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The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1903-08-20
Natiappa District
Gigh School,
And
Commercial Institute.

p Tbs school has Just closed one Of the
most successful years Of it's history. The
COURSE OF STUDY has been extended, the
scope Of work enlarged and the corps Of
teachers Increased.
English, Classic, Teachers and Com
mercial Courses sustained.
7hovO1gh Instruction, .SfyId Discipline
and Individual Responsibility.
We develop the body, train the mind
and guard the spiritual condition of our
pupils. We fit for business, we prepare
Tor college, and we develop character.
Strong religions influence, but not sec
tartan.
Fall term begins September 9Th. Board
in private family. 81 TO - per month.
Tuition from SIS TO S2.50; Music s. per
month Ask for catalogue.
Address all inquiries to
N r. Fertig,
Rev. ~. b. Brown, Prin-
AecrefaFv
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1903-08-20

An idle brain is the devils
scheme factory.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01
A Chinese Joke,

In his recent book on China and the
Chinese" DIR. Giles gives specimen of
Chinese humor which, IL the source
were not known, might well be mis-
taken for American humor.
There is Chinese story which tells
how a very stingy man took paltry
sum of money to an artist-payment is
always exacted in advance-and asked
him to paint his portrait. The artist
at once complied with the request but
when the portrait was finished nothing
was visible save the back of the sitter's
head.
What does this mean?" cried the sit
ter, Indignantly.
well" replied the artist, 81 thought
man who paid so little as YOU paid
wouldn't care TO show his face"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01
HOW BANANAS ARE PACKED.

round, and then they are again pressed
nat and are ready for the weaver. In
order to work the material it must be
dipped into water every few minutes.
If this Is not done the strands become
brittle and break. A hat to command
high price must be perfect, and in or
der that 1t may be so and have no loose
strand, no broken part, the weavers
never work In the hot hours of the day,
and many of them do their weaving
only at night, by candle light.
first-class hat usually takes about
six months to make. The value Of n hat
depends entirely upon it's texture and
pliability. One that costs $500, for ex-
ample, should be so closely woven as to
appear practically smooth to the naked
eye. 1t Is, Of course, made In one piece
and II the owner has not been cheated
he should be able to squeeze his hat
through finger ring. But a hat capa-
Die OF this treatment is about as rare as
a blue diamond.
The craze for Panamas began last
year, and since then the Panama hat in
dustry has become more lucrative than
any other In that part Of South America
adjoining the isthmus, and with me
prospects of making a fortune in few
years many planters have abandoned
the raising Of coffee and rice. The
mountain passes Of the Andes. from
Chimborazo northward, TEEN day and
night with large columns of pack mules
and OK carts bearing their precious bur-
den to Panama. The streets of Panama
itself are flanked with the establish.
ments Of hat brokers, and half the city
Is engaged one way or the other in help
Ing to further this American "craze."
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01

One Of the college clubs gave recep
tion last fall to the members of the
football team. 1t was a great night
for the club. An important game
had just taken place, and the home
team had won. There were speeches
and songs and cheers. Finally some
one called for the trainer. For four
years he had been responsible for the
physical fitness of all the college
teams, and he was as proud Of their
excellence as any graduate present.
But his forte was deeds, not words.
Finally, however, he got warmed up
to the occasion, and this, according to
the New York Evening Post, Is what
he said:
THE only trouble up here" he be-
gan, us the system. It's all wrong,
and were lucky to have as good a
string as we've got over there" jerk
ing his thumb at the team. ITO Illus
trate: The cry is Every man come
out but the men that come out amt
any good at their books, and the booky
ones amt strong enough for the field.
why, l remember when college
opened and the candidates trotted out.
l set my eyes on likely lad, and said
to Mr.. LamsOn and Mr.. Briggs, He's
a find; just what we've been looking
for Then he disappeared, and 1
didn't set eyes on him again till last
week, when l met him going to recta-
ton.
Hey, your says l. why haven't
you been outy
"' Got a condition. says he.
why don't you work it OFF, I
asks.
:; Been trying to- he growls, but it's
something l never studied before
What is it?' says l.
English says he."
In the roar that followed this naive
tale the trainer had hard work TO
make himself heard. He grew red in
the face, waved his hands deprecatlng-
ly. and sat down, with the remark,
The systems all wrong"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01
London First Nights.

1t was at the London first night of
one OF his odd plays that George Ber-
nard Shaw came before the footlights
in answer to repeated and enthusiastic
calls for the author. He had lust
opened his mouth to thank the an
plauders when voice from tho gallery
called out. Il think the play was rot
ten" Mr.. Shaw looked up at him
quickly and said, 81 agree with Won
absolutely, but what chance do we two
stand against all these others?" II
was another play of Mr.. Shaw's. one
that had been acted at n private mat
inee, which he quit town rather than
see. At the end Of the comedy, in an
swer to calls for the author, the stage
manager came out and read n note
from the author saying that, having
seen the play once, he had gone MANY
miles into the country rather than risk
the danger of having to see IL again.
Mr.. Mcclellan, the American drama.
tist, who writes under the name of
Hugh Morton, also never saw a per.
formance Of his uneven but remark.
ably clever satire called "The Girl
from Up-There," and explained his NO.
tons by saying that he was paid for
writing the play, not for seeing IT.
Leslie's Monthly.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01
A WORLDS WONDER.
Such is the Rapid March of Events in
the Great North west

In the Northwest everything seems
to have happened within the last ten
years; events which would be Of epoch.
making Importance in any country at
any time have here crowded one upon
another with wanton prodigality. so
that the Northwesterner, pumped
down in the whirl Of great things. can
himself hardly grasp their full signifi.
canoe, contenting himself with con.
fused superlatives.
Think of this march of events, II
was barely eight years ago that the
gold fields of the Klondike We're
brought to the knowledge Of the world
causing rush of Americans to the
Northwest, and building up suddenly n
new and important business for the
Puget Sound ports, where the miners
outtitted and took ship. Following the
klondike excitement, came the various
Alaska discoveries. and Seattle and
Tacoma were and the the natural
headquarters for most Of the supplies
shipped northward as we'll as the en-.
try point for the returning miners with
their treasure, not little of which is
left to enrich the people Of the ports,
Hardly had the gold excitement
calmed to the PAGES Of steady bust.
ness enterprise when the Spanish War
broke out, and these Pacific cities were
thrown into the turmoil of visiting
battleships and of provisioning and
transporting the army of the Philip.
pines. Then came the opening trade
with our new insular possessions in
the Pacific, the Chinese War and its
call for equipment and It's stir of sol.
diery and transports, followed by the
recent commercial expansion of Japan,
with Its trade demands. And now an
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01

element has just entered into the cal
culations of the cOaSt-the cOnstruc-
ton of the Panama Canal-which will
ervolutionize whole departments of the
worlds trade and exercise profound
influence for good or evil on the cities
of the Northwestern coast.
Many Of the events, it is true, nota-
bly, the opening Of the door to the far
East, are mostly promissory assets;
and yet their prophecy of golden fu-
ture has not been without its profound
effect on the growth of the Pacific cit
les and the attraction of energetic men
with money. To the Pacific ports will
ultimately come most Of the trade Of
the Philippines, worth sixty millions
annually, and growing share of the
billion dollars or more of the annual
business of China, Japan, Siberia and
the Dutch East Indies, to say nothing
of the large foreign trade of Australia
and New Zealand. Alaska once re-
garded as hopelessly distant ani ir-
reclaimable waste Of mountains and
snow, is also progressing with wonder
full rapidity, not only in it's mines. but
in the development of it's fisheries and
in the utilization of its forests and it's
agricultural resources, so that to-day
the Alaskan trade is of much import
ance.
While these world events were
crowding upon one another, the devel-
opment Of the country tributary to the
coast, upon which the solid progress
Of the cities must ultimately rest, was
going forward with unprecedented
rapidity. Western Canada was open
ing to settlement, is opening now, in
marvellous manner; railroads were
building; schemes for irrigating the
arid lands were in course Of develop
ment; crop production was increasing;
timber was being cut from an almost
inexhaustible supply, to supplement
the waning forests Of Maine and Mich
igan; coal mines were being opened,
and salmon caught-all the forces Of
industry working together with ra-
pidity which must always remain a
worlds wonder.-Century.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01

The most astounding discovery in
connection with the recent raiding of
the "get-rlch-quick" men Is the char.
acter OF the men to whom the swim.
ding circulars Were sent. Upon the
mailing lists are the names of 10000
clergymen, 100000 physicians and
other professional and mercantile men
IN proportion. or course, not all these
men bit" If one in hundred did so
1t was enough for the swindlers. But
how could any educated man have
peeh SO foolish as to expect from the
unknown something for nothing? ?"
How could any moral teacher or any
healer OF men accept profits which
could only be gained at the cost of
cheating others?
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01

The utterances OF two Presidents
he of Harvard University and he Of
the United States-on the subject of
the threatened extinction of the Amor.
lean family have revived the old tal,,
about tax on bachelors as a correct.
I've OF the pending menace. Doubt.
less many more women than we sus.
pect have had worthy marriage oppor.
tunities at one time or another some
nave grown up with fanclful notions
OF the kinds of husbands they must
nave; some have made wealth rather
tnan sturdy manhod the test. Estab.
iish good, stiff tax on voluntary 70.
male celibacy and generation or so
would weed lot Of this sort of non.
sense out OF the sex at large. Let us
give the bachelors rest and try the
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01
plying hat luxuries for the men of
Yankeedom.

plying hat luxuries for the men Of
Yankeedom.
Before 1897 all of these hats were Of
the shapeless sombrero shape, with
crease across the top Of the crown. The
shape has been improved, but the.
method of making the hats Is the same
as it was many years ago, when they
received the name Panama" because.
they began to come by way of that
place to the United States and other
distant countries. The material used in
the making of Panama hats Is the
screw palm, called by naturalists Car
ludovica palmata. 1t is of the palm
family, and is a stemless species, COM.
mon In all shady places all over Pan
ANA and along the coast Of New Gra-
nada and Ecuador. The leaves, pleated
like a fan, are borne on three cornered
stalks, six to fourteen feet high. They
are about four feet in diameter and
deeply cut into four or five divisions,
each of which is again cut. The leaves
are gathered while young and stiff, and
the parallel veins removed, after which
they are split into shreds, but not sep
arated at the stalk end, and immersed
in boiling water for short time and
bleached in the sun.
These strands are about a yard long
and about half inch wide. Before
they are ready for the brader they are
rolled from either edge and become
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01

Canada will perhaps before long
realize that this treaty is not designed
to submit the case to an arbitration
at all, was not so intended by either
England or the United States, but is
merely a polite means of putting an
end to boundary claims in behalf of
which England has never been able
to advance the first substantial argu-
ment and In opposition to which the
United States has only to point to the
British admiralty globes and maps,
which fix the line precisely as the
American contention now and always
has placed ii.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01
THE PRECIOUS PANAMA.
North American Craze for Hats Keen.
South America Busy.

NOrCn american SraZc TOT Hats Keen.
South America Busy.
The Panama hat craze is probable
the most expensive fashion ever adont
ed by men. Lyman j. Gage is said to.
have paid $500 for a hat-enough to nav
for trip to Europe or to keep a young
man in college whole year. King ed.
ward gave up $3.50 for his, and Jean da
Reszke reached the top notch--he paid
$500.
These figures are Of course away
above the average, but no Panama
worth wearing can be had for less than
$25. If you aim to have hat that NAV
be tucked away in vest pocket like
lead pencil or slipped through a finger
ring you must be in the coupon-clippng
class. Nevertheless, in spite of these
figures, Panama hats are being sent
from South America in ship loads, and
about half the population of Ecuador
and hundreds Of persons in other South
American countries are engaged in sup
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01

The cheerful unanimity with which
the physicians pronounce DR.. Sejou's
pituitary gland theory to be as old as
the hills or absolute rubbish affords
further demonstration of the great and
abiding love which medical gentlemen
bear one for another. When every
doctor pronounces every other doctor to
be quack-or words to that effect
1t is small wonder that the laity occa-
slonally takes the profession at its
word,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01
effect of threat, at least, on the fair

In the interests of ante-matrimonial
honesty and pre-nubial frankness, the
German courts have given a divorce to
a woman who discovered only after
marriage that her husband was bald.
Before the wedding he nefariously con-
cealed his capillary lack by wearing Il
wig The possibility Of that ruling in
vading an American court is food for
thought. However, should sweethearts
contide to one another their physical
decrepitude? Should the kneeling pc
titiOner asking for his loved ones
hand, plead in tender accents: "Dearie,
my teeth were made in Syracuse" or
Darling, the glitter of my eye will
fade? And should the coy and blush
ing maiden, loath to confess but eager
to be won, confess, ''Take me, though
l am not what | SEEM? There are
many details Of makeup charming to
the lovers biased gaze. that lose their
glory during the fourth quarter Of the
hOneymOon-the removable complex
ion, the adjustable hair, the jointed,
self-acting anatomy to say nothing Of
the thousand and one appurtenances
which remain to the end mysteries to
the masculine mind. Should all these
enter into the matrimonial problem,
then indeed a Dauiel must come to
judgment.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01

1t Is an occasion for public congratu-
latlon that the Supreme Court has
dealt another blow to the lottery evil
The states have forbidden lotteries to
DO business but they still exist and
still do business. This final adjudica-
ton by affirming the constitutionality
OF pains and penalties imposed upon
those who assist them to do business
will make it more difficult for them to
do it.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01
,ExlnsxSCieflCe
::

lie eleClTlC lle-SdNluS hooh VI u
McKenna a Scotchman, is long pole
with a hook and an electric light at
the outer end. The light is made to
glow when seeking body in the
water at night.
The hearing of fishes has been much
debated. The presence of an internal
ear has given reason for believing in
the existence of this sense, but other
evidence has led to the conclusion that
the function of the ear is to preserve
the equilibrium of the fish In the
waer, sound being felt through the
skin and not. heard From late eX-
periments, in which the nerves of the
skin and of the ear We're cut in turn,
G. H. Parker finds that at least one
species Fundulus heteroclitus) must
hear with the ear.
A phenomenon known as "cavita-
ton" has lately come to be recognized
as one Of the most important causes of
loss of efficiency in the driving screws
of steamships. When the velocity Of
the screw Is increased above certain
limit a cavity is formed in the water
inside which the screw revOlves, and
q further increase OF power then
causes no increase of the ships speed
Mathematical investigation, tested by
practical experiments, has shown that
cavitation can be avoided by preserv-
ing a certain ratio between the resist
ance and the propelling surface con-
cerned. Upon this principle the speed
of some vessels has been greatly in
creased by simply changing their driv-
ing screws.
The.United States consul at Progreso
says that the fields and gardens of
Yucatan are filled with useful vege-
tables and fragrant herbs unknown to
the outer world. In the cultivated
fields are grown species of Indian corn,
beans, squashes and tubers for which,
In this country, we have no name, be-
cause we have never seen nor heard
of them. In the forests and jungles
grow wild fruits, already excellent in
quality, which could be made delicious
by scientific cultivation. Mr.. Thomp-
son, the consul, AYERS that there are
half score of wild fruits which offer
more promising results to cultivation
than ever did the bitter wild almond.
which was the progenitor of the peach.
There are six varieties of Indian corn
in 1ucatan, and the natives speak Of
this plant as 1.-The grace of God"
Mr.. e. A. Martel, the celebrated ex-
pbrer of French caverns. has lately
been explaining, before the Academy
OF Sciences, the remarkable variations
In the flow of the great natural foun-
tain of Vaucluse. This fountain, which
mas been famous for ages, and is con-
nected with the romance of Petrarch
and Laura, excites the admiration of
all travellers. Arthur Young visited
1t, during his travels in France on the
eve or the great revolution, and gave
a delightful sketch of 1t in his book.
The fountain is so abundant with wa
ter that 1t gives rise to the Sorgue, q
small river. Mr.. Martel says, in fact,
That the fountain is the debouchment
or a river. which, in the upper part
or Its course, flows entirely under
ground; and he explains the curious
Irregularities in the quantity and the
temperature Of the water by certain
assumptions as to the shape and size
Of the subterranean cavities that give
1t passage.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01

In all the discussion of the size Of
families which has been provoked by
President Roosevelt's words on the
subject, it is somewhat surprising that
no one has gone back to Herbert Spen-
Ger and Walter Bagehot, both Of whom
considered the question with much
care. Both concluded that as men
and women became more intellectual,
that as their brains and nervous sys-
tens grew larger and more complex,
they would tend to have fewer chill
dren. 1t is not argued that intelligent
parents may not or do not have large
families, but simply that with increas-
ing intellectually the tendency is de-
cidedly toward small families. The
theory seems to be that with the strain
of modern life and the pressure of the
struggle for existence the brain has
grown far larger, and that with this
increasing brain there is a decreasing
fertility. Doubtless this is a correct
analysis. But it may be that the strain
of life and the struggle for existence
operate directly ON the prudential fac
ulties, as well as through the effect of
the Increased brain development. At
any rate, there seems to be natural
law at work that we must acknowl-
edge. But Mr.. Bagehot goes further
and insists that in an age of discus
sion-such as that which we have and
are likely to have from now on-fam-
lilies are likely to be small. He agrees
with Spencer that increasing intellect
ual power has tendency to check re-
production, but he goes beyond and
back of this and argues that nothing
does so much to stimulate intellectual
power as to live in country where
government by discussion prevails. If
all this Is true, is it surprising that
there should be some decrease in the
size of American families? For wheth-
er we are markedly intelligent or not,
we are certainly prone to discussion.
Possibly this matter of race preserva-
ton Is being very well attended to.
Multiplication should be on a diminish
ing scale. And with the substantial
disappearance of the old checks on
population, such as war, famine and
pestilence, which formerly operated
with n deadliness that we cannot now
conceive of, and with the saving of life
through better medical and surgical
care, 1t may be that there is not such
great need for large families as there
once was. Nor is it bad idea to have
society recruited from what we speak
of as the lower classes, which is what
now seems to be going on. There are
no indications that this country is soon
to suffer from Il lack of people to do
its work. On the whole therefore. it
may be doubted whether there Is any
such problem before us as that which
the President and those who agree
with him speak Of. Certainly the ad-
miration of large families simply be-
cause they are large has nothing what
ever to rest on. Quality must count
for something, and the ability of the
parents to care for their children must
count for great deal.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01
Cause OF White Hair.

Gray hairs at an early age are hered.
itary In certain families. 1t is thought
to he the result of men with DARK hair
marrying women with dark hair
through several generations.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01

Neverless, the preachments Of the
wise men will continue to have no eff
feet on the size of the average Ameri-
can family.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01
Hopeful Woman.

woman is naturally more hopeful
than man."
Yes, there's my wife, for instance;
Tor years past every time she has had
occasion to buy fish she has asked the
dealer If they were fresh, hoping, 1
suppose, that some day he'll say no.
Philadelphia Press.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01

After all, is there not some sense in
what Hetty Green says-that churches
which will not pay their debts are not
worthy of continuing in business?
Honesty is the best policy-except in
the matter of taxes.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01

Poultney Bigelow thinks that Ger
many could whip us out Of our boots.
Well, 1t would be new experience, to
say the least, for the United States to
be whipped, easily or otherwise.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-01

Germany war lord is naturally less
Inclined to emphasize Love one an
other" as Professor Harnack suggests,
than keep my commandments" espe-
cially as the imperial theologian is like
ly to mistake the identity of the pro-
noun.