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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-14
BLAZE IN G. N. BUILDING.
Discovered In the Basement and
Quickly Extin Guished.

A blaze was discovered in one of the
offices on the third floor of the Great
Northern office building shortly before
o'clock this morning. 1t was put out
quickly. The damage was trif1ing
Some electro wires were across the
box where the flames were discovered.
1t is supposed that this explains the
origin.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

Public events that have come home
this nation seem to call for a repet tion
of the homely aphorism, Honesty is
the best policy" If there were no
| Christian religion, If thou shalt not
steal" had never been inscribed in holy
writ the truth would still hold good
that the risk Of dishonesty is out of all
proportion to any possible gain. 1t is
said that most newspaper men ara pes
simists-that they are, as a class, cruel
and unfeeling. There may be some
thing in the charge. Their work brings
them in contact with so much that is
insincere, with so much of misery, with
so much of crime, that, unless they be
broad enough to understand that their
lives are narrow, they are prone ito
think the world Is made up of these
things. But the newspaper man usually
learns early that honesty is the best
policy" Almost daily he comes in con
tact with the hardship, the disgrace
and the misery that follow dishonesty
setting sun. A trusted employe sudden
ly resigns" and when the reporter
comes to look into the facts he finds
sorrowful employer, crushed and pen
itent eX-employe and family, half
crazed with a grief that is worse than
death, imploring that nothing be print
ed of the matter. Nothing appears about
1t in the paper of course, but the young
man, short in his accounts never re-
covers from the blow. A building as
its managers, a commercial enterprise
has been wrecked by dishonest prac-
tees, in almost any Of the cases that
occur, always comes the same stagger-
ing load Of sorrow and shame We are
in the world to gain as much of happi-
ness as we can. Let any one look among
those he knows best and ask himself
who, among them, are the happy ones.
Invariably he finds them to be the ones
that have lived the best lives according
Whether they be rich or poor seems to
make little difference in the sum OF
happiness they are able to extract from
life. If their records be clean. if they
have nothing to be ashamed Of, If they
possess the proud consciousness that
they have accomplished good In the
world, If they have the confidence and
respect Of those that know them, riches
beyond comfortable competence can
make little difference in their happi.
ness.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

silver maple WOOD, bearing the natural
bark, and its ornament consisted OF
three heavy gold bands, or rings, en-
circling the shaft at equal distances.
What made it remarkable was the
self-evident fact that the bands had
been put on when the branch from
which the handle was made was part
of living tree, and much smaller in
diameter. The wood had grown
through and around the confning
metal and bulged out at either side
producing an odd and striking effect
ut took me four years to get the ma
terial ready for this umbrella handle"
said the proud owner. II live in the
, suburbs of St Louis and have several
fine maple. trees on the premises. In
1893 the idea occurred to me, and |
had a jeweler make me these three
rings, which l slipped over small
branch and tied at the proper distance
with cords. 1 had to select a very di-
minutive branch, because otherwise
the twigs would have prevented the
rings from going on, and | picked out
one pretty high up so it would be out
of the way of pilferers. Then | wait
ed patiently for nature to clinch the
bands by process of growth. l said
nothing about the experiment, and the
family often wondered why in the
world l climbed that tree so often.
am a travelling man, and whenever l
returned from the road would lose no
time in taking look at my prospec-
tive umbrella handle. 1t was slow
work, however, and the fall of 1897
had rolled around before l finally cut
the branch. Then 1 turned it over to
an expert, who kept it ten months
longer, seasoning and polishing it, and
bending the upper end into the crook,
which was done by a process of steam
ing. The result is what you see.
am convinced it is the only thing of its.
kind in the world, and l take good care
to keep it away from umbrella
thieves. New Orleans Times Demo-
crat
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03
YOUNG VANDERBILT TO WE'D.
His Bride-to-Be, Elsie French, Is of an
Ancient Family.

His Bride-to-Be, Elsie French, Is of an
Ancient Family.
An important society event at some
still undeterminate date will be tie
marriage Of Alfred Gwynne Wander
bit, head of the Vanderbilt mill. .ons,
and Miss Elsie French, whose engage
ment was recently announced.
Young Vanderbilt was boln in 1877
and graduated from Yale in 1899. He
was making tour of the world and
had reached Japan when his father
died. Returning home, he found that
his father had passed by his eldest son,
Cornelius j., and had left the entire
fortune of $100,000,O0O to himself. Very
generously, however, Alfred Gwynne
disregarded this arrangement and turn
ed over some $7,000,000 to his brother.
This action was noble one. A fam.l
feud over the distribution Of the VAN
derbilt interests would inevitably have
affected many innocent persons who
were interested in Vanderbilt proper
ties. 1t seemed proper and CO. rect
enough to settle all dispute by giving
away kings ransom, but how many
young men are there just out of college,
who could have done it so quickly and
so gracefully. Alfred Gwynne is "a mod
est young man and is said to have in
herted the Vanderbilt genius for
finance.
Young Vanderbilt inherited the Van
derbilt millions in accordance w tn the
traditions of the family. AT tie Cea h
of o!d Commodore Vanderbilt. the
founder of the family, the bulk of his
fortune passed to his son. Villa II.
Vanderbilt, who was said to have in
herted about $75,00O,OO0 at the age Of
56.
When William H. Vanderbilt ed he
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

at the court house elevators waiting
to be carried up to the several court
rooms remind one that it Is domestic
scandal day, and if anything else is
wanted to convince one of that fact, a
glance at the excited faces will fur
nish evidence. 1t is pulling and haul
ing to secure the most available seats,
and when they are secured these. faces
say. Now, ring up the curtain"
Meanwhile and during the lulls a
woman may be seen plying her knit
ting needles, and a man here and there
scanning faces, as If trying to make a
selection for a wife-his third of
fourth, more or less. So the divorce
court Is place not only where matri.
monial ties are severed, but also where
they are originated.
Whether men are, on the whole.
more manly than women are womanly
has always been an open question, but
1t is true, according to the records of
the divorce courts, not only in Chica-
go, but everywhere else, that the aver
age man will bear about every indig-
nifty before he will face the publicity
of a divorce trial. 1t is equally true
that nearly all men will avoid making
the charge of faithlessness if some
thing else can be used to secure the
desired end. He has thousand times
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

All the momentary indications to the
contrary Notwithstanding, we venture
the assertion with great confidence
that never were character and a good
name of as much value as business as
sets as they are to-day. Time was
when by change of environment and
the formation of new connections a
business man who had kept within the
Revised Statutes to the extent of keep
ing out of Jail could balance the record
Of his past and open Il new account
with fortune. This Is becoming in
creasingly difficult. The very perfect
machinery of investigation maintained
by the commercial agencies, supple
mented by the even more searching
analysis of the associations of manu-
facturers, merchants and financial in
stitutions formed for mutual informa-
ton and protection, give the man with
a shady past or n record clouded by
wrongdoing very little chance to es-
cape recognition, however disguised.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03
DIVORCE CASES DRAW
CURIOUS ~CROWDS FLOCK TO
CHICAGO COURTROOMS
All Sorts of Types Ranged In Exhibi-
tion-Busybodie Prominent Among
Visitors-Stern and Gentle Sexes Have
Their Own Fancies and Foibles.

When Moses was building up a sys-
tenn Of laws for the government of his
people he decided that it should be law
ful for a man to write his wife a bill
Of divorce and send her out of his
house If she proved to be disappointing,
but he made no provisions for the wife
to shut the door against the husband.
But customs as well as laws have un-
dergone a radical change since Moses
time. The rule in these degenerate days
is to recognize the fact that woman has
reached about as great distance from
the jungle as man has, and another
fact is made clear that four women
undertake to send their husbands out
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

lures find the supreme heights of their
hearts delight in pathetic, in brutal
and in coldly Indifferent rec.tals of the
mlsfortunes Of husbands and wives.
A study Of the faces of the habi-
tues of divorce courts is likely to make
one believe that the process of evolu-
ton has been reversed in them, and
that they are grinding at the mills of
involution, the grist of which is
hearts that are happiest when misery,
disappointment and cruelty are haul
ing others to and fro in the slough Of
social and domestic slime and filth.
Such habitues are mostly women
women who have no interest there ex-
cept to feed their minds upon the stor-
les that fall from the witness stand.
Perhaps so, and perhaps not, many OF
them belong to the ranks of the legally
separated, but, If their facial express
sion, either in repose or in expectancy,
indicates anything, it says they do be-
long there, and even the casual student
of human nature would be constrained
to congratulate their late matrimonial
partners on their escape from such
barbarians.
Every Saturday morning the crowds
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03
HOW SHE WON FATHER.
The Old Man Was Amused at Her
Little Deceit.

This Piety hill family is rich. infuen.
tial and free from the weaknesses of
the parvenu. The daughter in quest on
has an admirer who pleases her But
she is the only one in the whole domes-
tic circle who is under the spe | of his
attractions He is fine fellow, perhaps
a bit too fine, for he has some very old
fashioned ideas and lives up to them.
The other day she had Il battle to have
him with them for dinner, says the De-
troit Free Press.
They had just begun to enjoy the
soup when he turned to the father and
effusively thanked him for picture re-
ceived as birthday present. 1t was as
dainty ana pretty piece of work as he
had seen In long while. and it was
particularly welcome from her father.
All but one Of his hearers, father in
cluded, looked stunned. He cleared his
throat and, while sparring for time,
caught the eye of the favorite daughter.
1t was shining, knowing, and command
ing.
"Ah, yes, yes; glad you liked it," And
the head of the house deliberately
burned himself with the soup.
What was it?' And the mother
lowered the temperature of the room
until the more timid shivered
Il presume 1t was water COLOR
said the daughter. hurriedly. Some
thing pastoral, no doubt. George likes
such things, Dark frame, of course"
Guessed II the first time" smiled the
father.
at was so good OF YOU" murmured
the visitor.
You darling old popsy," she whisper
ed after dinner. 81 knew you'd under.
stand. We never show him any kind
ness, so just went down and bought
that picture and enclosed your card
Isn't he grateful?"
1t tickled the Old gentleman. He felt
important and like protector. Before
the family separated for bed he made
an emphatic announcement that the
daughter should marry any one she
wanted to and he would allow no inter-
ference.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

Massachusetts, 5,562 are residents of
the State and SS.37 per cent. are resi-
dents Of the North Atlantic division.
The colleges in Oregon draw 99S7 per
cent. of their students from the Pacific
coast and $500 come from the State. 1t
is safe to assume that most of these
students would have to do without a
collegiate education were it not for the
small colleges in Oregon. The report
of the University of Michigan excel
lently illustrates the truth of Dr. But
ler's contention. Although the Univer-
sity of Michigan draws from all the
world, yet of it's 3,447 students 2,OO9
are reported as residents of the State.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

In his monograph prepared for the
educational exhibit of the United States
mt the Paris exposition Prof. Nicholas
Murray Butler feels called upon TO JUS
tify the multiplicity OF small colleges
which Is often the subject of foreign
criticism. There are II2, and he ad-
mits that the number is enoromus and
that many are small and weak and i'll
endowed, and that the criticisms
against the existence of many are jus.
titled. Yet he says 1t should not be for
gotten that almost any college exerts
a helpful influence upon the life of its
locality. The fact is frequently over
looked that all American colleges de-
Jend for their student attendance in
large measure upon the residents Of
their own immediate nelghborhood.
Few draw from the nation at large,
and even In these few the greater nun.
Der of the students are from within the
institutions own State or the limits OF
their own section OF, the country. For
example, OF the 27,956 students attend.
ing colleges in the North Atlantic dlvi.
sion of the United States 26,393, or
p4.41 per cent, are residents OF the
States included In that division. or
the $500 students In the colleges Of
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

left the bulk of his fortune to his eldest
son, Cornelius, who inherited d n r
Seo'ooO,oOO at the age of ~. And now
Alfred Gwynne has inherited 500, 600
900 from his father, the latter cutting
on the elder son because of the latter's
marriage, which disp!eased the father
His bride-to-be is a daughter of the
late ormond French, who was tenth in
descent from Edward French. one os
the founders of Ipswich, Mass. in 1876
She is an heiress in her own right and
is an athletic young woman, with n
fondness for sailing, riding. swimming
and tennis. She was playmate of hd,
future husband in her childhood and ia
81 years old.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

greater horror of the public knowing
that he "has been fooled" than wo-
man has for her husbands faithless-
ness. The science of social economy
shows that to be true. Still. there are
exceptions, of course, which are to be
expected as long as n man and a wo-
man are to be found here and there
who do not hesitate to break up their
marriage relations deliberately ald
purpOsely.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

There is bound to be a reaction
against the present popular form of
nction, with it's duelng duchesses, gam
bling prlncesses and abnormally ar
dent lovers. The realists will have
their day and we shall know just how
Evelina felt when she went to market
in the morning, and just how the car
rots and cabbages We're arranged in
the grocer's window. There is much
to be said for these still water come
dies, and even the relation between the
housekeeper and her grocer is full of
psychological subtleties. For the gro
Ger knows exactly what his customers
standard of crispness, both in life and
IN lettuce, is, and just what degree of
wiltedness II will be possible for her
to endure. 1t is time that the world
realized that the eternal love theme Is
not the only legitimate subject for
novels. All of the lanes of life are not
lovers lanes, with the altar and orange
blossoms at the end of them. There
are some pretty sequestered paths
where platonic friends love to wander
and where all sorts of lofty relation
ships are formed. 1t would be crafty
ing TO many readers should the novel
lists take to these paths when in pur-
suit of subject matter.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

Prince Alexis Dolgoroukoff has been
in this country investigating the stand
ing Of American capitalists for the
Russian government. If he limited his
researches to a consideration of the
tax lists he found that American capi-
talists are generally very poor lot
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

An italian opera company is reported
to have been wiped out by yellow fever
in Brazil, but some mean people will
probably claim that the chorus died
of old age.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

of the house to one man who tries the
game. And because the one will not
move out at the bidding of the other
the strong arm of the law is appealed
to to expedite the going.
Nor are the ethics of tearing matri-
nOnial ties into tatters considered a
whit more seriously at this day than
they were thousands of years ago. In
fact, it was not very much of an ethical
question then, nor is it now. Then it
was wife ownership by the husband,
and to-day, according to the secular
laws, the relation between husband
and wife is largely one Of dissoluble
partnership by petition by either one. of
the parties In interest to judicial au-
thority. The judicial authority orde; s
that the partnership be continued or
dissolved, and when the court has
spoken its decree is enduring if the dis
solution of the partnership is COM
manded, but if not the bellgerents
surely will continue the la tie in an
other judicial ring.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03
GREW HIS UMBRELLA STOCK.

Infinite Pains of st. Louisan Be-
slowed Upon a Maple Sapling.
A guest Of one OF the principal hotels
yesterday exhibited a curious and
beautiful umbrella handle to party
of admiring friends. 1t was q crook Of
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

Word comes from Texas that a cy-
clone recently picked up a girl, carried
her half mile and put her down
without even bruise. Texas cyclones
have now done nearly everything but
hatch out eggs and churn the butter.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

"Bobs" is still the way the English
papers refer to Lord Roberts, although
they confess he's made a bigger name
for himself.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

The latest thing in railway inven-
tions Is a cigar-shaped train. 1t is
being puffed by some of the scientific
journals.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

There Is a movement on foot to or
ganize a banana trust. 1t will require
no Supreme Court to take the hide off
that
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03
Hear Cases on Saturdays.

The Chicago courts, says the Chron-
icle, devote Saturdays to hearing di-
vorce cases, and the mills of these judi
cial gods go at Il very rapid rate, but
not carelessly or with Indifference.
Doubtless very many peop.e will be
are granted every year by the Ch cago
courts, and as they hear such cases
only one day in the week 1t Is found
that after deducting holidays the week
too, that four-hfths of the petitions are
filed by women, and nine-tenths of the
charges are drunkenness, cruel eat
ment and abandonment.
Nearly all men applicants for divorce
make charges against their wives un-
der the guise of "incompatibility.
Only occasionally, except in cases Of
abandonment, does a defendant let the
case go against him or her by default.
There seems TO be streak in the ma
ture of such people that forces them
to wind up their matrimonial relations
by tlinging mud, so that the other one
shall go out into the world besmirched
with suspicion and branded with let
ters that spell vicious" "devilish," )"
"beastly," "fiendish.' When such cases
are on the boards the crowd of specta-
tors is always large, for the play deals
only in pertidy, hypocrisy, falsehood,
mud-tlinging, cussedness and human
depravity.
1t is said that some men and more
women are afflicted with mania to
attend funerals, and that 1t matters lit
tie to them whether it be funeral of a
friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
1t Is enough for them to know that II
Is funeral, and that they are I'm IT.
and enjoying the pleasure Of the
mournful occasion. But however much
Il funeral may charm some people, one
must go to divorce court when facts
which should not be voiced In public
are being told.
There the article that gladdens the
heart Of such people most is given out
Raw and by wholesale. There these yul.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

A contemporary asks in an editorial
headline Were our ancestors black Z"
Some of their deeds were-very.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

A cycle path for wheelmen mar be
considered a good thing on the side.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

At last all is made clear. He Is called
the unspeakable Turk because money
talks.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

Some people go through life looking
as II they Were sorry they had ever
started.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

Nothing succeeds like the success Of
a man who has q political pull
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-03

cHAs. F. g. ADA f. soULE, rubs.
Ameryka. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1893-1902, 1900-03-03
-PodC Cheyenne, Wyo., W kopa

-PodCheyenne, Wyo., W kopal-
mach marmuru nalezacych do kolei
"Union Pacific" kilku robotnikow
staraio sic "a pomoca goracej wody
doprowadzic do odtajania dynami.
tu, kiedy nastapifa gwaitowna eks-
plozya, ktora zrzadzifa wprawdzie
mafs tylko szkode materyalna, ale
W skutek kt6rej dwaj robotnicy
zostali zabici, a trzej pokaleczeni.
Zabici zostali Robert Parker John
Boulangez; smiertelnie pokalecze.
nj George Parfrey i Paul Forgan,
a lei skaleczony James Edwards.
Ameryka. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1893-1902, 1900-03-03
TOLEDO, OHIO, soBOTA MARCIA, 1900

Cronje opierai sic Anglikom
tax dlugo " tym celu, aby dac
sposobnost innym oddzialom
burskim do skoncentrowania
sic okolo Bloemfontain.
I'Omasz Siemiradzki.