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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28
pickles and pumpkin pie-why, what's
the use Of cooking schools?

This is a witty age. Everything
tends to brevity. A few years ago the
short-story movement began. Then
public speakers learned that the longer
their "spiels" the shorter their intiu-
ence. They began to run the blue pen
Gil through their most swelling
thought and trim the edges of their
rhetoric. Now an orator who holds his
audience more than an hour is rarely
heard, preachers who go beyond twenty
minutes being voted bores. Who now
will read six-volume novel? The
Bookman says that the modern novel
seldom contains more than 10000
words, and 10000 is better. At the
same time sentences tend to shorten.
Hookers average sentence contained
Al words, Macaulay brought it down to
22 and Emerson to 20. Probably the
average in current penwork is less than
20. Cut it short. By any by we shall
talk in monosyllables, grunts or gasps.
We have no time to accumulate words
in sequence. Why use two words when
one will serve the turn? And why
waste a word when a look will suffice :?
We haven't time to talk. There is no
money in it.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

The Sons of the American Revolu-
tion in Hawaii recently offered a prize
for the best grafton, written and deliv-
cred In English, upon a specified his
oric theme. The competition was open
to every boy in the islands. Was II the
son Of Son, native Hawaiian, a
clever Japanese, a Portuguese of an
Client lineage who, at that cosmopolitan
crossroads of the Pacific, won the COW
eted prize? No, II was full-blooded
son OF that China which is now the po-
ntical problem of the world.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28
GREAT BRITAIN'S ELECTORATE.
1t Has Increased Nearly Sevenfold
During Victoria's Reign

1t Has Increased Nearly SevenfoId
During Victoria's Reign
When the queen came to the throne
there were less than a million electors
out of population of more than twen-
ty-five millions. That is as much to
say that only ID in every 100 adult
males were possessed Of the franchise.
And yet five years had passed since the
great reform bill had been placed upon
the statute book after an epoch-mak-
ing battle. To-day nearly 70 per cent
of the adult males in the United King
dom possess the franchise The in
crease in population, added to the in
crease In the percentage of representa-
tion, has, however, given us an electo-
rate of about six and three quarter
millions.
1t Is as well to note that during this
extraordinary development of the cleo
torate the elected representatives of
the people have scarcely increased in
number by score. In 1901, at the
union of the British and Irish parlia-
ments, there were 65S members of the
House of Commons. Disfranchisements
and suspensions of writs reduced the
number in actual practice to $40, round
about which figure it remained till Mr..
Gladstone in 1885 raised it to go, the
present total of the house.
1t is quite probable, therefore, that,
should the much-discussed manhood
suffrage" ever come into operation in
this country, 1t will not add single
member to the distinguished gathering
at st. Stephens. Nor, as a matter of
fact, will it add to the electorate itself
as large proportion as has been added
in the last thirty-three years. For in
that time so per cent has been added
to the rate of adult male representa-
ton. A mere 80 per cent more would
give every man over 81 a vote-if he
cared to use it.-London Express.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

Not only the living had special rules
governing their conduct, but the rules
about the dead were very quaint, as by
this report of a committee, May IL,
1780, to whom had been referred the
conduct of funerals, as follows:
Whereas, 1t is the opinion of this
town that funerals ought to be con-
Quoted with great decency and decorum
in order to impress on rising and risen
generations the Importance of the
awful solemnity, and to render the
house of mourning better than the
house Of feasting. Be it therefore rec
commended to all the inhabitants of this
town to observe the following regula-
tions at funerals:
l. That the relatives of the deceased
follow next the corpse, two and two.
2. If the deceased was a male per-
son the males are to follow next the
mourners, two and two, and the wom-
en- after them, two and two; but if the
deceased was woman, then the wom-
en- are to follow next the mourners and
the men after them.
3. Those on horseback are to follow
in after the foot folks, hores two and
two, and the carriages are to follow in
the rear of the procession. And it is
requested that no person walk or ride
on either side the procession from the
house to the grave.
Ten of the prominent men Of the city
were appointed and requested to attend
at funerals and to regulate the process
sion thus recommended until the same
shall become habitual to the people. In
1145 the question was raised in the an
nual town meeting 'if the town would
be at the expense of coloring the meet
ing house, and it passed in the mega
tive" Evidently they thought that
nature would do it without expense.
Not till 1749 were the forts and fortifi-
cations Of the town demolished and the
timber and boards sold for the benefit
of the town. Laws were passed rela-
tive to the schooling of boys and the
amount of wood they should bring to
the schoolhouse; girls were of no ac-
count in those days.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28
A Perplexed Celestial.

There Is young Chinaman in town
who Is studying medicine, and the
stories he has to tell about his expert
ences are often well worth hearing.
During the heated days of last Au-
gust he came home one afternoon look
ing decidedly disgusted.
"These American girls-they are so
funny" he said with n despairing little
gesture. "One come to me this morn
ing. She had very bad sun n-burned
neck and shoulders, and she wanted it
treated, say:
"'You get this out bathingr
"She say:
mol get 1t wearing lace yoke"
IL turn away. She say:
"'What you prescribeY
81 say:
"'Cloth yoke and go away from her.
She looked offended, but do not see
why. What else could l say? But
these American girls are very foolish" :"
and the clever young celestial shook his
head in despair of ever understanding
the vagaries OF girls who criticised
pinched feet, and went around the
streets with their shoulders practically
bare,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28
AUTOMATIC DxTAcHINa DEVICE.

Grating lever being attached to the run
ner in proximity to the pivot pin of the
foot plate, il order that the action Of
fitting the plate in either direction will
open or close the clamps. To place the
skates on the feet when the clamps
are once properly adjusted the foot
plate is fitted to the shoe and the skater
then rests his weight on the runner.
which causes the spring catch to en-
gage the plate and lock 1t securely. To
detach the skate the toe of the shoe Is
pressed against the catch and the foot
Is lifted, which tits the foot plate and
loosens the clamps.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28
Sneeze Wood,

Among its many peculiarlties South
Africa includes the "sneezewood" tree,
which takes Its name from the fact that
one cannot cut II with saw without
sneezing, as the fine dust has exactly
the effect of SNUFF, Even In planning
the wood II will sometimes cause
sneezing. No insect worm, or bar
nacle. will touch 1t; II is very bitter to
the taste. and its specific gravity Is
heavier than water. The color Is light
brown, the grain very close and hard
II Is a nice-looking wood, and takes a
good polish. For dock work, piers, or
jettles, II Is a useful timber lasting
long time under water.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28
1HE EREAklsH RIO eRANpE.
Two Illustrations in One Day of the
Queer Things 1t Can Do.


Two Illustrations in One Day of the
Queer Things 1t Can Do.
"To give you some idea of what sort
of river the Rio Grande is, I'll tell an
experience 1 had in getting across it
with DERRICK" said mining man
from New Mexico. "If after that you
don't agree with me that it is freak
ish river you're easy to suit. l was a
contractor in rock work in those days,
and was taking my derrick from the
east side of the river to the Magdalenas,
where l had contract to sink mine
shaft. The derrick was on, four wagon
wheels, and four mules were hauling it.
l had my two helpers along, and one OF
them, a man named Mccartney, drove
the mules. He was an old-timer, which
was lucky, for was new to the coun-
try, and if l had trusted to my own
judgment might have made a mistake
that would have cost me my mules and
derrick, if not my life.
I'VE came to the Rio Grande an hour
before sundOwn, and l saw wide
river bed, but no water only dry sand,
from one bank to the other. That was
a new kind of river to me, but McCart-
ney said it was all right; that it was a
way the Rio Grande had of doing in
places for five or six months in the year.
The water was there, only it was flow
ing through the sands under the chan
mel instead of in it. l, being tender
4 foot for. rincy on tha
bank where the grass was good, but
Mccartney said that would never do
unless | was willing to take my chances
of staying there week or two; that
water sometimes came down the .chan-
mel, a good deal of it, and it would be
well to get across while we were sure
we could.
1--WE started across over the dry
sands, and 1 was thinking what an easy
way it was of fording river when Of
a sudden the two lead mules were fioun-
dering in a quicksand and the whole
outfit came near being drawn in. We
got the two leaders clear of the harness
and then the other two mules drew
them out, one at time. We hitched
them up again, and by making a long
circuit got past the quicksand and to
the other bank. By that time it was 10
o'clock and the moon had just risen.
The mules had just begun to climb the
bank, when we heard a roaring noise
up the channel. 1t came from wall
Of water that stretched from bank TO
bank, and was travelling toward us
fast. 1t looked in the moonlight to be
four feet high, and there was higher
water behind sending it on. We didn't
need to holler to the mules. They heard
what was coming and clawed up the
bank like cats. We got out all right,
derrick and all-and there were not
three minutes to spare. Before we aad
finished our supper the river bed was.
full, bank high, with a current that
eddied and roared as it rushed past our
camping place as If 1t had been sorry
to miss us and would like to get up.
where we were. There wasn't cloud
in the sky, or sign of rain. anywhere,
and the food may have come from a
cloudburst in Colorado 200 miles away.
But it came near getting us. had
learned one lesson, and that was, In
travelling by wagon, always to camp.
on the further side of stream. And
had learned to put no trust in the Rio.
Grande."
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

Government by syndicate is repudlat.
ed In Newfoundland. A shrewd specu-
lator succeeded a year or two ago in
getting many Of the functions OF the
colonial government farmed out to him.
This year he planned to get fuller con-
ps,sl of the Legislature and complete
the process OF. turning the colony into
a stock company. The people have
however, defeated him overwhelmingly
and will retain what little self govern.
ment IS left to them. II indeed they
do not resume possession of much that
he has already taken.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28
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A factory for liquid air is being erect
ed at Los Angeles, Cal, for refriger-
ating purposes.
Careful experiments by Monsieur
Brunhes, in France, indicate that the
X-rays have a definite velocity which
is of the same order as the velocity of
fight.
There are 120 firms in Germany en-
gagged in the acetylene industry. Most
of the burners are made at Nuremberg.
There are no fewer than twenty-six
small towns in Germany lighted by
acetylene gas. The first plant of this
kind for lighting small towns in Ger
many was erected at Hassfurt, town
of $500 inhabitants.
In England lamp-post has been in
troduced which combines a fire hy-
Edrant, tap and fire-alarm box. The hy
drant can be used for fire purposes, fill
ing water carts and for street flushing,
while the small tap can be used by an
individual for domestic water supply.
There is water meter and siphon at
the bottom, by which the water Is shut
off from the hydrant, thus preventing it
from freezing.
According to a report published by
the Home Office In London showing the
mineral productions of the world for
the last year, the United States easily
leads all its rivals in this form of
wealth. Great Britain ranks second,
but far behind the leader, the total
product of the United States having
been about $72O,O0O,0O0, while that Of
Great Britain was $400,OO0,OO0. Ger
many stands third, with nearly $780,
100000.
Lord Rayleigh, in discussing our abil-
ity to tell the direction from which
sound proceeds, calls attention to an in
teresting difference between the eyes
and ears with regard to the size of the
waves that strike them. The average
wave length of light Is about one ten
thousandth Of the diameter of the pupil
of the eye. On the other hand, 1.-The
waves of sound issuing from a mans
mouth" says Lord Rayleigh, "are
about eight feet long, whereas the di-
ameter of the passage of the ear is
quite small and could not well have
been made a large multiple of eight
feet" One consequence of the minute
ness of light waves in comparison with
the size of the eyes is that the lenses
of the eyes are able to concentrate rays
of light upon the retina with great eff
cheney.
Prof. John Trowbridge has recently
had installed at Harvard University the
most powerful apparatus in the world
for the production of electro-motive
force. The plant comprises 10000 stor-
age cells giving 10000 electrical units
of pressure, and this can be increased
to 100000 volts. But in order to OBJ
tain the full effect of so enormous
pressure, Professor Trowbridge says it
would be necessary to remove the ap-
paratus into the center of an open field
and elevate 1t at least thirty feet from
the ground in order to avoid loss from
the inductlve action of floors and walls.
With this great battery the highest de-
gree of instantaneous temperature yet
attained can be produced. Professor
Trowbridge hopes with its aid to OBJ
tain some clew to the temperature at
which hydrogen exists in the stars.
This plant furnishes, he adds, an ideal
method of producing the X-rays.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28
Finger Nails and Gentility.

In China long finger nails are a mark
Of gentility. They are an indication
that their possessor is a man of leisure.
When they are excessively long, ap-
preaching the dignity of talons as they
sometimes do, they indicate that the
gentleman-or lady-attached to them
has passed the mere gentility line, and
has become full-fedged aristocrat. In
AMMAN, where the finger-nail habit has
persisted for hundreds and perhaps
thousands of years, these signs manual
of extreme gentility sometimes attain
by careful cultivation the length of six
or eight inches, and instances are on
record where length of sixteen and
even eighteen inches has been attained.
This custom prevails generally
throughout what is known as Indo-
China, which includes Siam, Burmah.
Cambodla, Laos, and the Shan states.
etc. 1t is also common throughout the
Chinese Empire, more especially in the
southern provinces.
1t is said that some of the Annamese
noblemen never have their nails cut
from the time of birth. In such cases.
of course, the poor creatures are prac.
tically helpless, and have to rely on ser.
wants entirely for assistance in the dis
charge of the most common offices. be-
ing unable to either clothe or feed
themselves.-New York Sun.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28
DETACHED BY THE TOE.
Automatic Device by Which Skates
Are Easily Removed.

Edwin r. Knapp, of Red Bank, N. j.,
has patented very handy and simple
arrangement for adjusting the skates.
on the feet and removing them auto
matically. AS will be seen by glance
at the accompanying picture, the foot
plate is pivoted to the toe of the skate,
with locking spring catch at the heel.
The skate is also provided with the US
ual clamps, which are in this case oper-
ated by the movement of the foot plate
in conjunction with the runner, the op-
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

A New York bank clerk rises to pro-
test that ''if Diogenes were living to-
day, he could find the man he was
looking for right in any bank in the
country, yes, and not only one, but
any number Of the specimen for which
he searched In vain"-and he is proba-
bly, correct. AN honor to the honest
men In our financial institutions on
whom dishonest men occasionally bring
undeserved dlshonor!
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

American soldier than the following
words of an English observer in China :?
He says that they "have distinguish
ed themselves not only in the face Of
the enemy, but equally so against the
temptations that exist in city like
Pekin under existing conditions"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

American firms are going to build
five great battleships for Russia. We
might exult more over this matter If
1t were not for the fact that Germany
was tickled when Krupp got his big
contracts Tor furnishing arms to China.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

Mark Twain forgot, few evenings
ago, that he was invited out to dinner.
Most authors, unhappily, have strong
reasons for vividly remembering such
engagements.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

The venerable Bishop Wheeler has
sized up the Empress Dowager correct
ly, no doubt, when he says that she ''is
a woman Of marvellous ability, without
principle, and perfect Jezebel."
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

You may tale about your cooking
schools and your chatting dishes all you
like. But when you have walked If
teen miles with dog and gun in the
wake of qualls and com, at sundown
to big farm house where "the missus"
fries a piece Of ham the size of shin
gle. with fresh eggs lust brown enough
and provides light biscuits, made from
jug yeast, and apple butter and COW
butter and boiled potatoes and that
ham gravy, and coffee strong enough
to bounce an iron wedge, and dill
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

The Prince of Wales wears his trous-
ers without crease. This will be bad
news for the tailors and good news for
people who have for years been haunt
ed by fears of baggy trousers. How
ever, as one tailor says, 1--WE can have
creases in our trousers without the con-
sent of any other nation" If we want
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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

If that poet who compliments his
straw-haired wife by saying that all
angels are blondes should ever go home
with a black or brown hair on his
shoulder he might sbimble on to the
discovery that all blondes are not an
gels.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

Since the death of Jay Gould the
total of the family fortune has grown
from $65,000,000 to $1O0,000,O0O. In
view of these figures, the four-milliOn-
dollar investment of poor, little Anna
does not seem such a frightful extrava-
gance.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

The Connecticut woman who has
sued a physician because he changed
her complexion from that of a blonde
to a brunette really ought to have a
little patience. The brunette will be
In fashion again before long, and then
she. Will be glad of the change. But
woman always was an impulsive crea-
ture.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

A little man living in town occasion
ally marries a woman who is small.
but little man in the country always
marries tall woman.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

Many fellow who was excited dur
ing the election now finds thrill in
looking after the ravages Of the Goblin
moth.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

The only people who have all they
want don't want much.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

Men who never swear would prob
ably be unwilling to have all their
thoughts written out.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

The bank clerk who begins by living
beyond his means generally ends by
living behind the bars.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

If you avoid making predictions. you
will often AVOID making yourself ridic-
ulous.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

There is such Thing as over caution
that excites suspicion.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-12-28

a letter from relative is more apt
to contain advice than money.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-02
WHAT IS GOING ON TODAY.

Seventeenth annual meeting of the Kings County
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Bay Ridge
Methodist Church, Brooklyn. 10 a.
Aqueduct Commissioners meeting.
Pilot Commissioners Chesebrough Building
morning.
Hearing in the Gaynor case before Commissioner
Shields, noon.
Banner raising of millinery men. Broadway, be-
tween Houston and Bleecker SITS, noon.
Commercial Travellers Sound Money League,
noon
Racing Morris Park, p. m.
Produce and Maritime Exchanges Sound Money
Club p.
Meeting of the New-Yo- k Gearing House Asso-
cation
Funeral Of Thomas O. shearman. Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn. p
City Council and Board of Aldermen afternoon
General session of the Charter Revision Com
mission
Opening of the New-York University School of
Commerce. Washington Square Building p. m.
Social Reform Club meeting, No. Is University
Place D. m.
Meeting OF the New-York chronological Society
Museum of Natural History, p. m.
Riverside and Morningside Heights associations
evening.
Meeting of the Republican Campaign Committee
Brooklyn.
Historical Society. No 10 Second-ave evening
Opening of the East Side Republican Clubs
house. Nos 22S and 225 East Thirty -irst-st. even
ing.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-02
HOME NEWS.
Prominent ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS.

PROMINENT ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS.
ALBEMARLE.-CaptainF F. A. Cook, [. S N.
and DR.. F. c Cook, L. s. y. BUCKINGHAM
Duo de Warren Surrey. of Paris and Countess
Benoet day, Chateau dAzy. France CAM
BRIDGE-Colonel Henry May of Washington. and
the Rev. E. H. Porter of Newport. FIFTH
AVENUE-State Senator Edgar T. Bracket. OF
Saratoga. GRAND-Thomas II. Rees. L. S. A.
GRAND UNION-William Gregory, Governor of
Rhode Island HOFFMAN-Ex-S Senator David B.
Hill of Albany. and ex-Judge Andrew Hamilton.
of Albany. HOLLAND-Justice D. Cady Herrck,
OF the New-Ycrk State Supreme Court: ex-GOv-
Frank S. Black. of Troy; Thomas Nelson
Page. of Washington; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.
Of Massachusetts; Victor ]. Lorng, of Boston, and
Ex-Governor Lucius F. Robinson of Connecticut.
IMPERIAL-Captain NJ. Crawford, of England.
MANHATTAN-A. J. Pitkin, of Schenectady.
MURRAY HILI-Dr. W. ]. Stewart L. S A. and
Halsted Dovey, L. s. A. PARK AVENUE-Dr. W.
3. Clements, of Ladue. y. w. T. PLAZA-Assem-
blyman NJ. J. Rodenbeck. of Rochester. SAVOY
c. H. Farrar of York. England. STURTEVANT-
Captain T o. Murphy, of Santiago de Cuba.
VICTORIA-Judge A. B. Hawkins. OF Raleigh;
Colonel w. H. Hawes, of Towanda. Penn, and
Colonel F. A Bostwicl1 of ST. Paul. WALDORF
Victor E. Mitchell. of Montreal; sewall K. Oliver.
OF Worcester: r. H. Wilbur of South Bethlehem.
Penn and Lionel {. Guest of London.