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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

As result of Sir Ernest Cassels gift
to the government, Egypt is to have Il
travelling hospital for the benefit of
sufferers from ophthalmia who are un-
able to use the hospitals already jim eX-
istence. The experimental dispensary
is to visit country districts where the
disease prevails. If its work is sue
cessful, the number of dispensaries
will be increased. Sanitary campaign
ing against disease seems to be maxi
ing progress along with military cam
palgning against public enemies.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

NiSS <N-'-'iH o. irNh' is possible that
when the measurements made by Miss
Peaks expedition are received man
will be known to have reached the
highest point in the world. and the
honor of having accomplished this will
be woman's.
Miss Peck, who is well known as
mountain climber and is known social
ly in Chicago and other large cities of
the country, was accompanied on the
"trip by President w. A. G.. Tight Of
the University of New Mexico and
three guides, one of whom is Antoine
MaQuiguaz, who guided Sir Martin
Conway, the noted English explorer.
when he attempted and failed to do
what Miss Peck has accomplished.
The ascent of Mount Sorata crowns
a remarkable career of mountain
climbing by woman who in a few
years has assembled the highest peaks
of Europe and America, including
Mount 0rizaba in Mexico, which is
1S.6o0 feet high, and. next to Mount
Mckinley, is the highest peak in North
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

With all the ingenuity of the invent
ors, we have not yet got to the labor
less age, even If we have wireless te-
legraphy and horseless carriages. But
putting in coal in New York has come
so near to being laborless that 1t leaves
little to be desired. This is the way
1t is done, according to one of the
newspapers: "One of the new horse
less coal carts, carrying load that
would stagger three horses, stopped in
front of n Park Row skyscraper the
other day. The coal man touched Il
lever, and the big machine wheeled
out into the street and backed up TO
the curb as easily as runabout. Then
he touched another lever, and the body
of the wagon tilted up to the proper
angle. He touched another piece Of
mechanism, and chute was lowered
TO the coal hole. He touched something
else and the coal began to shoot down
the chute. When u was all In the
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

A writer in the New York Press
asks why tennis players always wear
trousers turned up from two to four
inches at the bottom. He evidently
never sent a pair of flannel trousers to
the laundry and had them come back
as knickerbockers. For shrinking mod
esty the stuff of which tennis clothes
is made cannot be equaled.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

Whatever is to be said for or against
automobile races, they are infinitely
TO be preferred to the long-distance
military races held in European coun-
tries-recently in France-the usual re-
suit Of which is that one or more
horses drop dead under their riders.
The limits of the endurance of horse
flesh are so well known that there is
no excuse for torture of this kind.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

mlnion of Canada, yet Its nauVu
guard has an enrolment OF OBJ!
46S men. Canada, on the other nas .
has $4,000 men in Its active miu. NV
and thousands of others who. :.
gone through militia training anu >
now on the retired list.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

Carnegie's union of the two great
English-speaking nations provides for
the annexing of this country. Wouldn't
that be good deal like fastening the
dog to the tail?
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

The author of book on how to
reach a ripe old age died on an ocean
steamer the other day at the ripe old
age of 90. There is no better rule eX-
tant for attaining advanced years than
the one grandpa used to give, viz, to
keep right on living.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

op expense of your body rheumatism attacks your
joints Alcohol preys your vitality. Hereditary de-
you the penalty brought on by the ex
cesses Of your grandparents You only half master OF
your vigor your health and life One and ALL young
and old will taken off by disease before their hfes
full In the meantime scientists and doctors
will pursue their investigations and make successive ds
coveries way the tuberculosis question has almost
solved the turn of cancer Will come And
so on But none will live to the complete over
throw mysterious agents which undermine our VI
taty Perhaps not immediate posterty Will see
this triumph
indeed the generation possessing the secret
will then longer fear death Instead he will long
for death of his allotted days we long for
sleep the close of long day Dying he will refuse to
live refuse nourshment when satated or to
walk when tired The hundred hundred and tWen-
ty hundred and thirty years he has lived will have full
filed his desire to live
But if that generation is fortunate what shall we say
of those generations which do not the secret?
Those who that effort is being made to solve the
enigma which is continually euding them-from where
will they derive to sustain them in life and death!
Yet there who find sufficient consolation in the
possibilities stored in the future They are so greatly
interested in the welfare of humanity at large that the
sanguine predictions of scientists actual comfort to
Them and they rejoice in the glorious promises held out
to their descendants
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

Edison has been experimenting with
radium as cure, and says his stom-
ach has been injured. He could have
got the same results with welsh rare
bit at much less cost.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06
The Military spirit n C.,

Figures have just been puhlishod
winch the Canadian press claims as an
indication of the military spirit which
animates young Canada. The state
OF New York has population of near.
" 2'oooOoo more than the entire Do.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

A Japanese author has just complet-
ed novel that runs into ninety vol
umes. That's the length the sermon
seems to the small boy as it draws
towards dinner time.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

The dancing professors are in favor
of greater dignity. But it isn't dignity
that the lady thinks of when an awk-
ward man steps ON her train.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

Kaiser Wilhelm has purchased the
estate and castle of Demm-Muehle.
Evidently the man who named that
castle has worked with the Missouri
variety Of draft animal.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

1t Is reported that the dwellers in
the Island Of Papua are gradually los
ing the use of their legs. Perhaps this
is a rest cure retreat for the American
telegraph boy.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

There is always somebody to take
the place Of loop the loop" acrobat
that goes out of business. The job of
fool-killer is no sinecure these days
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

America, Mount Mckinley being &c. GOO
rect Miss Peck is graduate of the
University of Michigan and formerly
was professor of Latin at Smith Col.
lege. WI
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

1t was bad enough that the Hum
berts should be sentenced to five years
solitary confinement-but that 100
francs fine was terrible.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

Mae MacLane's new book tells how
to run a universe without the friction
which seems to obtain in the present
macrOcOsm.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

1t appears sort of foolish for England
to make her immigration laws harsher.
That is not where the bulk of the peo-
pie go when they want to better them
selves
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06
Lord Chief Justice
TlUerStone

Nerstone Chief Justice OF the de
% tne commission to demi boundary line Alaska
ofth America John W. Foster prepared for the
oh.eu states was Secretary under Preside
he generally regarded the preatest authorities ~
"oru on International law
sn "hich settled the Behrng seal fisheries dispue
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

A Profit from Garbage. n
The borough of Fulham, Lonoo- .
the use of its garbage in the lu.I a,.a
Of the municipal electric lightinST
makes a profit of 83.4&2 q ysah
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

May Goelet is at last to be duch
ess. After this May will regard HEAVIER
as mere annex.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06
HEROES AND HEROINEs IN HUMBLE LIFE.
BY z. D. Sherm,,

c.,-., -. ny Z. D. 5hermm
Carlyle in his essay on heroes seems to reraa
power and its exercise as the chief requisite, 4
herosm, and to ignore or minimize motives and
moral qualities. Emerson uses the words how
heroic and heroism in broader and more nNn,
sophical sense. Happily, he was free from nrsr
dice, intensity and narrowness. He was M
priest of the universal and in his calm min.
passOned thought he forgot the temnoral ,Da
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

Success rules are like nails-they
must be driven into something or they
will soon rust.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

the anttoxin" of the disease The germs multiplying in
the fluid of the blood have given rise this
substance When the latter is inocuated into child
ferng from dphthera the little patient The anti
toxin acts the microbes causing fell disorder pro-
duces reaction in the child with the result that the disease
is checked and recovery made possible
1t is the application of this principle to tubercu-
oss which forms the subject of Professor Behring's
searches Dr. Koch, at the great held in 1901
maintained that tuberculosis in the different
disease from that found in On this belief founded
his declaration that the milk Of tuberculous cow laden
with germs, could not produce the disease n saw child
fed the milk. Needless to say this dctum was dis
puted and it fairly well ascerained that the dis
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

Dillon we might appreciate them bet
ter.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06
ASSENDS THE HIGHEST PEAK.
Miss Peck Perform ms Remarkable Feat
in South America.

Aided by oxygen carried in cans and
other carefully selected helps to the
modern mountain climber, a woman
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

Miss Annie S.
Peck of Chicago
has attained the
highest altitude
ever rea ched by
man. She has ac-
complished the
feat of ascending
Mount Sorata, in
Bolivia, W h os e
height is estimat-
ed from 21,000 to
25,O00 feet, and is
exceeded only by
the unconquered
peaks of the Him
alayas.
Some scientists
believe Sorata to
be even higher
than the Hima-
laya peaks, and it
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06

coal man climbed up. on his seat, gave
a ring to the gong, and the big machine
ratified down Park Row."
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06
FIGHTING DISEASE WITH ITS OWN WEAPONS.
BY ANDREW Wilson.

Much has been done of late years in science to
attack disease with its weapons. My read
ers may not know what is meant by the serum"
treatment. 1t represents the attempt Of science
to hoist microbes with their petard.
horse is noculated with the microbes of diphthe
ria. The animal remains strong and well under
this treatment Then in blood drawn from it we
find developed in course of time what we call
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-11-06
DEATH FROM OLD AGE IN FUTURE GENERATIONS.
BY Marcel PreYoSf.

Modern science says to man: You stand IN
dread of your own death, and rebel against the
thought of it. You are right! Your death VIII III
all proba biity be the result of accident. Some
thing not in accord with your nature some as
ease which you perhaps are even now nourlshihg
in your system will take you off ere you are
aware The water you drink is full of destruct-
i've germs which are going to multiply and devel-
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-06-27
THE BUSINESS OF DEMO-
CRA rs

While Democratic Journals
may very properly advocate
either the convention or pri
mary method of selecting the
next Democratic ticket, we fai
to see why Republican newspa
pers should NEEDLE in this thing,
1t is clearly none of their bust.
ness. 1t is matter to be de.
cided by the Democratic party
through it's accredited represent
tatives. The movement for a di-
rect primary, which is being
supported by a number of Dem
ocratic papers, will be weakened
by the Officious intermeddline of
Republican journals, accompa-
MED by vicious attacks upon
the Democratic administration.
There are many Democrats who
will do their utmost to cause the
the adoption of the primary
method of nomination, but these
Democrats will refuse to join the
enemies of their party in cam
paign of vituperation and misre-
If there is any,
thing that will kill the primary
as dead as a door-nail
1T is the attempt OF Republicans
and political nondescripts to cast
dlscredlt upon Democratic adj
ministratiOns. If there are 90
ing to be any changes in the
mode of nominating candidates
those changes must be brought
about by Democrats, who must
make their fight within the
'anks of the party. Republicans
should exercise their energies to
out the croOkedness in
heir own party, both State and
latiOnal. If reforms are needed
n the affairs of the Democratic
'arty, it will have to be attended ,
o by Democrats, and by Demo
rats only.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-06-27
7I/k DELAH.1RE YNCHLA-C.

| Z/E DELdW.fRE LINCk/N-C.
The Northern people who are
greatly exercised because the
negro is denied his alleged DO
lltlcal rights in the South, now
have an opportunity to sympa
thlze with the colOred brother a,
shorter range. President Roose
welt and the other epublican
leaders who grow grandiloquent
on the subject of negro suffrage
and who pirate of their love for
the oppressed African race, will
no longer have to look to Louis
lana and Mississippi for "South-
ern outrages,' for these things.
which were at one time peculiar
to the South, are taking place in
the North with singular fire.
quency. So common have ne
gro lynchings become in the
Northern States that they have
ceased to be regarded as a sec
tlonal question. In Kansas, Hi
nois, Ohio, Indiana, Colorado.
New York negroes were put to
death by mObs in the same man.
ner that characterized lynchinrs
at the South. And in nearly
every case the cause of the sum-
mary executions has been the
same that has made Southern
white men take the law into their
own hands.
Only few days ago in the
peaceful little State of Della
ware, near the city of VVilminc-
Jon, black brute was taken out
II Jail and burned at the stake
N the presence of 1000 people
men, women and children. A
'ure, lovely girl, the daughter of
minister of the gospel, was
he victim of this Negroes lust.
after being subjected to fiendish
orture the helpless girl was
llled by her ravisher. 1t is well
hat death kindly claimed her,
Or, under such stain, no true {
7Oman cares to live:
The Delaware lynching proves
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-06-27
KOllOl Gives Strenutb

by enabling the digestive organs
TO digest, assimilate and trans
form all Of the wholesome food
that may be eater into the kind
OF blood that nourishes the
nerves, feeds the tissues, har-
dens the muscles and recuper-
ates the organs of the entire
body. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
cures Indigestion, Dyspepsia,
Catarrh Of the Stomach and ali
stomach disorders. Sold by La
fayette Drug Co.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-06-27
For Sale :!

: 5-room residence in Mills addition, 10
OoNI4O, on Corner
Lots in Alex Mou,on addition
improved property in Kennedy and Vor
denbaumen additions
Lots in Mouton addition 6o>Ioo
4 lots in Girard addition cheap
Lots 5oNIoo improved, in Mills addition
|. n new room residence on lot 5oxIio
a groom residence with a complete
| blacksmith shop on lot 5oxI4o
lots facing railroad track near Sunset
! hotel, at bargain
| The Falk brickyard at a bargain
Two lots in McComb addition with resi-
i dence, 200 feet from railroad depot
IIS -arPent plantation near Carencro
7o-arPcht plantation on railroad track
near Duchamp station, St Martin parish
oo-alPent farm near Carencro
S. arpent farm near Carencro
c5-arpents of wood land, y, miles from
Anse Labut,e.
Lot 100 feet square with large residence,
near depot.
Large I5room hotel on Sox14o feet of
ground.
; lots in Mudd addition
5 lots in Mudd addition.
Store building now doing business, 4oxSo
Lot in Mills addition I,5xI4o, CHEAP with
improvements.
\ bargain, I lot 4ox4o with cabin, near
Jail.
a nice room residence block from
railroad depot.
Two nice Groom cottages on Lincoln Ave
nue.. 5 blocks from :. = depot cheap
For Sale One half interest in Falk's
brickyard.
One 4 horse power center crank engine.
One I2-horse power Cenicr-crank engine.
acres of land with residence and other
Improvements. near Peoples Cotton Oil Mill
Large two-story residence near S. =.
depot, Lafayette.
Lots in Mills addition.
Large lot and improvements in Mudd add |
Lots in Mouton addition.
225 arpents of land between Lafayette
and Scott.
II arpcnts of land half mile northeast of
town. Will sell any portion.
so arpents of wood land miles from
Carencro.
so arpents of wood land near Anse La
butte.
1000 acres of pine land.
10 acres of land in Vinton. Calcasicu
parish.
LOIS in Ninon, Calcascu parish
Lots IN Kennedy addition with improve
nents.
inc two-story residence. Will sell any por-
ion of it.
Twenty arpents wood land q mile from
\. NJ Martin oil we'll.
\ firm of 81 arpents. arpents of wood
and, near town of Lafayette. Cheap
Seventy one arPents OF farm land :. mile
rom town of Lafayette, 9 arpents wood
md. At a bargain.
F"rty-,wo arpen,> OF land near town.
Butcher g. Vo0rhies,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
LAFAYETTE, LA.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-06-27
THE |RHER..S
ONL \
GRAFT

1t is crying shame that some
one at Washington recommends
the Discrimination of the free
distribution of seed to the farm
ers. The New Orleans States
enters a solemn protest against
this injustice to tillers of the
soil. The States well says:
In these days when political
grafters of the Republican party
are plundering the government
in nearly all its departments it is
rather queer that an anonymous
circular should be sent out from
Washington protesting against
the distribution of 100000
worth of free seeds by the De-
partment of Agriculture. This
is the only graft on the govern
ment that the poor farmer en-
joys and in it he is buncoed more
than half the time. because the |
seeds sent him, have, as a rule, |
the habit of not sprouting and
when they do sprout it very
AoSA Ulle farmer IS
astonished by the discovery that
instead OF getting a crop of rare
hay he has several acres of pinks,
Jonqulns, geraniums and other
garden flowers on his hands
which the cattle refuse to eat.
Inc farmer gets none of the pro-
tectlve tariff swag which is fat
tening the indus trial combines,
but under the protective system
IS forced to sell in a cheap and ,
BUY IN a dear market. The only {
favor he gets from the govern Y
ment is free seed, and it will be =
very mean man indeed that will E
attempt to deprive him of his t
little graft. At the same time it
IS quite easy to understand why I,
the dealers in seeds throughout q
5he country are not unanimous 7
n favor OF the free distribution F
II 1OO, 200, 900 packages of seeds O.
very year. But their protests l.
Will be in vain. The farmers A
raft will stand. because he has y
o get something for cheerfullv h
landing up and permitting the r
industries to go tc
through his pockets. - b.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-06-27
ABOUT PEUBEN.C

1t appears that New Orleans
has been buncoed into giving va
liable privileges to railroad
which had agreed to run into
that city. Now that the deal
has been cOnSum mated the man.
ager OF the projected railway an
nOunces that no road will be
built, but that another line al
ready constructed will be used.
Municipalities should not be too
eager to give away valuable
franchises without taking every
precaution to protect it's inter-
ests. In New Orleans the road
was given everything that it
wanted and the Supreme Court
established the legality of the
transaction.
The manner in which New Or
leans was taken in" is a source
of some amusement to Col.
Jones who is congratulatine
Baton Rouge for having kept out
Of the trap into which New Or
eans so easily fell. What The
says concerning the
ororeness of the city man to
GUY gold bricks is very true.
Seubens do not have to come to
own. They are often born and
bred there. Col. Jones saws
m this subject:
The whole world knows the
Inference between the country
ceube and the city Gent. One
las hay seed in his hair and
:nOWs but little of the wiles and
Ways of the wicked world: the
ther is up to snuff and KNOWS
GOD milk from water and chalk -
is true the governors and
and great judges, as
ule, come from the rural dis
nets, but the average city man
'Oks upon the country clod-
Opper as a sort of human para
Ok with sense enough to keep
1T of the rain and occasionally a
lriety of knowledge rudely
athered together and awk-
ardly appropriated in the
orld's fierce battle of life. It =
a misfortune to be born with l.
t the shadow of a great CITY,
pecially when it is a metropo-
an city and the center of
'rnlng and refinement. And +,
t these Reubes frequently U
scover things their city
others never heard of and -
ey often avoid pitfalls that T.
cir more fortunate and more ~
[ightened cousins are prone to
into and get disfigured.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-06-27

one thing. No matter where
the negro will commit this mos
horrible of crimes he will NEE,
the same fate. Whether in the
North or in the South, he for
feits his life and has no more
claim upon society than the vilest
reptile that creeps the earth.
| \ judicial ..Ean.''
Crowley Signal.
Il want to hear Blanchard's
Fourth of July Grafton, and I
also confess that the base ball
contest between Lafayette and
Crowley will not be without at
fractions to me-" declares Judge
DebaillOn.
MY boys, who discourse
learnedly of the larceny of bases,
which they loosely describe
as Steals, and of the umpire
handing down decisions when
as matter of fact, as 1 under
stand it, he is not a court of ap-
peal but has original jurisdic-
ton, and therefore accurately
speaking does not hand down
his decisiOns-my boys declare
that the Lafayette team is what
is technically known as a
crackerjack. From the same
[ gather that the |
Crowley team is entitled to the
of an aggregation of
warm mem bers,' and that if
talent can be secured
to wear the base ball ermine, in
the person of some individual
in the lore of base ball
and statutory provi-
sion, the contest will be, again
20 quote the Technology of the
game, hot stuff [ therefore
propose to get into court early
md secure a seat close to the {
stand where [ can take
n all the fine points of the cross
KAN ina tiOnS.'