot. They
have groaned beneath the weight of
their burdens, have in vain protested
against their numberless outrages. If
Cuba has been long regarded as Spain's
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10

ern tip of Cuba, opens northward the
magnificent harbor of San Juan de
Puerto Rico-Saint John of the Rico
or Noble Port distant from New York
about LOGO miles, and from the Danish
Island of st. Thomas but sixty miles,
the last-named lying that much farther
to the eastward.
Porto Rice was discovered by Column
bus, In 1903, on his second VOYAGE,
when on his way from the southern
West Indies to his original landing
place on the coast of Hayti. Fifteen
years after the passing of Columbus
came another navigator, one Juan
Ponce de Leon, the governor of n PROV
II C of Santo Domingo, sixty miles dis
tant. The Indians of this section told
him wonderful stories of the rich island
across the channel, and In the year l5QS
ne landed at Aguadilla with n force of
men and a pack of hloodhounds. bent
upon Its conquest, Ponce de Leon lives
In history as the nobleSt and the gen.
TEST of those galllard adventurous. And
he was-that is, speaking relatively
he was noble and gentle for n Spaniard
of that day. But he saw nothing wrong
In putting to death the Indian chieftain
Agueynaba, who first showed him the
rivers with sands running gold, nor in
setting on the trail of lnocent women
and children his famous bloodhound
berezillo, who drew the pay of n bow
man for his service, and who tore 70
pieces every Indian he ran down and
overlook. lie was the terror of nil the
Indians, whom he drove to the hills in
troops, but was finally slain with a po,-
soned arrow sent after him by n Garth
Ponce de Leon and his mail-clad sol.
diers finally settled on the present site
of San Juan in 1911. and the most in.
teresting relic to be found there today
Is the ancient building called the Casa
Blanca" which was built by the con-
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10

construction that will soon connect all
the chief coast towns and open up por-
lions of the interior.
The island is about a5 miles In length
by IS or 40 In breadth. and as nearly
rectangular US nature viii allow In Its
coast line. The interior Is one vast
group of mountains The soil every.
where is very fertile and cultivable.
even 20 the mountain crests, the hill
pastures of Porto Rico being celebrated
for their %succulent grasses, upon which
feed cattle and horses, which are favor.
lies throughout the Islands south
Among the hills also are thousands of
cafctales, or coffee estates. for hero the
coffee finds congenial soil and climate
for its perfect development, and is A
source OF profit to many planters who
prefer n life OF comparative leisure 10
the hustle Of the town and city. In the
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10

Inc marine docks Mt Portsmouth,
England, are the vastest in the world,
covering more than 300 acres, and EN-.
ploylng some 10000 men. Two of the
largest docks are COO feet long and s.
rect broad. All are what Is known as
stone craving docks. They are dug
OUT or a sufficient depth, .angth and
width, to enable vessels of a certain
SIZE TO be admitted. They are con
structed of granite and fitted with
heavy gates: the vessel Is flooted inro
the dock and properly shored I'D on the
keel olocks-the gates are closed-the
water then pumped out. Such docks
are all below the level of the dock ward.
ihe walls are built with stairs like
TIE seats In an amphitheater, so that
"orklnen may go up and down: and
great cranes lifting forty tons are used
III handling materials. When n vessel
Is completed, all that Is necessary TO
launch her is to open the gates, fill the
uock. INT she floats out without risk or
ouo The advantage of n number
Vi JOCKS Mt a station is the readiness
WIN which a small vessel may be nut
Ih'o a small dock and a large vessel in
10 a large n at once, this being done
WIN so much economy of time and Ia.
oor'-Provtdence Journal.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10

the United States is either reserved mr.
appropriated. The area still remain,ng
vacant amounts to 591. 343.953 Acres
without including Alaska, which is
supposed to embrace nearly 4OO,OnOO0O
acres more. The entire area of tho
United States is placed at 1.S3J.O7e 500
acres. OF this, III. 702.365 acres is nov
owned by individuals or by corporo.
lions or by states, or has passed orr ~
the control of the general government
The amount reserved for schools In.
dians. military and naval
railroad grants, parks, forest reserya.
tons. etc, including all TERRITORY re-
served from sale for any purpose What.
soever, amounts to 1872. All, IA acres 90
that, taking the reserve land and rho
vacant land together, only about ono.
half of the area of the United States
has actually passed out of control of
the government, and If Alaska is in.
Guided. the ~unoccupied area is larger
by Soo,OOO,OOO acres than that which !.
occupied.|San Francisco Argonant
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10
SCENE IN SAN JUAN HARBOR.

One other on the north coast Is Are
cibo; on the east are Humacao and Fa-
janlo, on the west AguadillA and Maya
guez, as beautiful as the heart of man
could desire, with their gushing springs
and background of pointed mountains,
and on the south coast are Arroyo
Guayanilla and Ponce. This last is the
largest. the city having n population of
about $4,000, with u vast export trade,
chiefly in sugar and molasses. \ fine
post road connects 1t with San Juan.
running ~diagonally across the island.
with Il daily diligence between the two.
y system of railroads Is in course of
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10
The Hand.

Montaigne gives a curious and inter
estihg account of the intellectual uses
10 which the hand is put. He says:
WIN the hand We demand, we prom
lse' we call, dismiss, threaten. entreat.
suppiicate' deny, refuse, interrogate.
ADMIRE reckon, confess, repent: express
rear express shame, express doubt: we
instruct command, write. encourage
swear testify, accuse, condemn. ac1uit.
insult despise, defy, dlsdain. fatter,
applaud bless, abuse. ridicule, c o
cue recommend, exalt, regale, gladden.,
complain, afiiict, discomfort. discour-
age' astonish, exclaim, Indicate silence.
ana VIVA not, with a variety and null
upication that keep pace with the
tongue
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10

the placid waters of a beautiful and al,
most land-locked harbor. This harbor
Is n of the finest in the West Indies,
large, sheltered. and capable of accom-.
modating any number of the largest
ships, giving anchorage in from three
to six fathoms.
Though the main portion of San Juan
Is Enclosed within the walls, through
which entrance is only obtained by
wel-guarded gateways, yet there is a
small town by itself in the Marina, be-
tween the Notifications and the
wharves. Here is Il fine public garden
and pleasure palace, with booths and
restaurants, as well as the public cock
pit, where battles royal are frequently
waged. The buildings of the inner CITY
are of stone, massive and substantial.
like those of Havana and the CITY of
Mexico.
AS to local conditions. San Juan ts
not an attractive city, under its present
management, owing to its filthy streets
and lack Of attention to sanitation. II
Is likely to have n visit every year from
Yellow Jack, when, owing to Its situa.
ton. he might as we'll as not be kent at
a distance. But San Juan Is only one
port of the island, and there are some
harbors that are a. fine, if not as large
and land-locked.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10
HARBoR AND FoRT1FIcATIoNs OF SAN A

quistador and occupied by him while
governor Of the island. Equally ancient
with the Casa Blanca are the fortified.
tons surrounding the city of san Juan.
for their foundations We're laid during
the reign of Ponce de Leon. The cant
tai city, with a population of some 10
600, occupies an island, connected
with the main by a bridge and a cause
way, and is completely inclosed within
massive walls OF stone and hardened
mortar, with n height in places of from
90 TO 100 feet. Like Havana, II has its
moro, or citadel literally a. round or
Moorish tower, and the fortifcations
are on q comprehensive scale, with
bastions and drawbridgeS ornate sen.
try boxes hanging over the sea, and
grim, gray walls towering threatening.
ly. One may find their counterpart. on
q smaller scala In the old fort at St
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10
United States Legation in ne,,,n

The United States government has
oeen inquiring through the proper
hanne as to the cost of purchasing or
erecting Its own buildings for the am.
slssies and legations and several Of the
large consulates-general in Europe. 1,
may astonish many to learn that Rer.
IN was found the most expensive can
ital IN the world, so far as the cost ~
reaI estate and of buildings was con.
eerned. The only really suitable build.
ING round there for the purpose would
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10
A Curious Hoo pan

w. I. Harmon, living on the DAYS
MIL turnpike near Tilton, has in use n
very curious but convenient hog non
Inc pen Is nothing more than a hnca
sycamore tree, which is hollow. and
furnishes sleeping quarters for at least
twenty large-sized porkers. The troe
mas been used for its present purnose
Tor over ten years, and during that t,ns
over LOO hogs have been raised in it
tlemingsburg Ky.l Gazette.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10
EVER FOR FREEDOM,

cost $4,000. The Russian embassy
building in Berlin, which is located
Inter den Linden, and which is, in.
deed, a veritable palace, so spacious
and stately is it, would cost about s.,
100000 to build to-day, ground and all.
But it is, too, roomy and elegant enough
to have served repeatedly for travelling
quarters for Russian Cars passing
through Berlin. What a miserable con.
trast forms the excuse for an office
which the United States embassy occu.
pies in Berlin, in Kronen strasse, a
street of small shops. In the basement
of the building is a barber shop, on the
ground floor a wine and schnapps shop
and above the embassy offices reside a
score of private persons.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10
INSTRUMENTATION in aus,-a,,,

Ihe following account of the pronar
way OF reaching the Klondike is taken
ron an Australian newspaper: The
real starting point for the Klondn.o 70
spokane. There the traveller takes /.
canoe by which he voyages to yon.
eouVer' II. c. At the latter point no
taxes a sailing vessel direct to Dawson
City" "S'n
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10

Augustine; and they are similar to
those of Havana before her walls were
torn down. The p%eninsular upon which
the MORO and the lighthouse stand is
thrust out into the sea- Oh one side
b~reasting the laundering surges of the
Caribbean, and on the other guarding
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10

spects Porto Rico is the real gem of
the Antilles. Men who have lately tray
eled In this beautiful island agree In
expressing surprise that so little is
known concerning its many wonders
and charms.
About 1000 miles due southeast from
Havana, 500 from Cape Maisi, the east
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10
3L2T0 OURFUTJIRE
RlG9( B05E@5D0n=

Regardless of the differing views as
to u ultimate disposition of island
territory taken from Spain, it is
thought by many that the United
States will hold Porto Rico. BY doing
so we will acquire one of the garden
spots of the tropics. for in many re-
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10
The Left Side of the Face.

photographers, in their constant
study OF the face, find that the left side
makes the more pleasant picture, and
mat the profile as seen from the left
gives a o correct likeness than
"nen viewed from the right
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10

II may oe a good idea to belong TO n
lodSe' you are sure then that someone
VIII sit up with your remains when
you 7 dead. "ueA
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10

Vacant Land in the United States.
The report of the Secretary of the In
terror shows that only a little more
than one-half of the public domain of
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10
Ouudone.

Two CHASTITY shapes came stealing from
y deep and ancient grave:
They heard the never-silcnt hum
That marks the human wave.
They heard the n~ewsboys' strident shout
And one did stop and buy;
And through the sheet thus hawked ahou,
He scanned with eager eye.
And as he read the headlines DER.
His n c grew peaked and pale.
And when he'd read a little more.
He Grasped the nearest rail.
"%Sapphira, dear" ne family cried.
This war news, bold and brash,
Convinces me We never lied
Our records gone to smash.'
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10

III ~ninety-seven carriages at So to IS
apiece. He is bundled into a box and
carried by a couple of men to the place
where the huzzards wait for him, and
that is the last of him.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10

mich COW, so also has Porto Rico, and
that the later has not already risen in
successful revolt. Is owing, no to the
temper of the people, but to the impos-
sibility for n revolution to succeed.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10
No Hearse or Grave in Siam.

When a poor man dies In Siam ha ,s
not k to the grave in a plumed
hearse, with friends following behind
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10

as SHOWN. Open, 1t affords an operating
taole' with the medicine chest and sur.
geon's cas- handy.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10

Useful on Battlefielrs.
This pannier is for use on battlefield
When closed it is carried on a mule,
The Conservative, 1898-09-22

behalf of conservatism as the men
against whom he enters the lists. Mr..
Morton will give us the romanticism of
CharleseliotnOrtOnism and LarrygOd-
kinism, and we shall owe him much
gratitude if he shall succeed in making
entertaining those things which are now
an affection. So much for Morton. His
paper is packed full of good matter that
must work, if it can be gotten into the
heads of the pessimist population of the
West, for the broadening of good citiz-
enship, and for the disarming of the
demagogues who have been a worse
plague to the West than blizzards,
prairie fires, grasshoppers, booms, mort
cages and ''bum' banking. Mr.. Nor
tons paper should succeed he has per-
sonality enough to bring it into national
prominence. The Mirror calls The Con-
SENTATIVE to the attention of the think
ing people. Such papers are needed in
the West, where the whimperers, the
winners and the whangdoodlers have
had things their own way for so long
that mental political health has almost
come to be regarded as moral disease
St. Louis Mirror.
The Conservative, 1898-09-22
CURRENT COMMENT.
Astronomy In the United States.

In no country has there been a keener
interest in astronomical science and no.
where has there been more devoted and
skillful research into the mysteries of
the skies than here. We have the two
largest refracting telescopes in the
world, and in the possession of instru-
ments of the next grade, we stand
among the three foremost peoples in the
world. In the number of important dis
coveries made during the last quarter
of a century we compete favorably with
any other. In that important branch of
the science known as spectroscopy we
are a little behind our contemporaries,
but in all other directions, including
stellar photography, u record is a
magnificent one. Among the more cele.
brated men, the names Of Newcomh,
darkness, Hall, Davidson, Langley,
Young and Elkin are famous worldwide
and among the younger aspirants such
students as Pickering, Todd, Keller,
Barnard. Burnham, Comstock, Lowell
and others equally deserving are almost
as we'll KIN pwn and honored.
An important step in the organization
of astronomical work in the United
States has just been taken in the forma-
ton Of an astronomical society similar
to the Royal Astronomical society Of
Great Britain. 1t is worth while that
this great science should be represented
with more dignity than as a mere
branch of the American Association
For the Advancement Of Science. The
special utilization of men working in
the same direction is in line with that
differentiation of work so important for
effective research. 1t will more effective
The Conservative, 1898-09-22


There is left still some idealism, some
of the spirit of doing a thing because it
is right to do it, and not because it
promises profit. Imagine a paper called
The CONSERVATIVE, published in Ne
braska City, Neb., in the home and
haunt of Mr.. Bryan, and the heart of
the political "bad lands - yet there it is,
in something the same form as The
Nation of New York, with much of the
same spirit, but without, I regret to
say, the New York papers excellence of
makeup, and without, 1 am glad to
say, that tinge of yellow, which is Us
wearisome in ultra reactionism as it is
in the dcmanec journalism of the new
school. THE CONSERVATIVE is for the gold
standard, for merit as the test in the
civil service, for free trade and for free
shade, for it has the excellent forestry
hobby, for municipal reform, for the
rights of the rich as well as the rights
of the poor, for law and order, for high
class, intelligent common sense-it
stands, in a word, for American, social,
industrial, economic and political sanity.
1t is not a ''plutocratic' paper. 1t is
edited by a man long known as the
friend of the farmer, an agriculturist,
all abOriculturist, a hOrticulturist, and a
gentleman who happily combines with
oil thncn n111tc of tho oman dir, fhn n1I-
ture of the library and the study. His
name is j. Sterling Morton. He IA a
member of Mr.. Cleveland's second cabi-
net and a most puzzling individual to
the misunderstanding many, who could
not reconcile themselves to the blend in
him, as vulgarly phrased, of "the dude
and the jay" Mr.. Morton has the ro-
mantle, roccoco sympathies of a popu-
list tempered by the eminently hard
headed and stiff backed nationality of
MI. Cleveland. And so he represents,
in a double barreled fashion, what
Henri LabOuchere has called "the new
chivalry'' of the United States, in which
there are intermlxed QuiXotism and
shrewdness, imagination and reason.
The CONSERVATIVE is a paper that
should focus and render effective for
good, in national affairs, the saner senti-
ment of the West as against the ever
recurring mania in politics, which seems
to be generated in Kansas, like the
cholera in India. Mr.. Morton is just the
man to take a tilt at the windmills of
the West, being touched with the spirit
which, in varying forms, may be incar-
mated in such dissimilar entities as John
j. Ingalls, and William Jennings Bryan.
We may expect Mr.. Morton to make
himself as picturesque a personality in