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The daily sentinel., 1908-08-27
OVER $4,000 FOR
DEMOCRATIC FUND
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+ Chicago, Aug. 27.-What was :
r announced as the first official
r statement of contributions in =
+ the present campaign was made :
+ today by Treasurer Haskell or =
+ the democratic national COM
+ mittee.
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The statement deals with funds
turned in by several daily newspa-
pers and the Commoner. their contrl-
buttons reaching total of $19,43S.
Moses c. Whetmore of the finance
committee said that other papers
which had set marks as high as So
600 for their offerings would be
heard from later when their goals
had been attained.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-27
A SOUTHERN CITY IS SUBMERGED

FROM
1osrA STE o
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-27

O. w. Jarvis of FIT. Duchesne is a
Grand Junction visitor today
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-27

II. II. Rocham of Davenport, iowa,
came in on No. 3 yesterday.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-27

]. H. Chase and wife are new ar
rivals from Ridgway, Colo.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-27

Continued on page A.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

What an extent this fishery can also
DE expanded. Here also the element of
safety Is greatly in favor of the in
dustry on the Pacific coast. At present
IN a small way, both halibut and cod
are shipped clear across the continept
TO Boston and New York. With better
ana cheaper facilities the markets Of
the United States will soon be onenipo
up to the Pacific.
The salmon fishing Is now wboun
dohe Tor canning and in small wav
salted' The extent to which this nart
OF the Industry has grown is moro fo-
millar to the world than anv otbor
During the last few years the fresh
nsh industry has made inroads even On
the cannery supply and mild cured sal.
mon is now being shipped all the w,v
to Germany for smoking. During rho
last winter buyers from German
houses In Hamburg have appeared IN
Alaska towns and eagerly taken all tho
product they could secure. This is hrt
beginning, and development in time
In the way of improved means of trons.
portation will extend the SHINING ~
salmon fresh from the waters of
Alaska to all parts of the world
cifc Coast Monthly.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

woman is the first to enter the train
at the beginning of the trip. They will
resort to ruse or diplomacy to avert
such an invitation of accident. They
Will stop a woman with slow inquiries
about her ticket or destination in order
that masculine foot will be the first
TO ascend the steps IT is also consid
cred bad luck for the train to permit
cripple or a hunchback to enter first
A one-armed man among passengers
upon a train is also viewed with sus.
plcion as an omen of accident.
Sometimes careless fireman will let
the engine bell toll. Such an untoward
accident means that some member of
the engineers family will soon die. Old
time engineers will not count the num-
Der OF cars In train as 1t rounds q
curve. 1t Is considered bad luck.
AS would naturally be expected from
the wide prevalence of the number 2
superstition, 1t occupies an important
place among railroad mems omens. It
Is the firm conviction of almost all
railroad men that when one man is
killed or injured in railroad work two
other fatalities or accidents will follow
In rapid succession. 1t is considered
unlucky, before two or three days have
elapsed, for railroad man to take the
place of another who has been killed
In an accident.
Engineers see an omen of death upon
the trip If the headlight of their en-
CINE accidentally goes out as the en-
glne Is leaving the roundhouse.
A left-handed engineer is viewed as
hoodoo by many trainmen. 1t Is be-
lleved his presence in the cab invites
disaster, and old-time fremen and
Drakemen seek transfer to other trains
as soon as left-handed engineer is mt
on their run.
Trainmen dislike the presence of n
corpse In the baggage or express cars.
Just as sailors object to CARRYING q
corpse on board ship. But it is consid-
cred particularly threatening to load
the coffin on a train with the feet of
the dead person toward the engine. Tn
recent wreck in North Carolina n
corpse was almost incinerated and
many persons were killed. 1t Is the
firm belief of trainmen on the South
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

There cannot be a near woman in
fact, but Imagination draws the pic
ture of one for US now and then when
a scientist or philosopher undertakes
to tell woman what will happen If
she keeps doing things said to have
. been unknown to her grandmother. A
woman is always a woman, although
she may not choose to hew to the line
fixed by ancient custom. All men are
men, even though some of them may
be called mollycoddles. Women are
taking away mems jobs, and it is said
by observers that they are going to
keep doing so and enlarge their hold
ings In that line. The president Of
Bryn Mawr college for women says
that women "are steadily taking pos
session and driving men before them,"
and. furthermore, they Twill be COM
PEELED Dy economic causes beyond their
control to stay in them after mar
riage." Our grandmothers In their red
checked days MIXED the COWS, and no
one would have dared to hint that a
milkmaid was unwOmanly because Of
her skill. They husked corn, too, and
when the good man was away fed the
stock. American women have always
taken up mans work from time to
time and put it aside when the need
was over. If for economic reasons
they are better at typewriting, tele-
phoning, telegraphing and bookkeep-
Ing than men, they are none the less
true women when they do this work.
Professor Ross gives the most star
ting picture Of the near woman wher
he dips into the future and sees whal
Industrial occupations will do for wom-
en-. He says there will be a rever-
sion to the type of masculine women,
squat, fiat chested, broad backed, low
browed creatures, working in the
fields and factories side by side with
men," We shall be compelled to admit
that such creatures" would be near
women" according to our modern
ideals. On the other hand, President
Elliott says, "The higher education
ought to fit women for the single oc-
cupation Of bearing and educating chill
dren, and it is the most intellectual
occupation In the world" SO the true
woman. has chance to remain herself
in spite Of the education which makes
her mans dangerous competitor. Per-
haps the industrial woman of Pro-
fessor Ross and Of the president of
Bryn Mawr will emulate the educated
woman In the matter of attention
sometimes to the bearing and educat-
Ing of children. In that case the jewel
Of womanhood need not depart from
women who work, and the talked of
"reversion to the type Of masculine
women Is only bogy.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

Perhaps the most superstitious class
or people in the United States are the
otherwise hard-headed, keen-witted
railroad men. They ara fatallsts by
circumstances Of life of constant dan
ger Death is a commonplace; acci.
dent and injury all Ia the days work
and line Of duty Contempt of death,
akin to that Of the fanatic Mussulman,
but without the allurement of the
black-eyed houri paradise, is bred by
familiarity, the never-ending risk Of
life and limb, as told In the grim sta
tistics of railroad fatalities. Many
bloody campaigns Of great wars show
rewer casualties than the annual death
ana accident report of the Interstate
commerce Commission. This makes
life cheap and its risk and sacrifice
for so much per diem an incident. The
railroad man lives in an atmosphere of
the fatal chance and nerve-teasing un-
certainty. Death may be speeding to-
ward him and around the curve ahead .
the next pounding of the massive driy
ers may strike n broken rail: the
tower signal man makes his awful er-
rors in an almost unvarying average ::
the landslide and the tampered switch
are entirely beyond provision. And 1t
Is this dominancy of chance, Of the un-
prevised, the unexpected, the unfore
seen, utterly battling human ingenuity.
that makes the average railroad man
as Superstitiously fatahstlc as a whirl-
ing dervish or warrior of the Mad
Mullah.
This environment of the fatal
chance, emphasizing human futility and
powerlessness, creates a rich soil for
omen, charm and fetch, and few rail-
road men can be found who are not in
oculated with the virus of protecting
superstition. Press them closely, and
seven out Of ten will confess 1t in a
half shame-faced, half defiant way.
For instance, 1t is considered most
unlucky among engineers to take an
engine out for its first run Friday or
on that fatal day to put the finishing
touches to 1t in the shop.
Trainmen, particularly brakemen of
the old school, believe it is bad luck II
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

The statue Of Gen. Francis Il. Spin
ner, made under the direction Of an as
ISOLATION Of women employees of the
government, Is to be erected opposite
the Spinner home in Herkimer, New
York. General Spinner was treasurer
Of the United States from 1861 to 1875,
and when the clerks of the Treasury
Department resigned, during the Civil
War. to enlist In the army, he recon-
mended that their places be filed by
women. He carried his point against
considerable opposition, and thus
opened the door to self-support for
many women. He was notable also ms
the inventor Of peculiar signature
which appeared on all the national pa.
per currency, and was the butt of the
newspaper humorsts for years. But
he will be remembered longest as the
man who called on the women to take
the places left vacant by the men who
went to the front to fight.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25
COAST ABoUNDs IN FISH.
Pacific Region VIII in Time Supply
the Whole Country

Pacific Region VIII in Time Supply
the Whole Country.
The extensive coast line of the terri
tory seems everywhere abundant with
halibut, which has become almost a
luxury In the East. There the fishing
Is done at great hazard and at long
distances from markets, while In Alas
ka the fisherman leaves his home in
the morning and returns in the even
Ing with the fruits of his labor.
A little off the coast of Alaska and
In many places among the numerous
Islands along the shores there exists
great cod banks. These are little
known and while they are now fished
to some extent 1t might be said the in
dustry is wholly in its infancy. When
we consider the enormous extent of
these banks as compared with those off
the New England coast and the very
few fish now taken on them as COM
pared with the large numbers taken on
the Atlantic 1t can readily be seen to
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

emperor, have taught the same prin-
ciples Of citizenship. He drew an in
teresting parallel between the teach
ngs Of K'angHi In the Holy Eds
and he public utterances of President
Roosevelt. 1t is a truth familiar to all
students of comparative literature that
under similar conditions men of moral
purpose have much the same ideas.
Deyout scholars have always delighted
in the fact that the noblest sentiments
of Greek philosophy are not unlike
those of the Bible That a modern
man should preach what was preached
by the ancients only bears out LOwell's
epigram that the best things obligingly
got themselves said several thousand
years ago.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

ern that the body was loaded in the
fate defying way.
But the railroad man is not alone
in his belief In omens and charms. The
passenger also has a pet lot of super
stitions that defy logic and the persua-
sion of common sense. The belief that
the wearing of white flower or a white
ribbon protects travellers from accident
is fairly widespread. Some believe that
burning coffee just before leaving on
journey is better than an accident pol
Icy, and in certain sections of the South
some very pious people will not under
take railroad trip without first tying
copy of the sixteenth psalm under the
left armpit. Putting wisp Of straw
in the bottom Of the trunk is believed
not only to protect the baggage from
loss, but also insure the safety of the
owner. Women sometimes pack their
stockings in the trunk In mystic cir
Gle, as a protection from accident.
There is superstition that 1t is un-
lucky to lock the trunk before it leaves
the house, and with more apparent rea-
son, 1t is particularly portentous If the
trunk lid falls upon you while you are
packing.
If traveller loses his hat out Of a
car window there Is compensation In
the knowledge that it means good news
from home. If passenger happens to
pass a derailed or wrecked locomotive.
1t Is the sign that he soon is to come
into possession of hidden wealth. To
see a crow feeding on a carcass is an
other lucky omen for traveller
If dust blows in persons eye while
on his way to catch a train it is sign
of accident on the trip. 1t is consid-
cred an ominous encounter for a person
hurrying to a train to meet a spectacle
wearing negro. 1t Is also unlucky for
traveller to cut his finger nails lust
before starting on a journey; disgrace
will overtake him, and IL traveller
leaves home in carriage for the station
it is simply inviting disaster for his
family or friends to watch him out of
sight. To insure the safe return of n
nervous traveller it is only. necessary
to tie an Irish knot in his handker-
chief, but If he loses the knotted piece
Of linen he had better end his misery
by immediate suicide.
Here is an i1cantation which Pullman
conductors declare will insure slumber
on sleeping car to even chronic in
somniacs, If repeated several times with
the eyes focused ON the tip of the nose:
"a sleeper is that on which the
sleeper which carries the sleeper runs:
therefore, while the sleeper sleeps in
the sleeper the sleeper carries the sleep
er over the sleeper into the sleeper
which carries the sleeper, and Jumps
off the sleeper by striking the sleeper
in the sleeper. and there is 10 sleeper
In the sleeper"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

The feeling Of China for this coun.
try Is unusually friendly, and 1t is for
statesmen to maintain and promote the
sentiment. How far the ancient East
can ever be an extension Of the course
Of empire that for ages has taken its
way westward Is problem that time
alone can settle. But America and Asia
can be friends and commercially inti-
mate without trenching too far on race
and social traditions, habits, tastes and
tendencies.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25
LOSES PRESENCE OF MIND
Guest, Though FOrewarned, Puts
Hostess in n Predicament

Guest, Though FOrewarned, Puts
| Hostess in n Predicament.
An amusing anecdote was told by a
young matron the other day apropos of
absent-minded persons. She had been
married only a short time and was Civ
ing luncheon to some of her mothers
friends. She was particularly anxious
to have everything go off well, that her
| reputation as housekeeper might he
established The little menu was made
out after much consultation with the
| new French cook. She had trimmed
the table with her own hands and all
was in charming readiness, when at the
| eleventh hour an old school friend ar
rived from out of town and asked If
she could stay for luncheon. 1t was
most inconvenient, but the warm
| hearted bride welcomed her.
"Stay, by all means, dear Amy" she
said. "But there is one condition.
Please do not take any chaudfroids.
There was not enough chicken and the
cook has only just told me. These
French people are so economical. But,
after all, if you and both say No to
them, they are sure to go around.
Don't forget. dear"
Amy promised faithfully and went
upstairs to prepare for the party. The
guests arrived promptly and the lunch
con began with an excellent melon for
each. The hostess, having been warn
ed against too much food, especially as
there was to be bridge afterwards, had
cut out all the extras and limited her
dishes to the melons, a cheese soufile
and the chaudfroids. The last she re-
fused when they came her way and
trembled at the small amount on the
dish. There was not even any extra
aspic jelly, but she reflected with re-
lief that there would be just enough
when Amy refused. Then, to her hor-
ror, she saw her absent-minded friend
uot only take one, but two, upon her
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

Many of the colleges and universities
are in no-license towns. Leland Stan
ford Is the largest non-sectarian insti-
tuition to enforce prohibition within the
university domain. Intoxicants are for
bidden in boarding houses and fratern-
ity buildings. Similar restriction has
long obtained at several colleges which
are under the control Of influence of
The churches.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25
A Good Old World.

When the sun comes out,
An the clouds 60 way,
An the little children
Come out to play,
An the grass looks green,
An the cat sits curled
On the gate post, amt it
A good old world?
When the mocking bird
Sings lifting tune,
An the air is liker
The first O. June
Than midwinter air,
Amt your griefs all furled,
An, honest, amt it
A good old world?
When sorrow comes,
An your head droops low,
An you've come to know
ali Il Clldp Cdll KNOW
OF grief, an your hopes
Are in darkness hurled,
An a friend comes, amt it
A good old world?
It's n good old world
It's a good world, yes!
For the hope an love
An the tenderness
That comes when a chap
BY rough fate is hurled
In Il hopeless heap
It's a good old world!
For the little babies
That laugh and run,
For the cat a-nappin'
Out in the sun
On the high gatepost
In q soft heap curled,
For the singin' bird,
It's a good old world!
udd Mortimer Lewis.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25
THE RENAISSANCE OF THE KN1cKERBocKER.

plate. The waitress had not sufficient
presence of mind to halve the remand
er, so two women went without any.
And l am sure" added the narrator,
In conclusion, that they all went home
hungry. Why, blush even now when
think of that luncheon. New York
Tribune.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

1t is mortifying to learn that Aunt
Carrie Nation was fined $25 and costs
day or two ago for scolding. Things
have come to pretty pass If Aunt Car
rie can't express herself in her custom
ary voice and manner without being
punished for 1t.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

Human nature is funny thing, and
after Anna Gould has had her second
bitter lesson with fake 'noblemen,'
there will be plenty of her country
people sorry for her.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

Houston, Texas, has a woman who
declares that she wouldn't marry the
best man living. Perhaps he ought to
be congratulated.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

Baron Won Sternburg, German am
bassador to the United States, in an
address at the University of Illinois
once showed that all the great leaders
Of nations such as Frederick the Great
and Kang- HI, the greatest Chinese
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

According to Mark Twain, "a mine is
a hole in the ground owned by liar"
Mark also has evidence that other busi-
ness enterprises are owned by the same
party.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25
No shnre in the Fun.

what are you crying for, my little
boy2'
"Boo-hoo! Pa fell downstairs
Don't take on so. He'll get better
soon."
Sister saw him fall all the way. 7
never saw muffin ANSWERS.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

The japanese government denies that
It is in sore need Of money. This may
make it easier for japanese tax-dodgers
to sleep well.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

King Alfonso may as well give uI
the hope that he and Queen Victoria
will ever be permitted to move into q
fashionable fiat.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

''The nation" says John G. Woolley
as awake" Yes. 1t is even sitting up
and noticing things, as old man Castro
has found out
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

These mysterious" murders which
are startling Paris would be easy to un-
derstand If they were not done in
French,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

By writing the story Of his life and
sufferings himself, Mr.. Rockefeller
cleverly forestalls Murat Halstead
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

Perhaps few more people would try
to be good If they didn't bump into so
many others who overdo the thing.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

To choose friends for their appear
ance is no worse than to judge books
by the cover.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

DR.. Koch's cure for the sleeping
sickness" is good medicine to 'try on"
the boy whose job is the early chores.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

When money begins to talk people
sit up and take notice.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

The multiplication table doesn't sat
isfy a small boys hunger.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

With the numerous courts In session
these are trying times.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

Mankind is divided into happy peo-
pie, unhappy people, and the Gould fam
fly.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

Jealousy is the trading stamp given
with each case of true love.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-09-25

Some farmers are smaller potatoes
than they raise.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-12-07
EXPERIMENT WITH KoA

Hilo. Dec. 3.-Among the passengers
leaving Hilo by the steamer Enter
prise last week. was the constructor Of
the Hawaii Mahogany Lumber Com.
panys big saw mill at Pahoa, Mr..
Haner. He had Just been to the koa
forest, near the volcano. picking out
some OF the oldest, toughest, most
knotty and gnarly pieces OF koa lum.
Der that he could find, pieces that had
been out In the open air for months
and longer.
Mr.. Haner took these samples with
him to the mainland and will place
them with different factories where
machinery Is used for planning and fin.
ishing. 1t has been claimed, he says,
that koa is too hard wood to be
handled by machinery but he thinks
otherwise and will make the expert
ments, A board can be run through
machine In few seconds that would
occupy couple Of men a week In
smoothing and planning II by hand. In
order to make the test as satisfactory
NJ possible. Mr.. Haner took with him
the toughest specimens of the koa
that he could find.