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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

Money cannot easily be borrowed In
small communities. and when 1t Is
found, the rate of interest Is usually
high. A law has lately been passed In
Massachusetts, intended to relieve this
condition by permitting the establish
ment Of small cooperative banks
| They are to be based on substantially
the same principle as that on whict
are founded the Raiffeisen banks IL
Germany and Italy. The Raiffeiser
bank is really a group of neighbors
living In the came community and ia
miliar with one another's affairs, form
ed for the purpose of uniting theii
credit In borrowing money for such oil
them as need 1t. Every member of the
group must be industrious and of gooo
moral character. When he wishes tc
borrow money he must explain what
he plans to do with 1t. If the lending
committee approves his purpose, the
money will be advanced to him at a
low rate of interest, usually per cent
Then general supervision is kept
over him to see that he spends the
money In accordance with his an.
nounced purpose, and so conducts him
self as to be able to pay it back when
1t falls due. 1t Is said that this sye
tenn has not only relieved the German
farmers from the expressions of the
usurers, but has also improved the
moral tone Of the country. AS loans
are made only to members, and as ali
the members are jointly liable for the
payment of loans, they all watch one
another to see that there is no waste
of money in drunkenness or in Other
loose living. There Is room in rural
America for such institutions. The
experience Of Mentone, Italy, with a
local bank of slightly different plan
illustrates what might happen there.
A little more than twenty-five years
ago some small capitalists formed a
bank In the town to take the place OF
another institution that had failed.
The prevailing rate of interest for
farmers was then IL per cent. In eight
years this little cooperative bank had
succeeded in reducing the rate to 8
per cent, and the small farmers had
no difficulty In borrowing The dis.
trict Is now prosperous, and the farm.
ers have been relieved from the press
ing burden Of debt.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04
Of THE
WIRELESS

Peary climbed the crag to the wire
less station to interview Spracklin. He
told the operator that he wanted to
send to the world below his account
of the discovery of the north pole.
He believed that he could put it on
the land wire at Chateau Bay down
the coast, but the wireless man at
Indian Harbor had told him that the
Dominion government had abandoned
that land wire since last he had come
down from the North and he must
use the wireless. Could the wireless
do it?
Spracklin said that it could. Then
he called the man at Belle Isle over
the strait a hundred miles away, and
told him to pass the word along the
line that there was big work ahead.
The word was passed down to the of
flee of the management in Ottawa.
Spracklin worked twenty hours out of
every twenty-four for five days alone
and unaided save for the relief his
engineer gave him while he was eat
ing his meals. Spracklin and all the
others pounded the key during those
five days, not knowing at what min
ute the spark would fail because of
the strain pnt upon the apparatus.
Spracklin would send two, three or
four thousand words, then stop. Each
succeeding station below would re-
ceive, then forward this amount, and
not until it had all been put upon the
cables at Cape Ray would the next
installment be launched.
Here is how Peary's story was zig
Jagged down the coast through the
air to the cable end. From Battle
Harbor it went southeastward across
the Straits of Belle Isle to the sta
tion situated on the northern tip OF
the island of that name. Belle Isle
relayed to Point Amour, back to the
Labrador.
| Point Amour sent the message to
the east and south again to Point
Richie, on the west coast of New
foundland north of Bay of Islands
From Point Richie the spark jumped
westward once more and across the
Gulf of st. Lawrence to Heath Point
on the island of Anticosti. The fina
Jump was back again to the New
lfoundland coast. where at Cape Ray
the message was put on the cable.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

A dozen men in the wilderness up
beyond the gateway of the st. Law
renee where the shreds Of civilization
fray out against the barrier OF the
great North link UP the world with
the wilderness of the Atlantic and the
wilds of the Arctic regions. They do
1t with wireless key and the mes
sages they receive and send pass over
barren wastes where no man lives and
land wires have never been strung.
A dozen there are who serve as
operators; others of the repairing
crew and the supplying department
come and go, but these dozen men are
year after year held practically 2ris-
oners on the bald cliffs of Labrador
and Newfoundland before the key Of
the wireless. They send through the
air the tales. of ships that come and
go, reports that may interest St.
Johns or Montreal shipping ex-
changes; relay from the one to the
other the meagre commercial mes
sages that must pass from dealer to
fisherman; send down to the land
ltelegraphs the occasional news OF
shipwrecks and sea sufferings that
find way into the papers. At Battle
Harbor Gordon Sprackling, young
Nova Scotian, is the Marconi opera
tor, and Leonard Stephenson his en-
gineer. Compared with some of their
fellows Sprackling and Stephenson
are fortunate in the environment OF
a metropolis
But the wireless men are far from
the maddening crowd even at that
To reach the wireless station requires
nice training in alpine climbing, q
sure foot and an undisturbed sense ol
balance. Here, in cleft below the
summit of the cliff is the wireless hut
and In this hut less than two months
ago events occurred which need re
cording. They should be recorded be
cause they measure the stamina o.
the men who work the wireless II
this cheerless country.
The polar ship Roosevelt worked
her way into the narrow harbor on,
sunny morning, and while the towr
seethed with excitement Commands
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

This whole business of exploration
has got to be regulated by law. There
is still one pole to discover, and there
are several highest mountains to be
climbed. Perhaps an international
bureau Of exploration might be Gre
ated which would preserve some por-
tions OF our too small planet for the
enjoyment Of future explorers, and
which would enforce such regulations
Q, exploration that the controversies
now raging over one pole and two
mountains shall not be repeated.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

my eyes. did not care for the money
1t was the, hoy's high sense Of honor
and duty that touched me. / wish
could make the sum smaller than thai
owed me. but the boy knows approx
imately the amount, and l dare moi
rob him Of the satisfaction of paying
the whole debt" That boy is made o.
the real stuff. He is of the stuff o.
which heroes are made. No law forces
the brave young fellow to pay the OBJ
legations of the dead save the law o.
moral duty. He is not impelled by
any hope Of gain save that of con
science and by no fear of loss save
the loss Of honor. But he is man
every inch Of him, every pound Of
him. One would rather be the father
of such a youth than to be father to 6
common millionaire. Because the boy
has got soul fiber.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

This story was told the editor, re-
Gently. by a friend: "A brother Of
mine died few years ago. leaving a
young son. My brother was a good
fellow, but was never able to accumu-
late any estate. He frequently bor-
rowed money of me, which was glad
to lend him. He paid 1t as he could,
but always was in debt to me. When
he died he owed me between $500 and
$500. OF course, never expected to
get back my money. But reckoned
without the boy, my nephew. He has
grown to be young man. The other
day I had a letter from him asking
me to name the precise amount his
father owed me at the time of the lat
ter's death. He said he intended to
pay every cent of 1t. His salary was
but s45 per month. but he would be
able to save enough to pay me in the
course Of few years" Said my
friend: The letter brought tears x
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04
THIS WINTERS DINNERS.
Courses VIII BE Fewer, but VIII
Include All the Luxuries,

Courses VIII BE Fewer, but VIII
Include All the Luxuries.
In way dinners are to be simpler
this winter than before. They are not
to be composed of less rich or luxuri.
GUS materials (indeed, the use of lux.
uries in food will be of greater vogue
than ever), but according to the pic
ture, the simplicity will be present in
the form of fewer courses and less
elaborate of dishes.
Dinners will begin with one of the
hundred canapes with caviare or with
oysters. The grapefruit as an opening
course for dinner is quite out of 1t.
1t comes first to the luncheon table
frequently, but when 1t figures in the
dinner 1t is as salad. And salads of
any sort must be removed as far
as possible from the ornamental vari.
ETY.. Above all, they must not be
mussy or messy.
Yet this appearance is not to be
avoided If several kinds of vegetables.
for instance are collected in the salad
bowl. Three vegetables make the very
limit of those that may be employed,
and included in the three is the let.
tuce that Is the background.
The French vegetable salad, to be
sure, consists of several kinds. But 1t
should not make its appearance in a
formal dinner of courses. 1t is for a
luncheon or for dainty home dinner.
which consists of but soup, a chop
with vegetable, salad and a light
dessert with crackers and cheese.
Wines, it goes without saying. must
be of the choicest variety to form
harmonious note with the simple din
ner composed Of luxuries-paradoxi-
cal as that may seem. And the pleas.
ant custom of serving an hour or 80
after dinner an imported mineral
water will be more popular the COM
ing season than ever. A short time
after dinner dryness of the throat
is often experienced, and this mineral
water is a refreshment at such a time
to be appreciated. 1t Is also to be re-
garded as an excellent digestive.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

To the girl who has been rightly
trained. whose essential charm is en-
hanced by innocent reserve, unaffected
candor. ardent enthusiasm for things
that are beautiful and good, a manner
unfailingly courteous and an enuncia-
tion musically sweet-to any maiden
who unites these not incompatible
qualities, the doors of social and per-
sonal opportunity are thrown wide
open, and she is received with pleasure
anywhere, as likely to impart more
sweetness and light" than she re.
ceives.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04
BEGGAR'S BAIT PROBLEM.
IL Ia Wise for Mendicant TO Leave
Few or Many Pennies in Hatf

Is Ia Wise for Mendicant to Leave
Few or Many Pennies in Hatf
"One thing that I've never been able
to settle in my mind to my own sat.
isfaction," said street beggar whose
specially is sitting ON step and hold.
ing out his hat to passersby, according
to the Charleston g. CO. News and
Observer, is the question of how
many pennies 1t is wise to have in the
hat for people to see as they go by.
OF course, you understand, there are
two theories in this; working on one
you leave there only few, just three
or four pennies scattered around ir.
regularly but pretty far apart, and on
the other you leave in the hat a lot
OF pennies.
"Of course the idea of the first plan
is to make people when they see how
little you've got want to chip in and
help, and the idea Of the other plan is
to stir people up to generosity by
showing them how generous Others
have been, and there's a heap to be
said for that. There's lots OF people
that give because other people have
because they like to go with the
crowd.
"I've tried both plans and had goot
days with a lean bait and bad day.
with full bait In the hat, and ther
I've had good days with full bal
and bad days with lean bait. AL
you can do is II one plan doesn't worl
we'll, try the other; you never cal
| tell"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

Not for many years will the men
who sit on the tops of crags in New.
foundland and Labrador and send
through the air to the world below
the news of ships and of men have
such task to perform.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

is believed that only through enlightened indusralsm
shall find that state of things in which should be
impossible for anyone to be depraved poor"
There is altrusm in trade building and mere op-
tmism is not immune but scientific meliorism stands
the and tear, while healthy indusrialsm offers
the safest and means In the workshop labora
tory and marts of trade in wearing away the barriers
between the races and between the classes.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

A number Of shaky thrones are in
such dilapidated condition that
there are doubts as to whether or not
they can be patched up for the pres
ent occupants.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

Explorer Amundsen will drift to-
ward the north pole, with seven years
food in his trunk and firm purpose
to get Cooks brass tubing.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

A California judge has placed a
chauffeur under sentence for man.
slaughter on probation, conditioned on
his paying S25 month to the sup
port OF his victims family. Lots Of
men would like to keep out Of ten
year sentence on such conditions.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

Senator Aldrich says credit is as
good as cash. There are some people
who always prefer to pay their bills
by checks because in doing that they
do not feel that they are giving up
money,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

Why not let 1t dissolve, Mr.. Rookie
feller? According to the popular un.
derstanding you have a tidy little
sum saved up for rainy day, any.
how.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

them for the pulpit the bar. Parents might we'll
try to back the waters of the Niagara de-
what profession business their should adopt
God gives to every man particular work he do
and in the performance Of which he be happy but
the place which fill with satisfaction to him.
self and others is that for which designed him.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04
DON'T SELECT THE CHILD'S OCCUPATION.
By Rev Madison C. Pefers

Many an ambitious parent forces boy to
become a preacher, doctor or lawyer when
measuring dry goods would have been the
fittest thing for him to do, while, on the con-
trary, we find parents taking boys out of
school at IA to sell dry goods whose skill in
hair splitting, whose adroitness at parry and
thrust and whose fertility of resource in
every exigency show that nature designed
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

1t is claimed there is lobster
shortage this year, but no one but a
painstaking Investigator would ever
suspect 1t.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

The automobile makers are to turn
out $4,000 cars for 1910, all Of them
sold In advance and guaranteed to
run like gas meters!
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

Another honest man. A Kansas City
merchant whose store was burned re-
fused to accept all the money offered
by the insurance company.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

earners The course of the nations is strewn with
wrecks of culture and dominating art exists to-day
nothing but fragments. There never will be endur-
ing art and culture until the people of nation grow
up to them WHOLE and through adequate vocational
pride skill perhaps but certainly through par
asitism or partial views.
Japan has shown US, Germany is teaching u.s. and our
disointed national educational system is in need
of proper articulation with growing vitalzing in
dustralism based upon melorism in the factory the
warehouse the store but detached from tricky and
sorded forms of mere commercialism
1t is the hope of scientific meorsm that mankind
has reached an epoch of betterment by controlling
conscious evolution acting with natural evolution and 1t
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

Some one suggests that monu-
ment ought to be built to the man
who invented ice cream. Let the
women subscribe.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04
Had a Chance to Save Money.

"That man made a million dollars
while he was In tail!" said a New
York fnancier.
"YeA but his case was one of the
kind that does not require the expense
of allenist isttestimony."-Washiugtor
Star.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

A grandson Of Ralph Waldo Emer-
son is now governor of the Philip
pines. Those Filipinos don't appreci-
ete what we are doing for them.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04
So Hc Does,

"Do you believe that tough beef is
as good for a person as tender beef?'
Better. The man who gets tough
beef gets both nourishment and exer
cise"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

The things that come to those who
wait are generally the things that no
one else wants.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

Money makes the mare go. And
Mr.. Rockefeller hopes 1t will have the
same effect on the lazy bug.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

Nat Goodwin is taking an interest
In aeronautics. Mr.. Goodwin always
was high fiier.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

When trouble goes to sleep don't set
the alarm clock.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

And now our busy press will have
to pick new husbands and wives for
all the recent Divorces In. New York.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

There are all sorts of people, man
has actually turned up who says ser
mons are not long enough.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

1t is easier to keep up than 1t is to
get behind, and then hurry to catch
up.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

These days a small appetite is bet
ter than great riches.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

A boys idea Of hardship is to have
to wash his neck and ears every day.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04
INDUSTRIAL BETTERMENT ESSENTIAL TO CITY.
By O. Edward Fuller

Strange that we have learned to regard in
dustrialism with pride but shy at reference to
work and trade" Art and culture we con-
jure with, like fakirs in front of sideshow,
although we draw our food and clothes from
work and trade; while past history indicates
no future prospect of the solid furnishing
forth of worthy national life with lack of
broad and wholesome respect for the wage
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

criminology a science. This movement Is growing
day by day. flowing in like enormous wave that is
beyond the power Of man to check. The abolition of
capital punishment is only small part of this great
movement but part of mean Importance One hun
dred years ago death the penalty in England
number of offenses and among others for
counterfetng stamps for the sale of perfumery and
also of certificates for hair powder. We have made
some progress at least! We altogether more hui
name than were then
Let us remember that two wrongs do not make
right and that the state does annu the murder by
putting the murderer to DEATH but, instead makes 1t
double tragedy Some countries have abolished capital
punishment but it still remains blot to honor and
religion" That same spirit which has abolished the
punishmens of drawing and quartering in the past will
abolish the punishment of death in the future.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04
NEED OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.
BY Edwin O. Cooley.

Within recent years there has sprung up a
widespread demand for Industrial education.
1t comes from the manufacturer, profession
al man, mechanic, farmer and educator. In
dustrial education has probably a different
meaning for each of these types of individ-
uals. Yet all agree upon one thing, and that
is that 1t is something not found in adequate
form in our present educational system.
L. ..atLi i.auz hin
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04

country for the development of industrial education
outside the college university Thousands of pupils
leave school at early with training what
directly fitting them for the activities of life in
the Industrial world, where most of them will find their
work In the larger cities trade schools and continua
ton schools of various types must be organized The
scope and character Of their work will be varied and
must be adapted to local conditions. In rural
munites secondary schools in which the study of ag
rcuture and related lines of work is the dominant
pose must be organized But when these different types
Of schools into existence, in considerable
number throughout the country the solution of the
problem has just begun For the great of those
needing industrial education the existing public schools
must furnish the facilities.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-04
REFORMATION AS A CRIME CURE.
By Casino q. RomiIIy,

1t is now an uncontested truth that our
methods for dealing with crime have been
sadly defective. We have regarded punish
ment only from the deterrent and retributive
standpoints. and have paid no attention
whatever to the reformative There is
movement to try to help and reform crimin
ais, and SO by reclamation to cure crime by
going to the root of the evil and by studying
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-12-06
MAKES sTOMvCH
TROUBLE VANISH

Why not get ono now--this mo-
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Pape's Diapepsin costs only so
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Absolute relief from all stomach
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Tell your druggist that you want
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Remember, if your stomach feels
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