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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-11

complished by another London atnIere
a few years ago. While staying at
Hampton Wick, nears Kingston on
Thames, he walked quarter of mile,
rode horse for quarter of mile,
swan quarter of mile, ran quar-
ter of mile, rode a bicycle for
quarter of a mile and finished up by
rowing boat for quarter Of mile
all in the space of 1S9 minutes 80 2-5
seconds.
Our grandfathers were rather fond
OF indulging In those novel tests of
endurance and when many years ago
man ran a mile, walked mile,
wheeled a barrow, trundled hoop
and hoped on one leg all the same dis
tance, In two minutes under the hour
an epidemic of curious athletic feats
sprang up among them, in the same
way we have been bitten lately with
the craze for marathons and London
to.Prighton walks.
Perhaps one of the most amazing
feats was that Of famous pedestrian
of the 4Os, named Coates, who backed
himself to leap hundred hurdles in
a six-mile race against a jockey on a
hunter. The horse was beaten and
coates jumped his hundredth hurdle
In the forty-second minute, the time
limit being set at fifty.
Mention of the Brighton walk recalls
an extraordinary pedestrian perform
ance of some Oxford undergraduates
four years ago who walked from Ok
ford to Reading, a distance of twenty
nine miles, at midnight, In evening
dress and court slippers, after day
of heavy driving rain. Various mod
est fivers" were laid that they would
not do the journey within eight hours.
But the undergraduates won, with
twenty minutes to spare, although they
were thoroughly done up and terribly
footsore when they reached Reading.
The performance, however, Is by NO
means SO remarkable as that Of Lord
Kennedy, who years ago walked on
foot from Inverness to Black Hall, In
Kincardinshire, and by striking
straight across the Grampians arrived
four hours before Sir Andrew Leith
Hay, who took the coach road and who
had laid a wager of $12,500 that he
would be first. The journey occupied
thirty-three hours.
| No one Is more fond Of novel sport
ing matches than the London coster
monger Some years ago one backed
himself to walk from Covent Garden
to Hampstead Heath station and back
on stills, against an opponent carrying
a sack of potatoes. And he won.
Some time before this a Chelsea
fish hawker, carrying half hundred
weight of fish on his head, ran sever
miles along the Brentford road from
Hyde Park corner In forty-five min
utes, and an orange porter won a be
of 10 guineas by carrying hundred
weight of oranges twenty times be
tween Botolph lane and Spitalfeldl
market in one hour and twenty-five
minutes less than the ten hours spe
Gifted In the wager.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-11

decidedly so. 1t has also been Tess
productive as a rule than corn grown
for no particular purpose-just corn.
The conclusion is reached from some
plots that, while this continued selec-
tion for single purpose to the neglect
of all other considerations has resulted
In lower yields, yet this is not a neces-
sary result In some cases high pro-
tein corn has yielded well as compared
with standard varieties bred for no
particular purpose.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-11
Corn Breeding.

The Illinois experiment station has
Just published the results Of its ef-
forts to breed corn for high and low
protein content and for high and low
oil content. Ten generations of corn
have been bred for these different pur-
poses by selection Of seed having the
desired qualities. In the effort to In.
crease the protein content the average
has been changed from 1892 per cent
to 1925 per cent in the effort to de-
crease 1t from 1892 per cent to 1854
per cent. Individual ears have been
found which contain as high as ITS
per cent of protein and as low as 6.1s
per cent, as high as S.59 per cent oi
oil and as low as 1.60 per cent. But
the high protein corn has been II
every case less productive than any
Of ths other three and In some cass'
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-11

Science has shown that where there
is farm that does not pay, the fault
lies not in the land, but in the man
who Is in charge Good or bad farm
ing results from definite reasons. Sue
cess results from painstaking, season
able operations; the application OF
practical knowledge which has been
gained by studying the requirements
which are known will bring success.
Lack Of ambition results In indif-
ferent work on the farm. Taking full
advantage of the resources Of any
farm. and following intelligent, up-to-
date methods Of farming will In due
time mean steady and often very rapid
improvement In yield of crops. In
sense, the resources Of farm vary
with locality; but in the main there
are many Identical conditions on very
many farms. The farmer who works
to establish well-set meadow, aims
to get the hilly, washable, waste lands
set in grass; utilizes the rocky rough
lands by setting out fruit trees;
bitches the low lands and reclaims the
swamps; improves the stony fields by
picking off the surface stones so that
crops will take the places the stones
occupied, uses some Of the ways of
taking advantage of the resources of a
farm.
The farmer who owns big farm In
very many instances does not secure
crops that average as well as the farm
er whose farm rarely exceeds sixty
or seventy acres. The reason Is the
large farmer cannot, with the force
he usually keeps, properly look after
everything, seeing that seasonable
work is done and that each farming
operation is well attended to. Each of
these is great success factor In farm
ing. Hasty work means, invariably,
some neglect or work indifferently
done.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-11
Poultry Notes.

Some farmers neglect the rs to so
cents that the battening Of cracks in
the coop would cost, and each month
feed a dollars worth Of extra corn in
order to supply the animal heat
needed.
Fowls love to thrash out bundle Of
wheat or oats, and 1t does one good
to step around to the door of the
poultry house and listen to the merry
chatter while the fowls are digging in
the straw.
The answer to the question, Does
winter poultry pay? depends In large
measure upon where your hens are
roosting. II on the bare branches OF
a tree, on the northeast corner of the
barn, there can be no doubt about 1t.
Scatter little grain among litter
at noon, and give full feed at night
What is meant by full feed Of grain
ia about a good handful for each fowl
| in the pen. A mixture Of corn. wheat
oats and barley, equal parts by meas
urement, makes an excellent mixture
for winter.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-11
The Egotistical Actor.

Theatrical Manager-I'm sorry, but
there's no place for you in this drama;
every part has been taken.
Egotistical Actor-Never mind that.
I'll create my part-Puck.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-11
Nnuxht but Abuse.

"They all said would make splen-
did candidate"
"Well1"
$50 / became a candidate"
again well?"
"And now look what they say about
me!"-Louisville Courier-Journal.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-11
Waste Of Feed.

Wherever cattle or hogs are feo
there Is a great waste in valuable feed
resulting from the feeding Of too much
corn, or feeding corn out of balance
and proportion to protein or nitrogen
GUS food. The time has come in the
high price of corn to call halt to this
wasteful method Of feeding. To fully
utilize feed proper digestion must go
on, and when corn is fed out of bal
ance with nitrogenous foods 1t Is not
all digested and assimilated. These
are very important facts, now that
corn Is high in price and Is likely to
stay so. What, then, is the food that
must take the place of part of the corn
fed in making pork? That Is the
question that should be- carefully
studied and needed by farmers. Cheap
er production through more econom.
ical use of our feeds Is an important
matter and must be so recognized
sooner or later by our farmers.-Kan
sas Farmer.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-02-11

Al O man grows older. snow loses
most OF the beauty 1t formerly
possessed. and IL merely cold. and
slippery. and good for the wheat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-06
FIRE DRIVES PATIENTS
INTO. W|NTRY NIGHT
insane Asylum of the Manitoba
Government, Near Brandon,
Burned to the Ground.

BRANDON. Manitoba. November 81
The insane asylum of the Manitoba gov
eminent was burned to the ground here
Friday evening, causing a loss of $2-o.-
OO0. but all the inmates were rescued In
safety. One of the woman patients,
playing with matches she had secured
in the kitchen, was responsible for the
fire.
There were 600 patients in the asylum
at the time. and great difficulty was ex-
perienced i'm getting them out. Some
were severely injured and others
badly chilled in the cold, as snow
storm was raging and they were with
out shelter.
The pitiabe crowd stood around in the
snow, their scant garments blown around
their frail bodies by the cold wind. The
hospital staff, assisted by the military
and citizens of the town finally found
shelter for them in stables. outhouses and
other buildings.
Arrangements were at once made TO
fit up the armory and winter fair build
ings for temporary quarters, but the
problem of looking after the patients
during the winter Is a serious one. as the
ASYLUM at Selkirk is already filled.
The asylum here was mile and ,
half from the city and the fire was be-
yond control before the department ar
rived
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-06
WIFE CONVICTED OF MURDER.
Found Guilty Of Killing Husband
and Gets a Life Sentence.

WACO, Tex, November 3.-Mrs. Minnie
Lee Streight. charged with the murder
Of her husband. T. f. Streight. at Nc
Gregor. Tex, June IS last, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree in
the fourth district court here today. Her
punishment was fixed at life imprison-
ment
The defendant, who was lying on a cot.
which she had been forced to occupy for
several weeks. burst into tears when the
verdict was announced. but did not utter
q word. Mr.. Streight. one of the best
known newspaper men in the state, was
shot in the forehead with a pistol and
killed about midnight. June Is. His wife
admitted the killing but said Streight. as
q result of domestic troubles. had at
tempted to cut her with a razor. A new
trial will be asked for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-06
LIGHT INFANTRY TO DRILL.
Arrangements for Entertaining
Alexandria Company at Leesburg.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEESBCRG, Va, November 5.-Ar-
rangements are being made by the Of
ncers of the Leesburg military company
to serve supper to the Alexandria Light
Infantry after their instruction drill for
the benefit of the local company next
Monday evening. The visiting company
will drill on the streets Of Leesburg and
return to Alexandria on a special train
that evening.
The company will be in charge Of Capt.
Frank Slaymaker and Lieuts. Carroll
and Arthur Herbert. Maj. James E.
King and his staff officer, Lieut.. Lewis
Duffey, will also be present, and 1t Is
probable that the officers of the Fred
ericksburg and Charlottesville compa
mics, which are attached to the same
battalion, will also make arrangements
TO attend. A twelve-piece band will ac-
company the Alexandria troops.
William Cornell of Fairfax and Miss
Virginia Redmond of Loudoun were mar
ried in Leesburg Thursday. Rev. ]. HI.
Wiltshire officiating.
Ernest r. Boyer. state lecturer of the
knights of Pythias, visited Loudoun
Lodge No. 1Oi, at Lovettsville Wednes-
day night and delivered an address on
'Pythianism."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-06
GIRL SLAYER RELEASED.
Killed Man Who Lured Her From
Her Home to San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, November .
Effie Wilson. the sixteen-year-old Texas
girl who stands self-accused of the kill
ing of Guido Varsi. who brought her
from her San Antonio home to the night
life of this city, was ordered released
today.
When Police Judge Conlan heard her
story several prominent San Francisco
women begged that he show clemency.
Judge Conlan released her in their Gus
tody without bond and said she should
20 back to her mother, accompanied by
Mrs Seaton. wife of former Judge.
I'm the name of the law | arrest this
girl for murder cried the attorney for
VarSis relatives.
Judge Conlan rebuked him and directed
Mrs Seaton to take charge of the pris-
oner. The attorney secured a new war
rant. but no Judge would sign 1t nor
officer serve ii.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-06
Wireless President Appeals.

An appeal from the decision of the New
York federal courts. holding President
Christopher c. Wilson guilty of con-
tempt of court. for not producing certain
books of the United Wireless Telegraph
Company for examination by the grand
Jury. has been In the Supreme Court of
the United States.
Wilson also appealed from the action
OF the lower court in refusing to release
him on habeas corpus proceedings from
the custody of the United States marshal
from imprisonment for contempt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-06
SHOWS TARDY HONESTY.
Connecticut Man Sends a Dime for
Government Conscience Fund

Me. too is all the explanation given
by some one at Bridgewater, Conn.,. for
sending to Postmaster General Hitch
cock a new dime, with a recent news
paper clipping telling the story of the
California man who sent a dime for
the conscience fund, because years ago
he had used postage stamps which had
been used before. but not Cancelled
. The dime will 20 to the conscience
fund In the United States Treasury
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-06
School Principal Perishes in Fire.

GAINESVILLE, Ga, November 5.-Fire
yesterday destroyed the dOrmitory Of the
school at Concord. in the western part
OF Pike county. this state, and Prof.
Folkston. principal. was burned to death.
No other lives were lost. 1t is said that
the principal was tying to save his IL
brary. and the way OF escape was cut of
before he knew his danger. The charred
yemains were recovered in the afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-06
PROBING JAIL DELIVERY.
Grand Jury Investigating Mob's
Rescue of Moore.

LYNCHBURG. Va. November a
special grand jury has been summoned to
meet Wednesday to investigate the lib
Grafton of John Moore. condemned MUIR
derer. from the Nelson county jail by a
mob two weeks ago.
The investigation will probably last a
week.
The Livingston Jail was stormed by a
mob made up OF mountainaers, who. pre-
sumabiy. were friends of the prisoner.
Moore Is supposed 10 be n hiding in the
Virginia mountains
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-06
-.-that compares with
any Of the high.priced
MAGAZINE Advertised
Cabinets.

A complete Kitchen Cabinet, with
glass door; china case at top; fitting
bins and dust and mouse proof draw
ers for all kitchen supplies. All work
ing surfaces are finished in nickeled
aluminium.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-06
With Any Nationally
Advertised High.priced
Range in the Market.

1hs is the pest Dullt ana most de-
pendable Range we have ever Of
fered. The DOMESTIC" Range is
made by the Lincoln Stove and Range
Company. whose products stand I'M
rivaled in this country. This is a
full size Domestic" Range-finest
cast steel construction, deliberately
nickel trimmed, large oven. upper
warming closet and shelf and Du-
pick CRATE. Attachments can be fur
nished for instantaneous hot-water
heater, also water back. Every DO
MESTIC' Range sold is giving per-
feet SafiSfacf iop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-06

A bed combina-
ton t h a t sur
passes any value
ever offered. 1t
consists of one
New Design CO.
lonial Iron Bed,
like cut. In white
and gold, blue
and gold or green
and gold; o n e
Cotton-top NJ a t.
tress and on e
W owe N w | r e
Spring-all for the
price of the bed
$7.75.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-03-11
Regular packages 10c. and Theoretically
sealed tins for hot climates. Sc

meant sure death to the eggs, The
brown tail moth has very different
habits. They MAKE their nest by twist
ldg or folding full sized leaves around
themselves and winter over as very
small caterpiIlars. They open this
web and are ready and right on the job
when the nrst leaves open In the sprisg.
The Gypsy moth comes from the eggs
little later and il there Is any foliage
left from the browntai II 10 sure to be
destroyed by the gypsy moth. We
think we have big spraying machines
in West Virginia but If we ever get
these pests we will have to get still
bigger, The United States govern
ment employees were using spraying
machines resembling small fire en-
gines. They use 10 H. p. gasoline
engine to drive the pump and use
brass nczzle with a IA inch hole in it
and throw a solid stream of arsenate
of lead clear over the tops of the forest
trees.
l hope my fellow fruit growers will
not call me an alarmist, but in my
opinion, if we combine all the pests
that the West Virginia fruit growers
have up to the present time they are as
nothing com pared with the browntail
and gypsy moths which devour every
kind of tree throughout the entire
growing season, and can only oe held
in check by keeping the foliage cover
cd with an arsenical poison through
cut the entire growing season. Near
~ all Of our orchard pests confine them
selves to the orchards but gypsy and
browntail moths devour everything
that bears either leaf, flower or fruit.
ID. Gold Miller,
Inwood, w. Va.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-03-11
For Sale

Wishing to retire from business
Will sell my residence and store-he1se
property located on the corner of North
Queen Street and Hess avenue, Mar.
tensburg w. Va, at private sale on
lioeral terms. These buildings are new
and built of brick with slate roofs,
large and lcommodious a desirable
place to live and a splendid location
for business.
The storeroom is equipped with al
modern appliances, splendid large
elevator from cellar to attic, electric
lights and every convenience for do
ing business. No better business stand
in the town and large and good pay
ing business already established.
The dwelling is m odern in every re-
spect, II rooms with thoroughly
equipped bathroom, hot and cold
water, electric lights, buildings are
heated with fine steam apparatus, ex-
cellent cellar. under the whole. OF both
buildings, cemented SO that no mice
or rats can annoy. Fine large stable,
with corn crib, double buggy shed,
good garden, summer kitchen and all
necessary outbuildings. Call and see
for yourself.
If n. I. Hess.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-03-11

An ordinary mill will use three or
four thousand dollars worth of press
cloth IL year. Parenthetically it may
be stated that this press cloth is also
used linseed, rape seed and castor bean
mills. The price in England is 3S
cents, the duty is 80 cents, and the
American mills sell at 81 cents, The
duty, therefore, is about 1876 per cent OF
the foreign selling price, and the only
fact advanced by the press cloth man
ufacturers before congress was that be-
cause they didn't add the full s. cents
to the English price and ask So cents a
pound as they might, the tarlf ought
to be maintained. Curious reasoning,
Of course, to contend that because they
didn't need that much tariff it ought
to be retained. Strong representations
were made to the ways and means
ommittee for reduction OF the duty
that would enable the users OF press
cloth to break the combination OF the
makers, but because it had been agreed
upon by the wool manufacturers ana
the woolgrowers that the wool SEIZED :
ule should be untouched, no redress
was given, and the Gotten seed men
will continue to pay the heavy tax
easily calculated from the statements
made above.
In England better press cloth sells
for 80 cents a pound. When the Ding
ley bill was passed the cotton seed OH
manufacturers supposed that this ciotn
would come In under section 43l, whlcn
levied a duty of twenty cents square
yard, or about cents, on "hair press
cleth." But the appraisers ana the
courts decided that this was mistake
that it meant horse hair,and that CAM
epshair cloth came in under paragraph
1893, which says that "whenevsr In any
schedule of this act the wordi'weof is
used in connection Witha manu1actur-
ed article of which 1t is component
material, it shall be held to iaclue wool
or hair Of the sheep, camel, goat, al
paca or other animal" This was in
serted, it is presumed, to protect the
theory that if cancels hair is used for
something for which WOO may be
used the law ought to compel through
the tariff the employment OF weol In
stead of the hair of the foregn-born
and bred animals. Bnt experiment has
shown that for press cloth wool is
unsuitable.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-03-11

An excellent illustration of the tax
ing methods of the tariff may be CLEAN.
ed from an inquiry into the press cloth
schedule. Press cloth il used very
largely by the Gotten seed crushing
mills Of the country. These number
500 and are largely located in the
south. The industry is large one, rep
fesenting about $50, 100000 in capital,
employing $4,000 persons and pays out
about $25 100000 year in wages. II
utilizes az raw material about four
and half million tons of cotton seed
that formerly Went to waste, and year
Iy adds about 100000, 300 to the ma
terial wealth of the country. An i'm
portrait item in the cost OF manufac-
ture 10 the cloth from which is m ada
the wrappers which are used to con-
tain the cotton seed while the oil il be-
ing extracted through hydraulic pres
sure. These are called pressed cloths
and most of them is made from camel's
hair, which long experiment has
proved to be the best fitted for the pur-
pose.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-03-11
PUBLIC SALE
of valuable
Real and Personal Property

,.,dipg 70 move 70 tows WI, set .tatson I
fe h,r.st OF Middleway, miiss sou.n-
~ Souin ., aiii ali nay personal property
resl estate on a., ,o,A
Monday, March a. 1919
- mat is to say, my farm con-
'' Oh Acre. and Rood
the road leading from hidgeway 10
nnh r r.sk and adjoiaing the lands OF ..
tquen cIsoh -. ara ntham lAnd And others.
Nv hlllIVs, absut two miles from hioge-
8 anu "a. ,+.tisn on the q. v. THIS land is
SreYed by
s,o4e,.nd in good sonditien line
n Two t w. Midway between the two houses
"a earn crib and other buiiolsgs anu
,onc,d 2fse gardens ana apeu'
s Acres of Timber
Terms of Real Estate
lam and the balance to suit the
pne-sulliSs .tsrr.d paymests 10 be evidenced
! eI t ne or netes Of the purchaser - pear
Iee Ao,I 3 " n-r cent and To be secured by
III ~ tru.t on the properly SOLD.
Personal Property
u,ad Horses and Colts
,aod family mare In foal BY an English
~ sorse and will work any where nltehed.
! 10, NY -. aot scare at automobiles or the
lyeT, aoes az a We wear OLE perfectly safe for
flssa 10 arrive: Billy, heavy craft Engllshshlre
w. 'e"'' >t;Iob Claws
2 GoOu Miioi S""'
.,.i,, re-fresh by day OF rale and the other
l,,e spring.
40 GOOD Clilchehs
/ 49,. q gob,prAnd hens. 81 stands of
lIRsS . 1o5 Iisv 100 bundles fodder, 1920 #
es, oue and framing.
Pc P'"iiA '''' I.Io,,orts
lmplelheh'9
"A o,rirg WAGON. carriage, good as new;
S;l ~ and one open top buggy, road cart.
llus " Ennire cultivator one wooden