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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

A New York jury has awarded the
plaintiff in libel suit six cents dam
ages instead of the $4,000 for which
he sued. 1t was plain case Of libel.
The newspaper had charged the de.
fendant with the commission Of seri-
lutely untrue. The newspaper did not
deny technical libel. But in the trial
1t was shown that there had been no
malicious motive in the publication.
1t was contended that newspapers In
meeting the public demand for their
existenceamust depend upon press as
sociations, correspondents and report
ers and cannot therefore stop to verify
every item. The publication Of daily
newspaper would be impossible else
1t was further shown that haste IL
necessary and that in the rush Of going
to press false statements are sure tC
creep In. Editors and newspaper work
ers are fallible and liable to err. But
1t was argued-It would be unjust ant
unfair to hold publishers financially
responsible for occasional error OF
statement, especially where disposition
ls manifest to correct such errors and
where there Is absolute absence OF
malice or purpose to injure. The jury
took this view. More and more are
courts and juries demanding that abso
lutte malice must be shown in order tt
constitute libel And why not? 1t Ii
the motive that is the essence Of all
violation Of law. Why should excep
| ton be made in the law Of libel?
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

Ethel-You say Algy has been heart.
lessly deceived by young woman.
Did she lead him on to think that she
loved him?
May-Oh, no. She led him on to be.
lieve that she didn't care n ran for
him. and then when he carelessly pro.
posed accepted him on the spot.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

Over In Germany man may kill
another In a duel II he Is willing to
serve five days in jail. This is a sick
ening hardship, but the emperor hopes
before long to fix it so that the muir
derer can send his hat and coat to be
his proxy In serving the sentence.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

Eight men fought duel In France
just to show how harmless the sport
is. But did the world need this demon
sration? Has any person been seri-
ously hurt in a French duel within
the memory Of man?
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

The man who works hard all day
and goes home at night to be told that
he is a poor stick and failure be-
cause somebody else gets larger sal
ary than he, may keep right on saying
the old bachelor isn't half man, but
people don't always say what they
think.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29
Really Looking for Work.

Gritty George-Lady, I hear da'
cuckoo clock Is out of order.
The Lady-What Of thati
Gritty George-Well, + Just wa'
say dat I'll sit around an do de cu'
in every hour fer me board and
In. I'm always willin' to work.
adelphla Press.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

The glass blowing machines are go
Ing to cut the price of window glass.
Somebody ought to invent coal blow
Ing machine.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

A caulfower trust has been formed
by Long Island caulifower ralsers.
The sauerkraut business Is still being
carried on in haphazard way.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

On recent Sunday nine persons, five
women and four men, committed sui
eide In Chicago. Nearly every one Of
these went to self-destruction because
of hard financial conditions. They were
weary of the strenuous life, the women
helpless in llfes struggle, the men pro-
nounced failures In business. Start
ling, is 1t not? But that Is only an in
cident In the alarming increase of self
murder. According to the Chicago
Tribune, an authority on suicide statis-
tics, the number OF suicides during the
first two months of 1903 was double
that of the first two months of Inst
year. What is the cause? Some will
say II Is because Of the lessening of
religious obligations or the loosening
Of moral restraints. Others that II is
the nervous pace of modern living
Others that there Is something wrong
In the economy of our life, that wealth
Is inequltably distributed. Perhaps MI
these are to blame. Especially is |,
plain that business conditions grind
men to pieces beneath the upper and
neither millstones. Between the com
pettive system. which still largely con
trolls economic conditions, and tn,
trusts, which are beginning to con
troll, flesh and blood is sometimes un
able to bear the strain. And the plt,
OF 1t! Preach against suicide. Moral
lie about 1t. Sheer at human weak
ness, II you like. Denounce It as cow
ardly. Inveigle against 1t as sinful and
silly. Even legislate against It. Afte,
all-there are the grim facts. Suicid,
Is Increasing.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

General Booth thinks we are a very
p'ous people simply because we do not
make fun Of street preachers. Here Is
case where piety and tolerance may
be sadly mixed.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29
CROW WITH LIVES TO SPARE.
IL Tormented Hogs ana Cau.ed ,
Farmer No End OF Woe.

Say you seed hundred crows in
one dock?" asked an Illinois farmer
Of man who was telling him of n
visit he had made to the country a
few weeks ago. The farmer leaned
over In his chair. took aim at a cunpi.
dor half why across the lobby OF n
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29
One Difficulty In the Wav.

II can marry any girl please" re.
marked the Wise Guy.
"Yes, but you don't seem to please
any Of them," murmured the Simple
Mug ug.-Philadelphia Record.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29
Trying a Quick NIethod-

Bings-What are you going to do
with that stick Of dynamite, old man
Bangs-Pm going to blow a porus
plaster on my chest.-Indlanapolis
Journal.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

There are more daughters of revolu
tions in Venezuela than one can shake
q stick at.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

General Funston Is all right to CON-
mand Alaska If he can be held back
from attempting to swim Bering strait.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

The London Times accuses the Amer
leans of being on financial debauch.
Not guilty, your honor, so far as we,
personally, are concerned.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

A 50 postage stamp will soon be Is
sued People who want to enjoy trav-
cling can thus send the baby by mail.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

The date of Thanksgiving should be
changed so as to fall on the day after
the adjournment Of Congress.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

The friends we need are the ones
that are never on hand when we want
them.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

A woman's brain declines In weight
after she is thirty years Of age, but
some Old widowers are the most light
headed people in the world.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

Making Cautious Approson
ADVISE me. Uncle Jack"
"0f course; what is itT
"Shall ask you for SOS or w
Life.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

The Mississippi river Is one Of Amer
ica's great problems. Upon levees and
bank protection alone the government
and the states have spent over $50 O,0OO-
600, and the river of the floods Is as
great as ever. From Missouri to Louis
lana men have been on guard day and
night to protect their homes, and in
one at least Of the states 1t has been
necessary to release the convicts and
put them at work on the levees. 1t
Is the great drainage area Of the Mis-
sissippi combined with the character
Of the soil through which 1t flows that
makes 1t SO troublesome. There are
four large and well-defned drainage
systems, stretching from the Rockies
to the Alleghanies, that find their out
let through 1t. Any one Of them can
flood the lower river at freshet time.
Two or three combined bring ruin. The
silt forever drifting down from the
mountains fills the bed of the stream,
and as the bed rises the levees must
rise with 1t. New high-water marks
are made, and the pressure Of the
floods becomes greater and greater
What shall be done for the river to
replace the hopeless levee system
Forestry reserves In the mountains, i'm
pounding dams at the headwaters
great reservoirs in the st. Francis
basin in Missouri and Arkansas to hold
the overflow, all have been suggested
Efforts to develop complete system Of
control are, however, yet to come L
has been truly said that the man wht
masters the Mississippi will be one o.
the great benefactors Of his country
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

Never look a gift horse in the mouth
by feeling for his spavins.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

All the worlds stage-and the men
generally gobble up the speaking parts.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

OF a committee to put the bell on Tab
by's neck was proposed. That ended
the scheme.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29

Conscientious reformery finally
to the conclusion that reform u v
sibla
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-29
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER.

cHAs. r. q ADA K. soULE, Pass.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-26

Tilere viii be no serious difficulties in
the construction of the Asiatic line, nor
of the American, in Alaska and the
yukon region"
With American lines in Alaska al
ready in successful operation and a
Russian railway already built to the
Pacific the project, which is 10 a new
one, takes on a seriousness 1t has never
heretofore attained. The scheme of
railway connection with Asia is no
more ehimerical than the suggestion of
lines would have been eonsid-
cred fifteen years ago. There are mar
vicious mineral deposits in Asia and
velop, and where wealth is the railway
finds Its way. Perhaps within a few
years the foreigner will have to find
another point for his joke.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-26
The Church a Moral Promoter.
[The independently

What the promoter IL in the business
world the church is in the ethical world.
1t has been and should always be the
uioneer the inventor. 1t is not merely
in religious matters that the church
has been the leader. The world laughed
at the church for centuries because 1t
boarded books and wasted the time of
those devoted to It's service In copying
and studying the writings of the
Greeks and Romans. Instead of culti-
waiting the ancient AMI honorable pro-
fession of fighting, these deluded crea-
lures Illuminated mar useripts, painted
churches and composed music. But
finally. when the time came. art. music,
and architecture burst from the mon
astic cell as Il butterfly from its chry-
sails spreading its beautiful wings in
the open. Schools II colleges are now
supported by all the people. Every
bod whether fond Gf reading or not,
recognizes the usefulness of printing
houses and libraries. Once it was only
the ~fanatical missionary who too any
interest in barbarous races. who took
down their language, observed their
customs and preserved their primitive
mythology. Now we have bureaus of
.ethnology and societies devoted TO he
study of FOLKLORE. it was the church
which first recorded and regulated mar
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-26
TO ASIA IN A WAGON.

There is an old story of an IriShman
who in replying TO the ~insinuation that
he had never been aboard a boat asked,
DO ye think l came from Ireland in a
wagon TIE point OF his witnicisin
was the manifest iinpossitility of Il
wagon road across the Atlantic. but a
railroad scheme which Is being seri-
ously considered is likely tu take the
less tina a railway connection between
the two hemispheres, which will allow
traffic and travel between Asia, Europe
and America by wagon" This pro-
jected road is to be an extern sion of our
Alaskan fines to meet a Russian line:
at Behring's strait, where a tunnel
shall connect The two. The Revue
Solentifique seriously con siders the
project feasible, and says:
This PROJECT appears to be taking
shape to judge from recent news Tor.
the subjeet]. 1t has been set on foot.
by Americans, and the syndicate thar
has it in charge has recently applied Il,
the Russian government for the privi.
lege Of constructing the ASH attic part OF
the line, extending from VladivostocE
to Cape Nanaimo. In return for tht#
concession the syndicate proposes tn
the funds. build the road and
run it for a certain number Of years,
then selling 1t to the Russian govern
ment at a price dependent on the net
cost, increased by 10 per cent, for each
The syndicate will also obtain
land and mining cones sstons.
The project includes the conssruc-
ton of a line connecting N~ladiyostoct
with Cape Nanaimo. on sring strait.
the building of Il tunnei under the
strait, and finally the connection of the
American end Of Its tunnel with the
lines by a roai thru Alaska.
a continuous line of railway
join the whole of Europe, from
to Constantinople, and a large
part of Asia, TO the entire North
continent. The most inter-
esting part of the work would evil
iantfy be the construction of che sub
marine tunnel under Beriu,s strait. This
IS not of great width. 1t is narrower
the channel from Calai and Do
YER, and there are two islands In the
The tunnel could thus be built
in two sections. and 1t is proposed to
drive it by means of tubes. . : > 1t
even been proposed to build a
bridge across the strait, out the cur
rent is too powerful and the push of
the ice too great toward the close of
for such a project to succeed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-26
TWO KINDS OF MOB MURDER.

Americans have borne much recriml-
i"ratSon on account ow the B'nai Birth
petition offered the Russian govern
mert by the president. Even American
newspapers have been prodigal in their
references to %lynchings and negro
I~burnings and advice to sweep before
our own doors before insisting on the
renovation of Russian doorsteps. Too
imuch of this criticism was we'll APP
Piled. The shame and outrage of mob
murder is a disgrace to the American
people, but there Is a marked distinc-
tion between the motive of an Ameri-
can l%ynching and a Russian massacre.
IT the Associated Press reports Of the
latest Russian massacre of Jews are TO
be credited the Russian government
not oniy encouraged III instigated the
mob to murder. The police and the
military protected the killers against
the resentment of the Jews whose lives
We're attempted and whom the instinct
of SeIf-p@SerNatlon uFoNe 10 ueltHu
themselves.
In America the government stands
between the mob and Its victims. Its
troops protect the law without question
OF the guilt or innocence of the object
of the mob's violence. A %lynching IN
America is an ebullition. 1t Is accom-
plished before the arm of the govern-
msnt can intervene. a Russian Jew
batting is ~connived at and assisted by
the executives Of the law. 1t Is as
much a state affair as a bonfire of
in Nero's gardens.
There is a difference in lynchings.
Let us hear no more of the bloodguilti-
Of this country in connection with
Ia; remonstrance against Russian race
massacres. The uncomfortable out
of a neighborhood against the
ptrpetrator of a heinous crime and the
deliberate murder OF a race by the
government which should afford 1t pro-
lection are entirely different things.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-26
STRONGEST EVIDENCE OF FAITH
Mcbride & VIII Guarantee That Hy-
omei Will Cure the Worst Case Of
Catarrh in MarshaJItown.

When one OF the most reputable con-
Germs in Marshailtown guarantees that
q medicine will effect a cure or they
will refund the money, it speaks vol
umes as to the merits OF that remedy.
1t is in this way that Mcbride & VIII
are selling Hyomei, the treatment tina
has made SO many remarkable cures
of both acute and chronic catarrh
in M%arshalltown and vicinity.
Hyomei is not a pill nor is it a liquid
that has to be taken with q tablespoon
or wineglass. Just breathe it by the aid
of an inhaler that comes in every outfit
and benefit will be seen from the first
treatment.
1t destroys all germ life in the air
passages and lungs and enriches ard
purifes the blood with additional ozone.
1t cures catarrh of the head and throat,
or of the stomach, liver and kidneys.
Wherever mucous membrane contains
catarrhal germs. there Hyomei will d,
its work of healing. When using this
treatment, the air you breathe will BE-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-26
CURES cATARRH.
"Hyomei the Most Wonderful cura
for catarrh Ever Discoversd," Say
Mcbride r. Will.

Do not try TO cure catarrh by taking
drugs into the stomach; it annOt be-
cured in that manner. The only way
in which this too common disease can
be cured is thru a direct application
that will kill the bacilli of catarrh and
prevent their growth.
Hyomei is the only known method OF
treatment that accomplishes this. It b
the simplest, most pleasant. and the
only absolute cure for catarrh that has
ever been discovered.
Thousands of unsolicited itestimon-
ials have been received from the most
prominent men and in the coun-
try who have been cured by this most
remarkable remedy. Ministers, bank
ers, lawyers. ven eminent physicians
have given strong testimonials Is to
the remarkable powers OF Hyomei "a
cure catarrh.
The complete Hyomei outfit costs but
81, consisting OF an inhaler, dropper.
and sufficient Hyomei to last several
weeks. This will effect a cure in ordi-
nary cases. but for chronic and deep
seated cases OF catarrh, longer use may
be necessary; and then extra bottles OF
Hyomei can be obtained for so cents.
1t is not alone the best cit might be
called the only method OF curing ca.
tarrh. but it is the most economical.
Mcbride & Will have so much conn.
dence in the power of Hyomei to cure
catarrh. hat they will. for a limited
time. sell this medicine under their per.
sonal guarantee to refund the money il
the purchaser can say that 1t did not
help them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-26

Nearly every one who has catarrh
knows how foolish it is to try and
cure it by drugging the stomach. Tenn
porary relief ma be given, but a cure
seldom comes.
Until recently our physician would
have said the only way to cure catarrh
would be to nave a change of climate,
but now with Hyomei you can carry
Il health giving climate in your vest
pocket, and by breathing it q few min
utes four times a day, soon cure our
self.
The complete Hyomei outfit costs but
81, and consists of an inhaler that can
be carried in the vest pocket, a medi-
cine dropper and a bottle of Hyomei.
The inhaler lasts a lifetime and Il one
bottle does not cure, an extra bottle
of Hyomei can be secured for 80 cents.
1t is the most economical OF all reme-
dies advertised for the cure of catarrh,
and is the only one that follows nature
in her method of treating diseases OF
the respiratory organs.
Mcbride & Will have sold a great
many Hyomei outfits, and the more
they sell the more convinced they are
that they are perfectly safe in guar
anteeing to refund the money It Hy-
onlei does not cure.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-26
MISSOURI VS.. MISSOURI.

A Missouri farmer writing to the
Tfmes-Rapubilean objects to an edi-
torial article entitled Don't Compare
Iowa With Missouri wnich appeared
In this paper some days ago. He OBJ
jects to the classification of many Mis-
SQUIRT farmers as CRACKERS ant be-
|lieves Missouri is quite as good morally
and agriculturally considered as Iowa.
Perhaps it is as we'll to let the Missou-
rians argue ON his case among hem
selves and with this in View the follow
ing from the ST. Louis G!obe-Denlocrat
lis presented:
beginning with a denial that the
price of land of equal fertility is lower
IN Missouri than In Illinois and Iowa,
the, Republic has found It advisable to
abandon that view and attempt TO give
reasons why the margin in this re-
srect is against Missouri. 1t asserts
that the prairies of Illinois and 1owa
are more available for agriculture, that
those states have been better adver-
entail to other states than Missouri;
that the civil war retarded Missourls
growth by at least ten years, ard that
Chicago ~miilionaires are buying and
hulling Illinois lands. The ACT IS that
Missouri land just as good as the prai-
RES of Illinois is selling for about half
as much. II would be hundreds of
millions in the pockets of Missouri
farmers if they could arrive at the true
cause of the disparity of prices and
work for a corrective. As for adver-
Using, nothing Is done III that line by
ignorance, bitter prejudlces ard COR
rupt standard of government. Bour-
bonism, just as We have said, adver-
tises Missouri down, not UP. 1t not
only prevents immigration, but tells
those who are here to move away if
Bourbon politics does not suit them.
THE law of supply, and demand
the Republic, takes nc ~eognizanee
OF politics. Shades of the lasi demo-
cratic administration, are the people OF
United States supposed 10 tie with
out memories? Have democratic
tariffs no effect on supply and
demand? What paralyzed business In
this country between 1893 and 1897 but
political incompetence, coupled. with a
currency and halfway repudi-
stian of the governments finallcial OBJ
success next year wouli unsettie sup
aiy and demand to an enormous extent.
souph5use would loom up again for the
In regard to boodling
Republic says Illinois Is worse than
Missouri, and then resorts to its stereo-
phrase about OBTAINING a state.
IN trying to bolster up Missouri Bour-
it finally admits the difference
claimed in the price OF lands, and
f 1t cared TO acknowledge the truth 1t
would confess also that the cause is
Missouri Bourbonism. that Sc f-evident
blight upon political honesty and
progress"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-26
A Remarkable Record.

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has a
remarkable record. 1t has been in use
for over thirty years. during which
time many million bottles have been
sold and used. 1t has long been the
standard and main reliance in the
treatment of Group in thousands Of
homes. yet during all this time no case
has yer been reported to the manu-
facturers In which 1t failed to effect a
cure. When given as o as the child
becomes hoarse or even as o as the
croupy cough appears it will prevent
the attack. 1t is pleasant 70 take: many
children like it. 1t contains no opium
or other harmful substance and may
be given as confidently 20 a baby as to
an adult. For sale by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-26

riage: now it is done by the state. Even
u form of representative government
with its unique harmonizing of unity
and adaptability, is a gift from canon
law to civil law.
For the church as a leader there is
more demand than ever; for the church
as a follower there is no vacancy. AS
d duplicator, as a drag, the church looks
sadly out of place. but a church with
Imagination. with ideals, will make its
own place. The moral world. is not
finite: there are always new lands, new
continents to discover. The world viii
not listen to a church which has only
platitudes to teach; truths which ev-
erybody accepts, however little they
may practice them. The living church
must nave it's school of prophets as We'll
as its caste of prieStS.