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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-03-02
AN ANTARCTIC OASIS.
A Queer Discovery Made During the
Recent Expedition.


Recent Antarctic discoveries, by the
Belgian expedition, are described in the
Century by Frederick A. Cook, Of
Brooklyn, whose article is fully illus
trated. "An oasis in a snowy wilder
ness" Is the phrase he employs In char
acterizing a certain bit of the Antarctic
land. 80
Being still unwilling to advance into
the unknown region before us while en-
shrouded in mist, we drew near d prom
inent mountain peak to make a debark-
ment. This peak was a perpendicular
cliff, free Of snow to the sea shore. 1t
was one Of number extending far into
the southeast, as we learned on the fol
lowing day. We made a debarkment at
its base. Here was life in profusion, as
indeed there was on every rock where
life could gain footing. The noise from
the birds, which re-echoed from cliff to
cliff, was deafening. The lower rocks
were lined with snoring and grunting
sea leopards. Columns Of vapor rose
above the water, followed by hiss like
that Of steam engine, and a second
later the blue back of whale, with its
long fin and ponderous tail, lashed the
water into foamy whirlpool. The
great wall of land ice rose to each side
of the black cliff, which gave us a shelf
as landing place. From this wall came
frequent sounds like the explosion Of
cannon, which were followed by
splash and a commotion in the water.
With such reports parts of the wall
would constantly break away and fall
into a million pieces, strewing the wa
ter with small fragments of ice, but not
with icebergs. Above us rose a cliff to
an altitude of about 1000 feet; out from
this were projecting mantel-llke rocks,
which served as resting places for cor
morants and sea gulls.
Here the young ones, dressed In gray
down, coaXed their mothers for food.
We expected to see the little things drop
from the narrow resting places, to be
destroyed on our heads or on the rocks
below, but such an accident rarely hap
pened. Our greatest surprise here was
the discovery of large quantities of
moss and llchens, which gave tile spot
an unexpected appearance of vegetable
life and color. After seeing nothing but
ice and black rocks for so many days.
this sight Of green and brown and red
amid an endless expanse of Icy desert
was great relief. 1t was an oasis in n
snowy wilderness.
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child's play beside it. In the Santiago
campaign there were 1900 American
soldiers engaged. During the three
days fighting the American loss in
killed was only 22S, or less than 2 per
cent. of the total, while the total OF
killed, wounded and missing is not more
than 10 per cent. in all. In all the re-
cent English wars the experience has
been that 10 per cent. will cover the
killed and wounded in action, as well
as those who are taken to the hospital
on account of sickness. Even at Gettys-
burg, in which tremendous battle about
100000 troops We're engaged, the total
percentage Of loss on both sides, includ-
Ing killed, wounded and missing, was
not greater than that at Bucaramanga,
while the number of killed on the Fed.
eral side was less than per cent. of
the forces commanded by Gen. Meade.
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received a gift of 500, 900 to endow a lee

received gift Of $4,000 to endow lee
tureship in memory Of her husband, a
graduate Of the class of 1885. Another
gift of $4,000 was received by the uni
versity from the family of John Simp-
kins for the Lawrence Scientific School,
and still another $4,000 from Mrs. Fred
erick L. Philips, of Lawrence, r. l. The
money Is to establish fund, the income
of which is to be expended annually in
the purchase of books for the college
library in the department of English
literature. The gift is in memory of the
donors brother.
Other Benefactions.
new dormitory to be erected at
Wellesley College, at a cost of $50, 900,
Is the gift Of Mrs. Martha S. Pomeroy,
of Washington. Mrs. Irene B. Lewis.
of Hamilton, N. Y, has recently made
gift Of $4,000 to Colgate University, to
found three scholarships for the pur-
pose of aiding young men studying for
the Baptist ministry in that Institution.
Miss Marie Hopper, of Philadelphia,
has given $4,000 to Bryn Mawr College
for a scholarship foundation fund.
Mrs. Joseph Moffatt, of Los Angeles,
CAL, has given property to the value of
$4,000 to the endowment fund of the
National Florence Crittenton Mission
a, charity which was founded sixteen
yearsago by Charles Crittenton, of New
York. In memory OF his daughter.
For the maintenance of a home for
convalescents and lnvalids at Santa
Barbara, $4,000 has been left by Miss
Anna S. G. Blake, her will being pro-
bated in April. She also left to the Cot
tage Hospital, $4,000; to the Orthope-
die Hospital, Philadelphia, $40, 1000, and
to d Boston hospital like sum.
A charity has been founded during
the past few months by Mrs. Alfred
Corning Clark, in memory Of her hus-
band. 1t is the Alfred Corning Clark
NeighborhOod House, which stands in
the heart Of the crowded lower East
Side, New York. Mems, women's,
boys and girls clubs. kindergartens.
libraries, conservatorles and roof gar
dens are included in the work of the in
stitution-a work which is thoroughly
appreciated by the people in whose be-
half 1t Is being done. 1t has been en-
dowed at cost of about 100000.
During last summer a new floating
hospital for st. Johns Guild was built
by Mrs. Augustus d. Juilliard, Of New
Yark, at cost of $S3, 900: 1t was named
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-03-02
MINES AND MINING.
LSWtsssnesS and Terror will Reign -
Cape Mono This summer.

Cape Nome This summer.
There will be lawlessness and reign
of terror in the new gold fields at Cape
Nome, Alaska, next summer, in the
opinion of John G. Brady. governor OF
the territory, and George N. Wright,
postmaster at Cape Nome, unless con-
gress takes steps to establish civil gov
ernment on firm foundation and
makes laws defining the proprietorship
OF claims. Governor Brady and Mr..
Wright are in the East endeavoring to
obtain the appointment of United States
judges at Sitka, Circle City and Cape
Nome. An extraordinary rush of gold
seekers to the last named place is ex-
pected next May when communication
with the outside world is reopened.
MIR. Wright believes that before the end
OF the summer, there will be $4,000
persons in Cape Nome.
1--WE want the general land laws ex-
tended to Alaska, so that we have
homestead rights" said Mr.. Wright
last night, otherwise we cannot help
having great deal of trouble. We
are without the legal form of govern
ment. We have organized one of our
own, electing mayor, a council,
chief of police and other officers, but
1t has no standing in law. There were
1000 men there last year, and they
agreed among themselves to observe
each others rights, but it will be dif-
ferent when we have 10000.
I'm law, nobody has any right to the
beach, between the high and low water
marks, where there are rich deposits of
gold. 1t ought to be laid off in small
plots for the sale of the mineral rights.
Though gold was discovered in Cape
Nome year ago last September, we
did not get the news in Seattle until
last May. We suspected at first that
it was scheme of the steamship COM
panies to get passengers, as the Yukon
business was getting slack. l tele-
graphed to Washington to be appointed
postmaster and was appointed over
night by wire. got to Nome July 4,
when there was not a sluice box in the
district.
Lumber came in later, and about
$3, 500, 900 of gold was taken out last
summer. One claim in Anvil creek
paid $l75,000 in five weeks. / know
because l handled the money. Three
claims in Snow gulch paid $500, 900.
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four women in the United States for
higher education amounted to $3,446,-
400; of this sum Cora j. Flood gave the
largest amount, or $2,000,00O, and Helen
Gould, beside her donation to the Gov
ernment, gave $4,000 for educational
purposes.
The record Of gifts to charity and for
educational purposes by women in this
country for the year now ending is a
notable one and is not entirely covered
In the following list.
Half million dollars, given by Mrs.
Lydia Bradley, of Peoria, Ill.,, comes
next to Mrs. Stanford's gift. 1t was
presented last summer to the Bradley
polytechnic Institute, and constituted
her second donation, the first being a
gift of the land on which the institute
was built and the money to build it.
That Involved sum approximating
$250,O00. In addition, Mrs. Bradley has
given to Peoria 1877 acres of land for a
park, she has built church, a home
for aged women and many other
smaller Institutions.
Miss Floods presenta ton of her
fathers country place, at Menlo Park,
to the University of California, made in
1897, has been supplemented, recently
by gift Of money. The house and its
contents are valued at $1,0OO,OOO, and a
tract Of nearly 5000 acres is included In
the transfer.
Another California woman has been
munificent In her gifts; this Is Mrs. E.
B. Crocker, who has conveyed to the
Benevolent and Protective order of
Elks her home in Sacramento as a me-
morial Of her husband. 1t Is valued at
100000. Mrs. Phoebe Hearst and Mrs.
Leland Stanford are constantly adding
TO their gifts to the universities they
have built up in California, and their
benefactions go up into the millions
Mrs. Stanford's latest contribution
made during the summer was one Of
$10,000,OO0
Mrs Emmons Blaine, of Chicago, in
May, announced that she would found
a college Of pedagogy, the institution to
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-03-02

be started with fund Of several hun
dred thousand dollars. She has had
this idea in mind for some years, It be-
ing her desire to accomplish a practical
good for poor girls by giving them an
opportunity to become teachers. She
bestows a permanent benefit upon
them. The new college of pedagogy,
built and endowed by Mrs. Blaine, will
represent an outlay Of 100000.
At the commencement at Vassar Col
lege in June It was announced that
Miss Katharine Tuttle had given $1O,.
600 scholarship In memory of her sis
ter, and Mrs. Caroline Swift Atwater,
OF Poughkeepsie, to build a new infirm-
ary, had donated $4,000.
, From Mrs. William Beldon Noble, Of
Washington. Harvard University has
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-03-02
CLEANLINESS WITHOUT SOAP
That the Beers Don't Use 1t Doesn't
Prove They're Dirty.

|
Prove They're Dirty.
Surely too much Importance Is at.
tached to the scarcity of soap in the
Beers farmhouses, says the London
Truth. People may be very clean and
use very little soap. The Russians and
Japanese cleanse themselves with vapor
baths, rarely using soap when they do
so. A healthy skin cleanses itself.
Rough inside clothing, which, l pre-.
sumo, the Beers wear, Is great skin
cleanser. l have known of doctors cur
Ing skin diseases by insisting on lin
gerie de luxe being cast aside and
coarse undergarments worn instead.
The late emperor Of the French hard
ly ever soaped his hands until he went
to England. l have come across paper
found in his desk at the Tulleries. II
contained the instructions of the King
of Holland to the governor of his two
elder boys. Among the things forbid
den was for the young princes hands to
be washed with soap. They were to
use bran and a slice Of lemon. The
lemon was to remove ink stains, and in
summer to keep off gnats and mosqul-
toes. Napoleon, whose hands were good
to model and beautifully white, also
used bran and no soap, unless to shave.
[ never use soap Of any kind without
sense Of skin discomfort which not
even deluge of quite pure water will
wholly remove
In England, on account of coal smoke
and smut, soap is more needed than in
countries with clear air. The Beers
enjoy, perhaps, the purest atmosphere
in the world, except when there are
dust storms. know French ladies who
have discarded soap for vaseline. They
smear themselves with the latter and
then rub 1t off well with soft cotton
towel. A doctor tells me that nothing
Is more cleansing, but that he prefers.
as more tonic, plain cold water. fol-
lowed by the same sort of rubbing.
DR.. Leyds really should not take to
heart what Sir Henry Stanley said
about the Beers being badly off for
soap.
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York charities by the Will Of Mrs. Caro-

York charities by the will Of Mrs. Caro-
line E. Hollister.
Mrs. Fels R. Brunnot, of Allegheny
City, Pa, bequeathed by will, probated
in November, $123, 600 to missions. The
late Mrs. Harriet rockingham VOL
colt, stepnother of Gov. Roger Wolcott,
distributed by her will, probated in
April last, $32, 800 to various charities.
st. Barnabas Hospital, Newark, ben
etits to the value of $1,000 and a share
in the residuary estate of Mrs. Eliza
Wells, who also left 81 900 to the Socie-
ty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chill
dren. s~
By the death Of Mrs. Elizabeth
Thompson, in July, the poor seam
stresses of Rhinebeck- on Hudson find
themselves heirs to an estate of $500, 900
which is to be equally divided among
them.
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$MONEY WOMEN GAVE.
THE YEAR 1899 HAS AN UN.
EQUALED RECORD.
American Women Have Given the
Enormous Sum of $16,OOO,OOO to
Purposes of Public Good Many
Worthy Charities Assisted.

The gifts Of women during 1889 for
purposes of public good aggregate a
sum Of $16,000,000. OF this amount the
largest single sum is Mrs. Stanfords S
$1O,O0O,O0O, and Mrs. Bradley's $5OO,OOO
is the next largest. The total gifts and
beQuests for the five years-1S93
through 1S97-in this country was more
than $165,000,0 ,0O0-that is gifts from
private fortunes for public uses. Of
this $45,O0O,OOO was given during 1897.
In 1898, in New York City alone $685.
100000 was given away in charity. Dur
ing the same year, the gifts Of thirty
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-03-02
A BLOODY BATTLE.
Conflict at Bucaramanga Most Des.
perate in Recent Years.

Conflict at Bucaramanga Most Des.
perate in Recent Years.
1t has been the custom to laugh at the
frequent revolutions in Central America
as comic opera controversies, with lit
tie danger Of loss or serious casualties
on either side. If the reports of the re-
cent battle between rival factions in
Colombia are to be depended upon, how
ever, the popular opinion must be re-
yised, and the battle fought at Bucara-
manga will go down into history as one
of the bloodiest and most desperate
battles of recent years. Out of 10000
men engaged on both sides 1000, or 10
per cent. of the total, were killed out
right, while 5000 or 80 per cent, were
either killed or wounded. The battles
Of the Spanish-American war were
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-03-02

On the Yukon the gold is we'll below
the surface, but at Nome it lies near
the top of the ground. Many claims
have been staked out, but there is q
vast region still to be explored. The
formation is very peculiar. Back Of
the beach, which is white sand, and
rising 10 feet above it, is fiat strip
called tundras, which extends from
two to four miles back to the noun
tains. This has layer of moss or peat
on top, then comes layer of blue clay
from 6 to 10 inches thick, and then the
white sand to bedrock 20 feet below.
The gold in the white sand runs from
80 cents to ST. 80 pan, and the pay
streak of ruby sand on the bedrock runs
Us to the pan, besides coarse gold.
"One OF the steamers took $50 tons
OF sand shoveled at random from the
beach to San Francisco last year. 1t
was put into smelter and yielded
80, 900 in gold. The beach has been
prospected for 15 miles. Nobody
knows where the gold came from.
Some think it was from hills brought
down Dy glaciers, and some think 1t
was thrown up by volcano.
Governor Brady wants Alaska to
come in as state when the population
has been increased by the rush next
summer. He is the one man that all
the people there have absolute conf
dence in. II we are admitted to the
Union we can take care OF ourselves.
Miners began coming down from the
Yukon last fall, and more will come.
If we do not get authority to protect
ourselves we shall have trouble"
In Delaware last week the National
Cape Nome Mining g. Transportation
Company was organized with capital
Of $5, 1000, 900. to establish steamship
line and work with machinery claims
covering 920 acres of beach and tund-
ras. Francis B. Thurber, F. L. Lor-
ing and George Crawford are the in
corporators.
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A tumble Request.

"Ma. may go out to playT
"No; you must sit still where you
are"
Pause.
MA. may l go down into the kitch-
en-"
mo. l want you to sit perfectly
quiet"
Pause.
ma, mayn't l sit on the floor and
play marblesY
II have told you twice that I want
you to sit just where you are and be
quiet and 1 mean exactly what say"
Pause.
"Ma, may growT
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-03-02
Transferring Disease.

Zootheraphy consists in transferring
a disease from man to some animal, and
Is the converse of the medical theory
that animals convey disease to man.
This system Of curing Ills was devised
by Ferapi, a Florentlne. He mentions
the case Of man suffering from rheu-
matism who made his dog lie across his
bed. The man recovered and the dog
diad
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-03-02
Like Mariners Good s.ilor..

Lake sallormen are reputed to be
the best sailors. 1t is said that a sailor
may cross the Atlantic without danger
Of running into an island, and he may
hardly see more than two or three
ships during the entire voyage, but o.
the lakes 1t Is just the other way.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-03-02
The Point ofN ew.

He-Hasn't Miss Hauton a Roman
nose?
She-I think retrousse Is a better
term for it-she turns 1t up on the
nightest vocation.-New York Even
Ing World.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-03-02

The entire seasons output OF grain
bags from the Walla Walla peniten-
tiary has already been applied for, and
many applications have been refused
because of lack of capacity to supply
them. The price has not yet been
fixed. 1t is estimated that 10000. 900
sacks will be needed for the seasons
grain, only one-eighth Of which can be
manufactured at the state prison.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-03-02
Test of Newspaper Advertising. i.

Test OF Newspaper Advertising.
Between the acts recently
at Wallack's New York
theater, ushers distributed
among the audience slips
with brief printed state
ment politely asking the
recipient to indicate by a
check mark in the list of
various advertising forms
employed which one had
attracted him to the per-
formance-newspapers, bill
boards, window Autographs
or something else. Eleven
hundred slips were handed
to the ushers, and OF that
number 99l had been at
tracted by the newspapers
solely.
The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-26

bear. and a once both of them fell 20 It,
and Jack went out and closed the stable
door but as ne did his finger stuck IN
the ring and he pulled and struggled to
get ii away, but could not get It.
That was a fix for poor Jack. "and by
this and by that" says he, the Giant Will
be back and find me stuck here" 50 he
hoops out his knife and cuts OF his finger
and left 1t there.
Ana when the Giant came home that
night, says he TO jack, ''Wen, Jack, what
sort OF day had you had this day. and
how did you get along?"
Il had a fine day." says Jack, land got
along very fine indeed
Jack" says he, show me your two
hands" and when Jack held out his two
hands there the Giant saw one Of his
fingers gone. lie got black in the race
with rage when ne saw this, and ne said,
Jack. did I not warn you on the peril OF
your life not to go in that stablef
Poor Jack pleaded all he could, and said
he did not mean to. but the curiosity got
the best Of him. and he thought he "ould
open the door and peep in II.
Says the Giant. mo man before ever
opened that stable door and lived to tell
il. and you. 100, would be a dead man
this minute only for one thing. Your
fathers father did my father great SER
vice once. I am the man who never for
gets a good thing. and for that service
The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-26

two daughters and they have the golden
tokens of the marriage"
Jack drew out from his pocket the two
golden bai4s and han1ed them TO the Eipe
and said 1T is I VINO have the tokens =
and handed them 70 the King.
The Yellow Rose had gone off to RI.
garden in the middle OF all this JACK
made the King sit down and told him en-
his story, and how he came by the golda0
balls. He told him how he was Hooke9v-
Crookedy, and that it reflected a grea,
deal Of honor that she the King though
so worthless would refuse to give nm
Hcokedy-Crookedy for the one She
thought % wealthy prince, and that sha
walked away in a hurry. The King. Won
may be sure, was highly delighted to
grant his request. A couple of drops Of
Ioca brought the Kings two sons to thelp
senses again, and at Jacks request thav
were ordered 10 go and live elsewhere
Jack went off, left his mare in the wood
and came in the garden as Hookedy-
Crookedy. He told the Yellow Rose he
had been gathering hilberries.
60" says she, Il have sorae thing grand
for you. Let me comb your hair with this
comb"
Hookedy- CrooSedy put his head in her
lap and she combed out bushel of gold
and silver, and when he stood up again
Sne saw 1fOOheQy-CTOOk6Qy no more, out
instead the beautiful prince that had been
trying to win her in her fathers drawing
room for the last three days, and then
and there to her Jack told his whole
story. and it's Yellow Rose is the delight
ed girl.
With little delay they were married
The wedding lasted year and day, and
there were at it 500 fiddlers, 800 iuters,
and 1000 ffers, and the last day was bet
ter than the first.
Shortly after the marriage Jack and his
bride were out walking one day A
beautiful young woman crossed the path.
Jack addressed her, but she gave him a
very curt reply.
"Your manners are not so handsome az
your looks" said Jack to her.
"And bad as they are they are better
than your memory, Hookedy-Crookedy,"
says she.
what do you mean2" says Jack.
She led Jack aside and she told him. 81
am the mare who was so good to YOU I
was condemned to that ship for a num-
Der of years, and now my enchantment IL
over. had brother who was enchant-
ed TO a bear, and whose enchantment is
over now also had hopes" she said.
that some day you would be my hus-
quickly forgot all about me. No matter
now" she said, IT couldn't wish you a
better and handsomer wife than you have
got. Go home to your castle and be hap
by and live and live prosperous. I will
never see you. and you will never see me
again for a while"