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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

moderate means, then we make the
'drawing-room' as closely resemble one
In some wealthy home we know of as
possible, only with limited means we
must purchase cheaper articles. Then,
we have as good an example of the
showroom Of cheap furniture store as
1T Is possible to obtain. If we are poor,
then we set around stiffiy four or five
black haircloth chairs; we put marble
top table with plush-album on it in the
center; haircloth sofa which no can
possibly stick on; Franklin stove that
is never lighted; we hang a wreath of
wax flowers in a glass case on the
walls; a carpet riotous with the most
gorgeous roses Is put on the floor, and
then, after we have carefully pulled
down every shade in the room, so as to
exclude Gods pure sunshine and get a
nice, musty and cemeterial smell in the
room, we have what we call, in Ameri-
ca, parlor. And in either case we
have best room,' so best that we
never use it, and people shown into it
are always glad to get out of it. But
we have 'drawing-room,' or 'parlor.'
and, in the minds of some, without such
a room no house Is complete"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18
show the favorite age to be two to three
years older, while in the south 1t would

show the favorite age to be two to three
years older, while in the south 1t would
probably be year or so younger
The census statistics of England
show an excess of women between 20
and "a years of age, which indicates the
favorite age of ladies in that country.
The degree Of error which is introduced
into census figures by this systematic
hbbing of young ladies about their ages
is readily and Enthusiastically detected.
In the case of the young men the
number of those who are shown by the
statistics of the United States to be 21
is far in excess Of what it could be, ac-
cording to the number of those who are
under and above that age. This is sim
ply the result of ambitious youth to
reach the voting age. In Cuba, where
expectation of voting has not been
nourished by the boy all his life and in
duced a preference of 81 as a desirable
age, the last census showed no excess of
men of that age.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

Women earn their daily bread in al
most every branch of human industry.
Women make or help to make collins,
bricks, tiles, sewer pipes, tools, boxes,
barrels, furniture. They are in all the
professions; they are stockholders and
partners in various kinds of business,
and as to the more conventional 'occu-
patiOns Of women they are galore. In
the more unusual ways we have had a
woman anthropologist, woman for
ester, women who mine and women
who deal in stocks. One woman spent
fifty years making a bead house and
lately was found dead with her untin-
1shed work before her.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

tions in latitude and longitude to this
tentative position are computed. In
1880 the center was assumed to be at
the intersection of the parallel of 80
degrees, with the meridian of SO de-
grees west of Greenwich. This would
have made the center of population Of
the United States just two miles due
north Of Seymour in Jackson County,
Ind. From this assumed base the veri-
fications were made and the true center
was located.
The movement Of the center has been
steadily westward. On the accompany
ing map its unwavering march toward
the west, with occasional dips to the
south and the north, is shown. In 1870
1t was east of Baltimore twenty miles.
In ten years 1t had moved forty miles
westward. The annexation of Louis
lana brought 1t south and west, and in
1920 1t was sixteen miles north of
Woodstock, Va. In 1910 the pioneers
of the West brought it north, and in
1850 it had moved south again. Texas
had come into the Union. The growth
Of the great West had switched it back
to the north in 1860, and it was near
Chillicothe, Ohio. War reduced the
population of the South In the decade
between 1860 and 1870, and the center
moved north near to Cincinnati. In
another decide 1t had cleared Cincin-
natl in It's westward progress, and in
1870 1t had settled in central southern
Indiana. The past ten years has car
ried the center westward about twen-
ty miles and northward about seven
miles.
Upon information given out by Gov
ernment Census Director Merriam, a
party at Columbus by mathematical
calculations located the center Of pop
ulation in a wheat field on the farm of
Frank Wright, nine miles north Of the
city and one and half miles north of
Taylorsvllle, in the southwest corner
of the northeast quarter, section 10,
town 10, range east. An inscribed
board marks the spot.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18
King Oscar Was His Host.

A story illustrating the simpe bon
homie of the King of Sweden and Nor
way is told by NJ. CASTOR BONNER, the
botanist. M. BONNER was botanizing
near Stockholm, when he met
stranger similarly occupied. The two
botanists fraternized, and NJ. BONNER
suggested that they should lunch TO-
gether at an inn.
mo; come home and lunch with me
instead" said the stranger; and he led
the way to the palace and opened the
gate.
NJ. BONNER was naturally astonished.
but his new acquaintance, was most
apologetic.
"Tm sorry" he said "but happen
to be the king of this country, and this
is the only place I've got to entertain
anybody in" So they went in and
lunched, and talked botany together
all the afternoon.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18
GOOD cHEWING-GuM TOWNS.
Salesman Says They Are Most in the
West and Northwest.

]. ]. Amend, travelling representa-
tive Of one of the largest chewing gum
manufacturing companies in the United
States, expressed surprise, in speaking
to New Orleans Times Democrat re-
porter, that the establishment of a
chewing-gum factory at that point is
talked of.
1T is true that much of the gum we
use comes by way of New Orleans, in
it's raw state, from the tropics" he said,
but l can see no other reason for put
ting up factory here. | don't believe
sugar is any cheaper here than it is in
the North, and glucose is no cheaper,
If as cheap Then this is very poor
market, locally, for chewing gum"
'Why Is that?"
81 don't know the reason, but 1t Is a
fact, nevertheless. Why, know lots of
towns in other parts of the country that
use ten times as much chewing gum
yes, fifty times as much-as New Or
leans, and they are not nearly as big as
this city, either"
where's the best market for chew
ing gum in the United StatesT
"All west and north of st. Louis. Lots
Of gum is sold throughout Kansas, Ne
braska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota.
Kansas City is great town for it"
''How about Chicago"
"Oh, Chicago is one of the greatest
chewing gum cities in the country. Chi
cago has gone ahead of New York In
this respect. New York used to be a
great town for 1t, and one couldn't 90
anywhere In the city without seeing
girls working their jaws as IL their lives
depended on 1t. But the caricaturists
and the paragraphists made such fun of
the habit that good many of the girls
stopped chewing, and the sales fell of
very heavily. Boston was pretty
good gum town at one time, but never
80 good as our Western cities.
"As a rule, the newer the city the
better the chewing-gum trade In II. In
an old city, like New Orleans, the peo.
pie don't seem to take to the habit al
all. The French element here hurts us
for the French are not gum chewers
The Germans don't chew gum, either
In some OF the places where there ars
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18
wish to represent themselves as older

wish to represent themselves as older
than they are, while those who have
passed their teens cling to the age of
youth to the extent of even deceiving
the census enumerators. Young ladies
who are sensitive on the subject of
their ages fear that the enumerator,
who generally lives in their neighbor-
hood and frequently knows them, will
"blab' their ages to all the marriage
able young men and perhaps interfere
with some attachment that bids fair to
ripen into mellow love. The fact is, the
enumerator, as a rule, is perfectly cal
lous to the significance Of the census
figures and forgets them as soon as he
records them. In Cuba 10 is equivalent
to 25 years in the age of young lady
living in the northern portion of the
United States.
The last census showed that in the
United States there was an excess of
girls between Is and 10 years, but this
age, as the favorite of young ladies', is
the general average of north and
south. If the statistics could be COM
piled separately it is thought by census
experts that the Northern States would
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

The real yellow peril" will be pres
ent when the Chinese are awakened to
the full knowledge of the resources of
their empire and have their attention
strongly directed to manufacturing.
What the civilized world has most to
fear is the arousing of China from her
present lethargic condition to realiza-
tlon of the possibilities within her
reach. The Chinese are industrious and
thrifty. They are willing to work and
to work for small wages. They can
easily be taught to do almost anything.
They quickly become expert operatives
in cotton factories and It would not be
difficult to teach them to be skillful
workmen in all kinds OF manufacture
Ing.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18
The American ParIor.

I'VE have prevalent folly of setting
aside a room in our houses which we
very rarely USE" writes Edward Box.
protesting, in the Ladies' Home Jour
nal, against the bad taste exercised in
furnishing our homes. IF means are
at our command we crowd such room
full of puny gilt chairs, upon which no
one dares to sit; on the walls we hang
impossible paintings, with equally i'm
possible, massive gold frames; an 'ele-
CANT sofa upholstered in silk or satin,
with a gilded frame, is introduced; a
gold clock which never runs is put on
mantel Of solid onyx; a 'Chippendale'
cabinet Is added-which always har-
monizes so superbly with Louis XIV.
sofa or chair-and we have what we
call 'drawingroom.' If we are Of
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18
NEW CENTER OF POPULATION.
Census Officials Place inscribed Board
on a Farm Near Colum bus, Ind.


on a Farm Near Colum bus, Ind.
Ten years ago the census bureau To-
Gated the center of population of the
United States eighteen miles east of
Columbus, Ind, just over the line III
Decatur County, near Westport, 80 de-
grees IL minutes and 56 seconds west
latitude and 50 degrees 80 minutes and
53 seconds north longitude. Since 1890
the center of population has shifted a
little to the north ami a little to the
west. 1t is still in the State of Indiana,
not far from Columbus, in the southern
central part of the State.
The center of population is the center
OF gravity of the population of the
country, each individual being assum-
ed to have the same weight. The meth
Oh OF determining that center is as fol-
lows: The population of the country Is
first distributed by square Degrees"
as the area included between consecu
tive parallels and meridians is desig-
mated. A point is then assumed tenta-
lively as the center, and the correc-
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18
Poison in Growing Pineapples.

The juice of the green and growing
pineapple is accredited in Java, the
Philippines and throughout the far
East generally with being blood poi
son of most deadly nature. 1t is said
to be the substance with which the
Malays poison their kreeses and dag
gers, and also the "fingernalr' poison
formerly in use among the aborigine
Japanese women almost universally.
These women cultivated nail on each
hand to long, sharp point. and the
least scratch from one of these was Ger.
tain death.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

To tread on the British lions tail and
make him roar for joy is an exploit
worthy Of the cleverest Frenchman. At
recent dinner of London literary
club where MAX O'Rell" presided, G.
A. Henty, an old African war CORE
spondent, made vigorous speech, and
at its close some one demanded toast
for South Africa. Monsieur Blouet,
who favors the Beers, was In delicate
position, but his wit and courage never
faltered. He proposed, God save
South Afrlca!" and the toast was drunk
and applauded tremendously. or course
Monsieur Blouet cherished mental
reservation"-that South Africa should
be saved sfrom England instead Of to
England; but doubtless he is grateful
ly loyal at least to the English Ian
guage, which offered him the means to
conceal his thought.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

A collection of political curiosities
would properly include President
Pierce's Cabinet, the only one In the
history Of the country which remained
unchanged during the four years of an
administration. 1t is remarkable that
the cabinet Of Lord Salisbury, which
consists of nineteen members, has not
suffered a single change in the five
years since the summer of 1895, when
the present government took office.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18
LIE TO THE CENSUS TAkER.
Women and Poys Misrepreseut Their
Ages from Different Motives.

women ann EOyS NhtbTcpTeocuI
Ages from Different Motives.
Feminine vanity, as 1t is related to
the desire to be esteemed young, and
boyish ambition to attain the manly
and voting age of 21 years. are plainly
shown in census figures. This is no new
revelation In the taking of the twelfth
census, but it is an old tendency which
has been shown by the figures of the
past censuses of the United States, as
well as of other countries. 1t has again
been exemplified in the figures relating
to the census of Cuba. A study of the
statistics of Cuba has shown an excess
sive number of females between the
ages of 10 and 10 years, inclusive, when
compared with the number of males of
that age. 1t looked, in fact, as II there
were good many thousand girls of
that age In Cuba who would never find
mates in life and who would end their
days In single blessedness simply be-
cause there were so many of them COM
pared TO the youths who were growing
up with them. That Is what the figures
would appear to indicate to the lay
man, but to the census expert they
mean something else. They simply
mean that girls below the age Of 10
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

Samuel Stoltz, of st. Louis, left his
home in Russia twelve years ago to
come to America. A wife and six chill
dren remained in the old country, Stoltz
having only enough money to pay his
own passage. He said he would send
for them when he had "made his for
tune" But fortune came slowly to the
peasant emigrant. He was compelled
to send for the brood In installments.
AS soon as he had enough money he
sent for one OF the children. One by
one the youngsters dared the ocean per
lis to 20 to father In America. The
wife was the last to come. Recently
she arrived In st. Louis and the family
was reunited. Learn n lesson OF pa-
tience, constancy and devotion. oh We
prosperous. What think YEP Have YOU
the courage, the endurance. the high
spirit of overcoming hardships and of
hope long deferred OF this Russian
peasant If not, keep stlll. Your re-
pinlngs are out OF place.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18
zangwill's Estimate of Fame.

Israel Zangwill, the Jewish novelist,
wrote his first book when he was
student at London University. The eff
fort occupied four evenings-he always
works in spurts-and he and friend
paid f1O to have the tale published in
pamphlet form. It,sold well at penny
a copy! One little shop in Whitechapel
alone sold 600 copies, and IL even got
on to Smiths bookstalls. ZangwilPs
advice to would-be authors shows that
he has not made name without suf-
fering. He says: IF you are blessed
with talent, great industry and conceit
1t is possible. by dint of Shaving day
and night for years during the flower of
your youth, to attain to fame infinitely
less widespread than a prize fighters -
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

many Germans, as in some Of the cities
Of the Northwest, we sell but little
chewing gum. The young people like
it, but the old people won't let them
use 1t. have seen many boy spanked
by his German mother for using chew
ing gum"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18
The Girl and Her Vocation.

"The future wage-earning girl should
have in her mind during the latter part
of her school life the selection of her
profession" writes Margaret Il. Sang
ster In the Ladies' Home journal. 81
think 1t well for her, too, very frequent
ly, but with intention, to cast about
among her friends for suggestions, to
ask the kind offices of one and another,
and to make known her need of i'm
mediate employment so soon as she
leaves school. Many good positions are
lost because of indecision, or false
pride, or unwise reticence on the part
of those who seek them. The mental
attitude Of the girl in search of employ
ment should be neither Indifferent nor
patronlzing; she should set in motion
every legitimate means, and let those
who may be able to assist her know
something Of her situation. They can
help, and she can seek with much great
er hope of success II the goal in view
be something definite"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

Teller Alvord seems to have proceed
ed on the practical principle that it is
just as well to get plenty while you
are getting.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

beng engaged to each other for
while, have come to the conclusion that
ones career is of more Importance than
the accident" of marriage. DR.. Mac
Donald says professional women should
not give up their pursuits to marry, and
DIR. Ella quite agrees with him. That it
Is possible to marry without abandon
ing ones career can be proved by mod
ern instances. Edith Sessions Upper,
for instance, has done more and better
newspaper work since she got married
than before, and her husband has had
remarkable success in his career. Mrs.
Mary Ellen Lease is also an example
ola acareer-following woman whom mat
rimony could not balk of her aims. TO
turn ones back on Cupid for the sake of
science, art or literature Is to mistake
means for ends. Cupid does not exist
for the sake of science. Science, art, lit
erature and the other things we pursue
In careers are but the handmaidens of
Cupid. When the right person of the
other sex turns up, both Of these career
loving doctors will recognize this fact.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

You can tell man by the books he
reads. In the valise of Alvord, the
100000 bank thief, were found "In
Luck at Last" kidnapped" "a Study
in Scarlet" and around the World in
Eighty Days"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18
What He Writes.

Miss Wunder-They say Mr.. Long
hare writes for the magazines. l won
der what he writes.
Mr.. Sourdropp-oh, he writes, please
send me sample copy."-Baltlmor
American.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

1t seems like "old times come again
once more" to read of battles with Carl
lists in Spain. These reactionaries
spring up like weeds, and nobody out
side the land of the grandees seems to
know the why or wherefore.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

A story is told of wealthy young
Englishman who was cured of blind
ness on his wedding day. With most
men it takes longer.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

At the present rate of increase the
population of the United States will be
1O0,000,000 long before the census of
1000
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

The man who sells his vote is doing,
on a small. scale, exactly what Bene-
dict Arnold did in more conspicuous
way.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

Without you, gentle reader, the re-
corded population of the United States
would be only 76,295,219.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

When people say they will do any
thing in the world for you, they mean
about as much as candidate when he
says his ambition is to serve his
country and his countrymen.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

The United States, which was a coun-
try of inferior cities up to the time Of
the Civil War, is now rapidly becoming
the country of great cities. BY 1890 the
urban tendency had grown SO marked
that our larger towns outnumbered
those Of the British Isles. We had
twenty-seven cities with a population
Of more than 100000 each, against the
twenty-six of Great Britain and Ire
land, and we had fifteen against fifteen
containing population of more than
100000 each. OF course there has been
an increase IL the old country since,
but it is equally certain that we have
increased our lead. OF cities Of more
than 100000 population 1t is possible
that there are now eighteen in Great
Britain and Ireland, while we have
nineteen, and one of these, Greater
New York, represents combination of
two which counted separately in 1890.
Then, too, our cities of over 100000
have increased to thirty which
must leave the islands hopelessly in the
habitants and more now number 159 as
against 124 in 1896, gain of about 20
per cent and one which indicates that
there Is no such concentration of indus
tries in few hands as to prevent
wide distribution of business. But it
Is naturally the older sections of the
country which have sthe greater num-
ber Of these populous places, just as it
Is natural that England should have
more large cities than New York State.
The proportions given are 51.3 per cent
for the North Atlantic division, 3O.S
per cent for the north central division
and 179 per cent for the southern,
western and Pacific coast divisions. In
time the west and far west will approx
Innate the gains of the east, since the
conditions along the same degrees of
latitude should grow to be very similar
with the increase of population. The
country which had but little more
than 100000 people when the repub-
lie was established, and which is still
reckoned as a wilderness by many for
eigners, needs but few years in which
to far surpass all records for urban pop
ulation. 1t will have to be compared
not with other countries but with con-
tinents, and 1t will be marvellous and
inspiring spectacle to see such a great
population of one speech and one flag,
bound together by the closest ties and
enjoying the most perfect political lib
erty, equality and authority that were
ever conferred upon the citizens of any
land.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

Why doesn't someone build a monu-
ment to the man who was able to keep
his mouth shut
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

DIR. Arthur Macdonald and DR.. Ella
b. Everltt, Of Washington, ID. O., after
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1901-01-18

II ignorance is bliss It must be folly
to be otherwise.