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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-04-30

Turkeys principal products are to
bacco, cereals Of all kinds, cotton, figs.
nuts, almonds, grapes, olives and all
varieties of fruits. Coffee, madden.
opium and gum are largely exported.
In 1900, 1900 chests of opium, or 1O5,-
300 pounds, were sent from that conn
try. Carpets also form an important
article of export and are made on hand
looms.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-04-30

1t is generally believed that the load
pulls easier If put well forward on the
wagon. But this Is not so on the ordl
nary wagon, where the hind wheels are
larger than the front ones. Should the
wheels be equal in size, the load should
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-04-30

lulS SuppOSlllOn IL
natural, inasmuch as
so many eggs of
questionable purity
reach the dinner ia
BILE. If the dealer
d e ired he could
readily discard eggs
of doubtful age. as
there are numerous
devices for testing
them. One of the
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-04-30

'hc SontriN'tuce De-
Ing to catch up onions
and similar vegeta-
bles and the neces-
sarily accompanying
dirt and by slight
shaking separate the
dirt from the vege-
table. 1t can readily
be carried in the
hands of the oper.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-04-30
Simple EgR-Tesfer.

The average person evidently imag-
ines that 1t is impossible for the dealer
to distinguish bad eggs and good eggs
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-04-30
Unique Vegetable Digger.

Something new and novel in the way
Of vegetable diggers has been devised
by a Kentucky farmer, the object of
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-04-30

How busy the hounds would be if
all the wolves were hunted as they de.
servel
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-04-30

Women rule the waves of the matri-
nonial sea.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
HIS PETS sET.Es-HELPERs.
Warmers Horses Measure Feed an Cat Eetches Mint.

Farmer's Horses Measure Feed and Cat Fetehes Mint.
 New York Press.
 Martin Stillwagon, a farmer near Green Pond, is not a nature faker, and he does not hold a certificate of mem hership in the Ananias Club. He sim ply is a mild-mannered agricuituralist. horticulturist,s turkeyologist, and pig ologist who has things. For instance, he, has two old horses. Bill and Bob, who have pulled in double harness for twelve years and are attached to each other so closely that neither will pull in single harness or even leave the sta- ble without the other. They are so in- telligent that he lets them measure out their own feed and carry their own water, one working the handle of the pump while the other holds the bucket.
 The horses. however. are the least of his freaks. When it comes time for taking up potatoes. Stiliwagon whistles for Bonaparte, his pet pig, points to the potato patch, and says: "Get to work" The pig starts at one end of a row. roots up all the potatoes. and when he gets to the other end. tackles the next row and keeps up the work until all the potatoes are above ground Bony never misses potato and never eats one, although he is fond of them. He's muzzled. After the potatoes are up, Stillwagon drops barrels in holes lin the ground an dthe pig roots the po- tatoes into the barrels. He in the most intelligent pig in this section. .t
 When the farmer feels like having mint julep he does not worry about where the mint is to be obtained. Tom. the house cat, looks at the full bot tie and then at his master and trots off to a neighboring bog and returns with several springs of nice, fresh, juicy mint to Stillwagon to bruise. While that is going on a blackbird with split tongue whistles Drink her down." and an educated 'possum sits up at attention beneath an apple tree In a yard which blooms every Christ mas. regardless of the weather. This apple tree Is a Prohibitionist. It never bears fruit, and seems to feel proud that applejack and hard cider from 1t never added to the worlds evil of I-drunkenneas.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
Grandfather's Tales of the
 Pastimes of the Old Days

difersnSe is that the boys did not neg ,nn now t9 ' engage in the sport. going from m win the championship. Nor were they monsy-ssimply for sDors: Sss nor Sa.sdidds did they @ Ethe man or boy in football. who had the biggest foot, the heavfest muscles was the champion. and in basebali the one without fiinching was hero worthy of adulation and entitled to apotheosis.
 I tell him that we too can have our phone and write to our sweethearts eourtship Is too long distanced and ters are cold storage; look like an ice box; not like the old-fashioned horse- back rides and strolls in the woods; with mouth to ear in whispers ana heart to heart pulsations.
 Hs says. that these new.fangied frnnes fro% esrmsny. ersG he thinks, S are woS soS no matter who leads; They don't skill or excitement: that ia that dance the leaders were partners--snaIe and fsmale--who after the round closed to prsve Which or cousd hold out aSs longest. This solo or duet was . part =of the evening program and the per- LpFIndHCe was we'll executed 10 Lne ut- light and applause of admiring look ers-on. As to the negro corn shuck. ings and log roiis, they now can roii have their societies, be elected treas urer. steal all the money, walk the streets in the cities all day with their hands In their pockets, drink rifieshot whiskey, adulterated and poisoned, tote their pistols. have free fights, kill one another promisculously, and often an officer of the law and innocent out- siders, and have . good time generally.
 I tell Ps that he don't know how collaborating to ride in an automobile at forty or fifty miles an hour. or to see the people on the crowded streets running and skedadling to get out of our way, and keep from being run over and killed. Such fun! If we run down and kill some one we do not stop to inquire. but speed faster to get out of sight of the indulgenr po- flee; If. by chance we are prose ity and go clear; if we fail in this and ter a kind-h earted Governor will par don us with the other murderers. So we take all the chances and generally come out all right.
 Finally, I tell him as q clincher. to wind up the argument. that in those days the people had no Roosevelt for President and we had no Conner for Governor. No! he replies, and you all do not want them now. They are played out, back numbers.
 So, we'll let 1t go at that.
 Selma. Jan. IS. 'os. .
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
SOCIETY sUPERsTITIONs.
Women of Faahion Believe in Signs and Omemss
New York Press

New York Press.
 Society women are superstitious. in. dividually and as a class. This ia shown not only by the talismans so many of them carry, but by their re- fusal to do certain things. Of course, 1t isn't often a social queen Is con- fronted with the choice of walking un- der a ladder or around 1t. but she has as many chances as her less fortunate sisters to- see the new moon over her left shoulder or to look at Luna through a glass. How many women of fashion will glance at the lesser lumlnary under such conditions. Names. please. Society women also are indu- anced by the old wifes tale that if cradle be rocked when the baby is not in 1t the child will die. And then there's the money spider. Even women with more wealth than they can spend thrill with delight when that insect favoFs them with Its attention. It Is we'll known among the superstitiouS that the presence of a money spider on ones clothing means one will receive riches in a short time and from an . unexpected quarter.
 No woman should worry if her scis- Gors rust in spite of her. It will mean somebody Is laying by money for her. Of course this applies only when the rust comes despite attempts to keep It away. You can't make the charm work by tossing the scissors into a damp place and deliberately letting them be ruined The society woman with a housekeeper conscientiously Su- perstitioua will not suffer from hay ing her bed turned on Sunday. It'B the worst of bad luck, as very well regulated housekeepers know. Natur- ally the least superstitious woman who spills salt will take care to nulllfy the consequent misfortune by throwing a pinch of 1t over her left shoulder. If she dldA't she wouldn't be a woman. And every woman who returns to her home shortly after starting for any place will be sure to sit down before going out again. As for umbrellas and parasols. If there's a man fin the world who can get any woman to open one indoors he's a wonder and ought to be confined as a dangerous hypnotisL
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
PRESIDENTIAL DELINQUENCY.

If the President of the UGited States Is justified in holding up MT. Tillman as a terrible example, because of al- legged abuse of the franking privilege. what are we to think of the President himself for setting aside precedent and everything else in using govern ment property. The New York Sun in commenting on this Presidential propensity says:
 No President since the foundation of the government ever used public property for his private benefit in a the present President Mir. Roosevelt has made the United States Navy the plaything of his children. With him g, public trust has always been a fam. race at New London has witnessed the use of a government ship by the Pres ident for the use of his family and friends at the expense of the treasury of the United States. A considerable portion of the American navy has by Presidential order paraded at the ex- pense of the taxpayer in front of the Presidents summer cottage in order that he and his friends can vary the monotony of midsummer by a parade of warships and the welcome sound of the Presidential salute Until Con- els MT. Roosevelt, in the same spirit of economy, compelled railroads to furnish him and his friends with free transportation. notwithstanding the rigid prohibition by interstate com merce laws of any preference to any citizen. The unprecedented use of the American embassies in Europe to glorify the Roosevelt family, while exciting the hllarity of the European royal families. shocked those Americans at home and abroad dignity of American character lowered by the insufferable snobbery of aping the etiquette of royal courts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
Nfuch in LittIe.

The making of chinaware is the old est industry.
 The silkworm cocoon yields 1000 yards of fiber.
 There are neither convents nor mona steries in Norway.
 A Glasgow feEryboat with Q full load of sixteen wagons may be raised or lowered seventeen feet to reach differ ent landings.
 Figures show that the average Amer ican cOnsumes half his weight, or 92.e pounds of sugar year.
 An electric attachment for rural free delivery boxes rings a bell in the own CTS house when mail is deposited
 Government experts state that more than 95 per cent of the flies of a city are bread in stables.
 The Dutch will celebrate the cen tenary of the establishment of na- tional Independence by a world fair at The Hague in 1918. A savings bank with a clock attach ed. which cannot be wound unless e coin be dropped in the slot in the bank has appeared. A solution of four ounces each of lhyposulphite of soda and sugar oi lead to a gallon of water, used boiling hot, will impart a blue color to most metals.
 A London medical authority gives the credit of the decrease in the death rate of that city to the fumes of gaso- line from automobiles. which he sayG lare antiseptic.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17

H II |. 7 \ b Editor Advertiser:
 What has become of senex7 Did the prohibition waters wave drown him or did hot blast across the deserl dry him up like . mummy In his last nstsrsnce ne said that selma was l. 2
 srss .s s ss s: n: e if ,o oaT' the old man has gone to where 'tht spirits of just men are made perfect Pity he could not stay long enough
 F si as ,ns ,ss sssts tie of sst sstss m iRd s ss Some think 1t will be productive of great good to the State and beneficial to the public, while others predict ssn. sss sss.s u.s or ssase of drugs In place of alcohol as more de- thieves and fnoonsf Iners. We shall did enjoy roaming through the woods with the girls and swsefhearts, pick ing berries. scrapinE sweetgum and mikinT hay. i1ys Sssrs end n nas jolly time n ,,. aniItlnss and candy outings Of the ana had ! glorious time the men trying to aailt: when they " would & cook % other oyer. Just for fun. He tens us too of the lively spirited dances they s Which T he'd fife ts and sest @ in fl. hsys asSs heard him tell also of the old time mi- iitis musters and the free lights. of the log roilings and corn hucklngs.
 At the leg rollings men would coh- test with each other as to strength In lifting and toting the logs. and pulling his opponent down with the handspike.
 The work was interrupted about once an hour to refresh and invigorata with ardent spirits, and the men re- newed their labors with joyous spirits. Then 1t was pure old blue head Dexter whfskey at 20 cents a gallon by the barrel. none of the adulterated. com pounded. medicated stun of the pres ent day st ss per gallon with revenue
 The corn shucilngs were generally from the .neighborhood. who enliveneo their work with songs and a modicum of barley corn. and would shuck out a crib of corn in Id few hours. And they had c lively time! tPity there Is no cob corn in cribs now to De shuck-
 But I tell him that we of the pres ent generation have much to compeD- sate for the loss of those old time froiIcs and fun. We have the telephons to talk with our girls, the typewrltos for love letters, baseball, football, bas- ketball and high balls and lager bees (used to haveC and near beer
 He says baseball Is only a succession of old town ball. when school boys chose leaders wfios In turn. chose sides and often challenged the boys of rival schools for . contest of skill. The
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17

vision made for clean table-cloths, napkins. knives and forks, and all other appurtenances used in hotels? Clean tables and furnishings are as important to the health of patrons as clean beds and furnishings, and if the law is to go into the supervising and regulating business 1t might just as well go the whole hog. In fact, IL might be as we'll to regulate Sink. while about it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17

newspapers should have thought 1t part of their duty to comment un- favorabiy -sonie. of them bitterly upon the occurrence. has been rather too much for our comprehension, The claim that It was an tJtentionaI re- fiection on Roosevelt, or that 1t was intended as . slight. is "a. weak sub- stitute for argument As to that mat ter. if some social club should defi- nitely and rurposely hand out re- buke to him we do not see that 1t should be made a national affair
 The truth is that a toast to "the sovereign people, would be much more proper on occasions of this kind than Is a toast to the President There Is too much disposition in some quar- ters to oxait that official above all else; too much disposition to look on ours as a government of President and Congress and not a government of the people, as was intended, by it's founders. Aside from the fact that 1t was none of the Business of the gem eral public to criticise the actian of a club or society regarding the word- ing and object of the tossts drank at its meetings. we think this Brooklyn society was correct on the special oc- casion referred to. in that 1t pre- ferred drinking . toast to the people instead of one to the President new in ofice.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
CIuh sana,rioh,s Origin.

washington HearolO.
 Alan Johnstone Is said to have origi- mated the famous club sandwiches. and the story runs that on going to the club one night between midnight and day-break he found the cafe closed. the cooks. gone. and being nearly famished. he invaded the larder toasted himself some thick slices of bread. sliced them through. buttered them while hot Snd laid thereon every thing he Found in the refrigerator. cold chicken. hsm and lettuce, with a spoonful of mayonoiBe.
 The result was such an. epicurean discovery as. Is not often made. but the story was too good to keep; he con flded the recipe to his cronies and it straiRfftway became one of the popu- lar dishes of the club menu, and so the father of the club sandwich, so deservSdIy' popular. Is the present British Minister to Copenhagen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
Toe Greedy.


 Rehert Herrfck, the brilliant realis- tic novelist. said at q reception lunch son In Chicago: IA.
 sThere is . type of American wife who. Tn ,aef Gfaed Tor wealth and dis play. brings unhappiness on herself She rathers reminds me of the fat man and. the table d'hOte dinner.
 .arhis man entered a restaurant that served a dinner at the fixed price of IS cents. :. He knotted a napkin about his neck and fell to heavily. So heavi- iy, in fact. that the waiter, after whispered conversation with the pro- prietor, approached him and said:
 "sBee pardon, sir. but I'll have 70 charge you . quarter extra; you eat
 "sThe fat man, red and short of breath from his excessive gorging' said earnestly: .4,
 "'For goodness salxe,. don't do that! I'm nearly dead now from eating 70 cents' worth. If you make me eat an. other quarter I'll bust"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
MORNING THOUGHT
 BY J. MARVIN NICHOLS.
only
 Appearances
Science has proven
 that you may gal NaniZa kha narNn nf

only Science has proven Appearances that you may gal
 vanize the nerve of action of limb startles the spectator with the appearance of life. It is not life; it Is only a spasmodic. hideous mimicry of life. Men having seen that forms. endeavor by reproducing the form to recall spirituality. You do produce thereby a something that looks like spirituality. but it Is only Ia resemblance, The worst case of all occurs in the region of the affections. That which begins in the heart en- nobles the whole animal being but that which begins In the inferior part of our being results in the entire degradation and sensualizing of the soul.
 Some mems ambitions are no more than will-'o- wisp fires thrown up from the bogs of appetite and passion Success is only for the man who earns it
 The silent sufferings of the mind. as thread of life and affection, are beyond expression. It has no spoken Ian guage. It tells the story In the sunkeu T eye, the shattered nerve, the silvered story that needs no tongut its very eloquence Is in the hush that attends It. Watch the throng that's passing now-youIl get the message. Such suffering hearts speak only in whis- pers It dreads every listening ear ana evades the nameIess fiend that would increase the torture by a ruthless gos- sip.
 
 There are gold -burdened children done by as we would not do the horse Forever haltered in the stall-a life without work. full of provender anc drink.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
Where Poe Died.

Baltimore Sun.
 On January 19, 1909, will fall the centennial anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allen Poe the poet. The year 1909 was, perhaps, the most remark able birth year in history, as Tenny- son. Mrs. Browning, Darwin, Gladstone Chopin, Mendelssohn, Lincoln and Holmes were born in that year.
 It was planned sometime ago by the Poe Memorial Association, of which Mrs. John Wrenshaw Is Presi- dent, to celebrate the event by the erection of a suitable monument to his memory. At present he Is buried in the graveyard adjoining the West minister Presbyterian Church. Fayette and Green Streets, Baltimore, where an unpretentious tombstone marks his resting place.
 While Poe has many staunch admir- CTS and sympathizers in this city, the responses which have met the appeals for funds for the memorial have been tardy. and all hope of erecting the monument now has been abandoned
 According to Prof. Henry D. Shep- pard, one of the most eminent scholars of this city and a great admirer of Poe the poet died in what is now the Broadway. In 1S49-the time of his death-it was the hospital of Washing ton University, a medical school. after ward merged with the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
PRICES OF AUTOS.

We have never doubted that the enormous prices paid for automobiles must soon be materially reduced. Any one who has kept track of such mat ters knows that anything new which is popular commands a high price at first but gradually and shrely comes down as manufacture and the supply increase. As tc the auto industry, The Pittsburg Post says:
 Automobile building has reached the stage where 1t Is possible p;t3 ,rt to duct. Demonstration was made at the show lately closed in New York City that cars which cost s3,0o0 and purchased for half that. or less.
 II is now possible tc purchase for $500 a motor runabout which will give ten times the service of the best t repairs are very little more. if any, and the person who owns an auto Is enabled to command much wider radius of travel.
 The reduction In price is undoubt- edly due to perfection in nanufac- ture. The industry has grown rap- idly, but manufacturers have not been unobservant. They have taken adyan- tage of every opportunity to produce at lower cost and at the same time to improve the output.
 Reduction in tprice has not cone 1 manufacturer has reckcned upon the law of supply and demand, and knows that a lower price will create demand, and that he can afford to sell on closer margins.
 We are not so sure that the reduce tion in prices is all due to perfection in manufacture. The prices put on good machines when they first came into use was. out of all proportion to the cost of material or labor. But few were made. and as the demand ex- ceeded the supply the makers prac- tically charged their own prices. There were but few persons or firms engaged in making them and oom- petition was slight. The consequence was that people who were ahle to buy them did so at a price vastly out of proportion to the cost of manufacture, but that is ID longer possible. It was the same with sewing machines. biSyNACS anI cOAAO "G might name. As they grew into favor the number of those engaged in mak- ing them increased and the makers were forced to sell them at a fair price.
 The same thing is coming to pass with automobiles, as The Post shows, and the indications are that the price will before long be reasonable. Any man who has paid. say $2.ooo, for an auto, and who is even a telerable judge of the cost of material and labor. knows that the price charged was out of all proportion to the actual cost of manufacture, but as there was fast increasing demand for them. and comparatively few were being made it was easy to get big price. Now the supply is increasing so fast, and so much capital is engaged in their production that exhorhitant prices can no longer be obtained. The reduction in price which Is already evident is but the beginning of what is bound to como in the near future.