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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-01-30
SHERIFF's ASSESSMENTS

King. MISUNDERSTANDING at q
point 20 chains W of Sc corner of
$ ), run thence n % chains to
right of way of Corvallis and
Eastern railroad thence norther-
" along said right Of way to g
line of NV I of said s 3 f; thence
$ on said line to sw corner of
NV Il of sc u of said s 3:
thence g 17.3 chains to beginning
containing 5o.31 acres, s 3. t II,
$ o: also beginning at Sc cor
ner of NV u of s 3. run n to $
bank of Yaquina river about 55
rods down river on south bank
of said river to s line of NV "
of Sc Y, S 3: thence e on said
line about 30 rods to beginning.
containing % acres. $ 3. { II, 70
Halliday. William-Begin 4S0 feet g
and o feet $ of Y $ corner on
W line of = IA. run e 1926 feet
thence S 204 feet: thence W 426
feet thence u 204 feet to beginn.-
ing. S IA. t II, + II, . acres. 9
And OF Friday the 9th day of Februs
1903. at the hour of o o'clock. a. m.
said day. n from day to day therea,
will sell the above described real est
Tor cash (subiect to redemption), to sa
~ said warrants, costs and accruing co
as aforesaid.
J. II. ROSS.
Sheriff OF Lincoln County
io'edo' oregon, January 30, 1908.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-01-30

Through personally conducted tour
LIST sleeping cars between Portland and
Chicago once a week, and between Or
den and Chicago three times a week
via the Scenic line.
Through Standard sleeping car,
daily between Ogden and Chicago. via
the Scenic line.
Through Standard sleeping car,
daily between Colorado Springs and
st. Louis.
Through Standard and tourist sleep
Ing cars daily between San Francisco
and Chicago, via Los Angeles and E
Paso.
Through Standard sleeping cars and
chair cars daily between st. Paul and
Chicago.
Be sure that your ticket reads vi,
the Great Rock Island Route.
The best and most reasonable din
Ing car service.
ing a service. For information
T. J. CLARK, Tray. Pass. Agent
L. B. GoRHAM,
Gen. Agt.. $50 Alder St., Portland, Or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21
Progressive Birmingham.

Not only has this city the only steel frame buildings in this state, but it has the only steam-heating system in this state, and in both respects it will not soon have a state rival The fact is, 1t has the only steam heating sys- tenn in the cotton states with one sin gle exception.
 The steam heating system that Is now going underground daily will cover the entire business section from the railroads to Fifth avenue, and even little beyond at one point, and from wenty-second to Eighteenth street, inclusiye-four blocks one way and six blocks the other, or twenty-four blocks in all. This considerable space need not next year contain a single stove or grate, so far as actual heating pow CT is concerned, although custom and old-fashioned comfort may lead to the retention of some time-honored grates.
 The addition of steam heat to the conveniences of this town Is another step towards making it an office cen ter, which it is destined to be. No town has a better system of drainage, and the entire valley will soon be equipped, from Bessemer to East Lake, a dis tance of nineteen miles, with sanitary sewers, and 1t will soon become the healthiest valley in the south. It is noN for that matter.
 Heretofore the city has not been fully equipped to invite general offices to come In, or any offices of more than local importance, but from this time onward it will be bidder for all offices doing business in the cotton states, of which Birmingham is the only absolute geographical center.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21
Successful Show.

'"rhe Last Days of Pompeli did a fine business in Birmingham during the past week." remarked a gentleman who saw the exhibition. ''No doubt the small boy thought the Fourth was coming rather early, but this did not hinder his en- joyment of the dazzling fireworks. The crowds were large, and everybody seemed we'll pleased. The circus features could have been eliminated without much loss but the spectacular part and the pyro- technic display after the eruption was very fine
 "Ths funny thing about this kind of a show is the impossibllity of preventing great many people on the outside from enjoying 1t about as much as those who pay for admission. Every evening prob ably several thousand negroes gathered on the hill on one side of the enclosure and when Vesuvius burst forth in mighty eruption the woods echoed with their shouts of delight"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21
CIerqymen at Baseball Games.

In Atlanta this sign is posted at the gates of the grounds where games of the Southern league are played: "A minister's card is good as a pass" Some of the Atlanta clergymen are present at every game, and they are always welcomed
 Why should they not go? Why sAould not a wholesome outdoor ath- letic sport, in mich betting has no public part, receive the moral support o1 every good man in a community :? In this town two clergymen attend the league games with considerable reg ularity, and others are present occa- sionally
 The truul is, an extension of the At lanta rule as to ministers cards would be an excellent innovation--one, too, that would lend to the sport moral tone and place it before the public in the proper light. All persons need re- taxation and amusement from the tolls of everyday life, and if they can secure these in the open summer air, where breezes blow and even the sun shines, all the better. All the better, too, if they can secure such a change from the humdrum of existence by watching the efforts of athletes in a well-regu- lated game, as the Romans did two thousand years ago, and as every whole-souled and whole-muscled people have done ever since.
 Baseball is perhaps the best national sport that has ever been devised It certainly is fine spectacle, in which more is given for the admission price than othc. sport affords. Its general tendency is tov ~ds the training of stronger men, and stronger men means a republic better equipped for the struggles of life, be they individual or national.
 The Birmingham team could not do better than to open its gates to all clergymen, as the Atlanta team does, and the Birmingham clergy could not do better on an afternoon than to ac- cept the invitation, thereby gaining fresh vigor for their own work and set. ting good example for their fiocks, who feel the need of amusement and relaxation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21

24s%; Virginia, 2501s; South Carolina, 136; Georgia, 12; Alabama, 46; Louis jana, Il, and Kentucky, 7S miles.
 The railroad mileage in this state in 1840 extended from Tuscumbia to Decatur at the head of Muscle Shoals, distance of forty-six miles. This road was built in 1884, and it was the first railroad west of the Alleghanies or Blue Ridge Tn 1852 Alabama had but 155 miles of railroad, being the line at Tuscumbia, the Montgomery and West Point, S8 miles long, and 8 miles of the Mobile and Ohio. When the war came on there were but 819 miles in this state, whereas now there are nearly 5000 miles.
 These early railroads were poor af- fairs alongside the modern line with It's S0-pound rails and huge locomo- lives and substantial roadways. They were not so good as the old Bessemer dummy line in many respects, but they served the state excellently during the war, and led on to the changes and improvements that all have witnessed in the last five years. At present the railroads in the south are kept well abreast of lines in the north, and one can make and does make as good time" and hauls as heavy loads as the other.
 It is simply impossible to oyer-esti- mate the agency of steam in the work of developing this state and section. The work Is but well begun, however, and the next fifty years will bring in greater changes ana greater develop ments than have the past fifty years. In all the story of the country no agency of man has played a greate: part than that of steam, and its fu- ture is full of promise. The line be- tween Tuscumbia and Decatur has been reinforced until every county in the state, Choctaw alone excepted, Is knit together by connecting rail lines. And even Choctaw has locomotives on It's logging railroads, and Is within easy distances of trunk lines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21

constitutional, and that is now imper- atiye on account of his logical, compre- hensive and humane opinion.
 If costs are not debts, what are they? They are not penalties imposed by the criminal laws, and no matter what statutes have been passed or de- cisions rendered covering costs, they look like debts. They may be semi public debts, but if they were wholly public debts they would still come un- der the ban of the provision quoted from the constitution of 1901. No person shall be imprisoned for debt . This is a wise and humane provision, one strictly in accordance with modern progress and modern thought and mod ern humanity. Imprisonment for debt is now considered barbaric, and yet it is an every day occurrence in nearly every southern state, if costs in petty criminal cases are debts. It is, at any rate, high time 1t was ascertained definitely how much of the capers of the fee brigade is covered by the non imprisonment item in the bill of rights adopted in 1901, and how much is not so covered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21
MYSTERY OF WILD ANIMALS.
What Becomes of Those That Die Nat
 ural Death in the Woodsf

From the New York Sun.
 "The forest has many mysteries" said
 ,'.irania woodman, "but none deeper than that of wild animals that die natural deaths"
 "The four footed dwellers of the woods certainly do not live forever. Age and disease must carry them off regularly, as human beings are carried off, but what becomes of their bodies?
 'I never heard of any ones coming across a wild dead bear or deer or wild cat or fox that had died from natural causes. l found the carcass of a big five-pronged buck in the woods once, but a rattlesnake. also dead, had it's fangs buried in one of the deer's nos- trils. There had evidently been fight to the death between the reptile and the beast.
 Another time I followed the trail of bear from a clearing where 1t had stolen a half-grown lamb. I came upon the headless body of the lamb a mile or so out on the trail. and half mile further on, near the edge of swamp, I was surprised to find the body of the bear.
 Its jaws were open, and its glassy eyes were pushed far out of It's head. l held a postmortem examination of the dead bear and found the lambs head lodged in it's throat How why the bear ever permitted it to get there I am unable to explain.
 q have many times found other dead animals in the woods but never one that did not show unquestionable evidence of having died from violence of some kind. Every woodsman will tell you the same. What becomes of the dead wild animals that die natural deaths?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21
Catholic University.

'The Catholic University of America in Washington graduated more candidates this year than ever before, the number being forty" remarked a Washington man. This university is unique from the fact that it is the only institution in the world which confers degrees on post graduates only. This was brought out in the baccalaureate sermon of Rev. Dr. c. J. Lucas of Scanton. Pa, who took oc- casion to discuss the mission of the uni- versity, the reconciliation of science and religion and the scope of the instituton's work in the future.
 "Dr. Lucas spoke of the interest of the Pope in the institution and called atten- ion to the fact that the pontiff had issued directions that no other Catholic uni- verslty be planned or established in the United tSates without his permission. The Vatican looks upon the university as national institution, constituting the capstone of the Catholic educational sys- tenn in this colnty. Among the candidates for degrees were students from many na- tions Greece and Turkey among them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21
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hoped that the new establishment. inas- much as 1t will be conducted by an Amer lean, will show these restaurants the error of their ways. For instance they regale the Briton with muffins and tea scenes, Scotch shortbread and pound cake. If he asks for a sausage they hand 1t out en. cased In dough. One or two of these London American quick lunch" eating places advertises such culinary traves. ties as ''poached eggs on buckwheai cakes" and in addition demands prices that no experienced ''quickluncher" would pay in this country.
 Attention has been called to the rapidly decreasing percentage of native born sea- men in the American and English navies This condition seems to have been brought about since the displacement of sails by steam as a motive power. In the British navy there are 40000 foreign seamen and anyone who has been on board an Ameri- of Swedes, Danes and other natives of foreign lands who are in the service.
 SOCIAL diplomacy IS now playing an im- portant part in business. Many women with soft voices and that wonderful &C., complishment called tact are earning sub- stantial incomes by the ability with which they can make prospective buyers feel at home. In the famous beauty par lors of the metropolis elegantly gowned women receive the visitors with all the polished courtesies of the drawing room. They are made to feel as If their call were far removed from mercenary con- alterations. In the millinery parlors and other places frequented by the wealthy classes these skillful women play an lm- portant part in building up a stylish clientele. Good looks. a costly gown and properly modulated voice are. potent factors. When the ladies come in to make their purchases strikingly handsome young woman receives them gracefully, conducts them about the establishment and entertains them with bits of inforn,a- tion about the styles in laces or what the smart people are wearing In the matter of gowns. When the buying stage has ar- rived the attendant pleasantly bows her. self away to greet newcomers and 6 clerk makes the sale.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21
NED BRACE TALKS AZ OUT RAILROAD RATES
 AND OTHER MATTERS OF LOCAL CONCERN

cials, but Alabama deserves 1t. and rates should be adjusted at once.
 would not advocate a rampant re- duction. But Alabama is entitled to a better basis on general products. and the railroads will make a mistake unless they offer to the present railroad commission of Alabama a generous compromise be- tween the present and the prayed rate.
 <
 Birmingham and its prosperity is. in a measure. at the present moment, upon the crater of volcano. It faces an horizon of either brilliancy or blackness. It Is within the power of two organizations to continue an era of building and busi- ness or to envelope us In a cloud of black ness.
 refer to the United Mine Workers and to the Operators Association
 I know not what the demands of the mine workers will be, nor do know what the owners of the mines and furnaces want. I do know, however, that every laborer is worthy of his reward and that every investor is likewise due a dividend.
 The miner has been prosperous and the investor has made money upon his money I believe in a division of earnings but I do not believe in arrogance upon either side.
 There are dire predictions of a strike in the Birmingham district Of what use can such be to either side? As I under stand it. the employee has been prosper ous and the employer has been likewise so. It strikes me- without full knowl- edge, however, of conditions, that 1t would be well to let we'll enough alone If we are making money. let us go ahead and continue making 1t.
 Our conditions here may be different from those in other sections The Penn sylvania rule might not apply, possibly, in the Birmingham region. Let the miner and the operator do that which is best for this district. But under no clrcum- stances should hot heads on either side lead the conservative element to any ces- sation of production for even one day.
 Why not do like the publishers of the Birmingham newspapers and the prin- ters' union have done-sgn a scale of wages Co operate in perpetuity so to speak, unless one or the other gives no- tice 60 days in advance that they desire to make a change in the same.
 This annual upseting of business in tha
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21
Smoke Consumers,

Tt is a wonder to me that some one does not agitate the question of smoke consumers for Birmingham" said a gen. tleman from the east.
 For a town of it's size the amount of soot and smoke that circulates in the air Is remarkable. The modern smoke con- sumers are not very expensive and save a great deal of useful gas that now goes to waste. In addition the relief they would bring to residents of the city would be no doubt very welcome. The smoke and dirt of Birmingham prevent many people from making their homes here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
The Book Trade.

This seems to be an off year for the popular novel," said bookseller yester- day. "A number of books have att tained moderate degree of success. but we do not hear of the phenomenal sales that were so much heraided abroad last year and the year before. Probably one of the most popular works of fiction and the most widely known which has ap- peared recently Is Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch This book has come near to attaining the popularity of the old favorites. such as Eben Holden,
 David Harem' and others. Maybe the novels of this year are not so widely ad- vertised as the others. but there Is a noticeable absence of the staggering fig ures that greeted our eyes in every maga- zine and paper a year or two ago telling of enormous royalties, numerous edi- tions, heavy sales and the other features of popular novel of the day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21
MORE BEAUTY DoN'Ts.
Hot Weather Trulsms We'll to Remem-
 ber.

From the Washington Star.
 Don't be afraid of sunshine. Curative powers are in the chemical rays of the sun, and they rejuvenate.
 Don't think of the complexion only and fear tan and freckles they can be re- moved. The sun Is one of the most effi- cient of all surgical methods in the treat ment of morbid growths, as warts, moles and all parasitical skin diseases.
 Don't use borax and rose water to re- move tan and freckles without putting on a I.tle cold cream afterwards, for borax makes the skin dry.
 Don't use soap on the face oftener than once a day. Night is the best time for thorough cleaning.
 Don't use cold water when giving the face a cosmetic scrub. Warm water. followed by a dash of cold water, Is better.
 Don't try to put cold cream on a cold skin, or the absorption will not be thor ough.
 Don't desplse the humble lemon.- With the juice of lemon and the beaten white of an egg milady, brush in hand. may touch up her freckies in the seclusion of her bouroir, and no one be the wiser.
 Don't forget that vinegar will eradicate yellow stains from the face. Bathe the bruise at once with vinegar and discolora- tion will be prevented
 Don't have a shiny nose and forehead, because 1t Is warm weather. Use little cologne or spirits of can1phor in the water when bathing the face.
 Don't wash your face In cold water the moment you reach a washstand if you have been travelling. Remove traces of dust and smoke with cold cream, and wipe off with a soft towel.
 Don't be afraid of the face brush or glove. Friction arouses the circulation and restores tone and color to the skin.
 Don't expect to cure an eruption on the face by external applications only. A hot foot bath, containing washing soda, will often cure this trouble.
 Don't be afraid of using little rice powder on the face. neck and arms If troubled with prickly heat
 Don't use alcohol on the face unless the the skin IS oily.
 Don't use tincture of benzoin on the face unless the skin is dry. It is detri- mental to an oily one. This is an instance of preparation excellent in itself, but not suited to every complexion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21
Size of American Families.

MT. Roosevelt's denunciations of race suicide seem to find support in census figures. A shrinkage in the size of families in nearly all parts of the country is pretty well established. the exceptions being few and far be- tween. In South Dakota families are larger than they were twenty years ago, but twenty years ago there were not many families in South Dakota. In the South Atlantic states families have decreased from 5.2 in 1880 to in 1900. The average decrease in other states is double that of the South Atlantic states. If this is to go on from decade to decade, race suicide would indeed be inaugurated. In twenty years families In the entire country have been decreased three tenths of a person. A century of such a tendency would put us in line with France, country which has q stationary population.
 A writer in the North American com bats, however, MT. Rooseyelts "socio- logical heresies," and in doing so he displays his own selfishness. He pleads first for the mothers of the land, who, under the Rooseyeltian theory, became old and worn when 30 years old, where as now at the age of 45 they preserve the bloom and beauty of youth. No woman's voice, says the writer in the North American Review, is raised in favor of the Presidents views.
 But this particular sociologlst is not studying the comfort of others alto gether, for he proceeds to explain that If he had himself more than four chil- dren he would have to give up his so- rial position and present style of liv- Ing. each of which is very dear to him. The addition of two children to his family would mean that present rela- tions with his friends would have to be severed. In other words, he pre- fers ease and luxury to the giving of s'pledges to posterity." Social posi- tion outranks in his mind the welfare of race and country.
 All in all, the President, who has but four children, is not in good position to demand from others the raising of families of patriarchial proportions. He does not practice what he breaches. He has not multiplied and replenished the earth to any great exteht--in fact, he has just about reached the general average, where he halts. The North American Review writer displays his own selfshness, and the President Is not shining light, high example, to the people whom he presides over. Altogether these leaders are not well fitted to advise the people either way in a matter which each one will decide without any reference whatever to outside advice.