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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02

which 1t is claimed makes the
defenses OF New York harbor impreg.
nable. No hostile ship of even the
most advanced type can now approach
within ten miles Of Sandy Hook with
out danger Of being sent to the bot
tom by single she'll.
1t Is the recent perfection Of "Ex-
plosive D" that has placed in the pos
session Of the government a weapon
FAR superior to joveite. nitroglycerine,
melanite or the shimose that Japan
used against the Notifications Of Port
Arthur. 1t is startlingly destructive
In Its effects and yet 30 safe in the
handling that accidents to gunners
are unknown.
To Col. Beverly W. Dunn Of the
ordnance department Of the army, and
at present chairman of the American
Railway association. belongs the dis
tinction Of inventing the wonderful
agent Of destruction. He is the In
ventor of "dunnite" and Explosive
D" is his improvement on the original
invention. He has given 1t freely to
the government.
Hudson Maxim, the inventor, made
this statement the other day:
"The United States government
owns and controls a brand-new ex
plosive which will prove a revelation
in warfare and will do most every
thing except perhaps blow the white
crust of the top Of the earth"
In Washington experts Of the ord
nance corps were asked:
"Why need the United States feal
war with any nation?"
1--WE fear no one!" was the answer
Then the experts set forth Just how
the explosive could be used, how dan
gerous 1t Is and, in a measure, how Il
is made. They would not go into the
latter very deeply. because that is the
governments secret.
ITO show what 1t would do II uset
in the forts about New York agains
an enemy's ships" said an ordnance
expert, picture modern dread
nought Of the North Dakota type ter
miles at sea steaming toward Sand,
Hook. Then glance toward the Hool
and see burst of flame from one O
the big fourteen-inch guns and heav!
projectile go plunging through space
direct for the waterline of the dread
nought.
"The dreadnought suddenly stops
trembles and settles. In minute 1
disappears, leaving struggling men II
the water. One shot Of this might.
explosive has sent $10,000,000 wortl
Of steel and the finest workmanship
to the bottom Of the sea, and with
one thousand officers and men.
1T Is almost inconceivable, and ye
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
OPEN, BRAzEN CONFESSION
Ono Man Finds the Game Of Chess
Too Much for Him and
Admits II.

The chessboards which are occasion.
ally given to us by our benevolent
friends and relations are invariably Of
the very useful type. They are studded
with spikes 30 that no piece can be re-
moved fortuitiously from its own sep
arate square. When people give us a
chessboard they seem to think that we
are likely to play chess more often
s,Ea not 90 the deck Of q ship In a
hurricane. They picture US tossed
this way and that by waves which run
mountains high. They feel that
though We may be physically incom.
moded by the fury of the tempest, the
game Of chess in which We are en-
gagged will be undisturbed. They are
right Nothing short of a volcanic
eruption Immediately beneath our feet
would cause the dislodation Of the ar
rangements Of pieces on these presen.
tation boards
Personally, however, we have not
played chess at all for sometime. Our
knowledge Of the game stopped short
ly after we mastered the various
moves Of the various pieces. Every
now and then we get a wild longing
to rival those experts who win twenty.
seven games blindfold simultaneously
while playing. "The Lost Chord" on
the banjo. But our ambition general.
ly fades away when we get out one
of our chessboards and realize that we
cannot make full use Of its capabilities
unless we go to the Bay Of Biscay on
a rough day. Besides. we once suf'
fered violent diseouragement We
were playing with an opponent who
also was no fiier, and each thought
II was the others move. We sat wait
ing for each other to move for three
quarters of an hour; until. in fact
some casual bystander mentioned that
there was time limit in such cases
That incident has soured US perma
nently.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
Girl Pupil 10 Hypnotlzsd.

Cincinnati, Ohio-Miss Ida Isham,
O teacher in the Hyde Park school, or
dered her class to play a sleeping
game and all her pupils closed their
eyes as II asleep. A moment later
she called the class to awake. All
the children promptly obeyed except
Peggy" Gordon. The child was car
ried to an anteroom. where unsuccess-
full efforts for two hours were made to
awaken her. Finally the mother ap-
peared and by crying Awake" sever
al times aroused her. Physicians
pronounce II an unusual case.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
BIG FIRMS EvADE TAX LAWS
Deceive the United States In Salary
Returns-office Boys at
$4,000 Year.

Denver, Colo.-Somewhere In Den
yer there are several-maybe a score
of office boys who are drawing fabu-
lous salaries for opening mail and
running errands. The boys don't
know that they are drawing these sal.
aries of $4,000 or $4,000, or even $10,.
600 year, but they are just the same.
But 1t is only In the reports of an.
nual net incomes that are being made
to the United States internal revenue
officers by Denver corporations that
these salaries appear.
Under corporation tax law salaries
are deducted from the net total sum
taxable. Revenue officers say the total
of salaries this year as shown by the
returns has taken an enormous Jump
II some Of the reports are true, they
say, there are many firms In Denver
who are giving away money every day
Then there are salaries listed for
employees now living in three-room
fats that, If really paid. would enable
them to live In mansions.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02

1t appears to be true, for with the dis
covery made It only remains that our
men should have marAsmanship-and
we have that"
There are enough shells loaded with
Explosive D" stored in the magazines
Of Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook, Fort
Hamilton and Fort Wadsworth to pre-
vent the city Of New York and the
surrounding country from being dam
aged one iota by the combined fleets
of the powers Of Europe.
The explosive is compound Of
which picric acid Is the base. In a
projectile used in a twelve-inch gun
Of the army or navy. and weighing
1,04e pounds, there are sixty-fiv
pounds of the explosive. That Is as
near to the nature Of the Ingredients
Of the compound as any but the ex.
perts are allowed to get.
The Dunn explosive Is fired by a
time fuse and will not explode on con.
tact. But when 1t does explode its
powers are almost supernatural.
At Sandy Hook, for one Of the Sc
cret tests, the government built a
large compartment of steel armor
plate several inches in thickness. In
front of the compartment facing the
gun was sheet of armor plate 11A
inches thick. The regulation 12-inch
gun was used and the projectile, con.
tanning sixty-flve pounds of Explosive
D, fred with an ordinary charge OF
smokeless powder. 1t went through
the armor plate into the compartment
and exploded. Great holes were torn
In the steel box on all sides and
demonstrated that had 1t been shir
1t would have gone to the bottom with
all on board
Among the other tests made was
that Of shells ffed from field pieces
Into an embankment to determine
what could be done to an enemy's en-
trenchments. One shell went into an
embankment several feet and explod
ed In half a second. There was 9
great hole in the earth. Had It beer
a real entrenchment with men behind
1t the entrenchment and every Twins
thing in It would have been destroyed
Nothing resists the terrible force o.
Explosive d. 1t tears through iror
and steel as revolver shot goes
through a tin can. Penetrating the
deck Of a vessel. 1t would explode OF
the second deck. blowing out the side.
and driving the second deck dowI
through the bottom.
Hereafter all torpedoes of the nav
are to be charged with Explosive D
and they will do fearful work. Thi!
secret, worked over for years by {
thoughtful man, is known to but foul
officers Of the government So valu
able is 1t considered the government
does not think 1t best to let the in
gradients of the compound be know
to more than that number.
All the nations Of the earth hav'
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
Head ache

"My father has been sufferer from sick
headache for the last twenty five years and
never found any relief until he began
taking your Cascarets. Since he has
begun taking Cascarets he has never had
the headache. They have entirely cured
him. Cascarets do what you recommend
them to do. will give you the privilege
of using his name. "-E. M. Dickson,
II2o Resiner St.. W. indianapolis, Ind.
Pleasant Palatable. Potent Taste Good.
Do Good Never Sicken Weaken or Gripe
10c. 25c 60c. Never sold In bulk The gem
uine tablet stamped G C. Guaranteed 10
cure your money back
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
InvIncible Modesty.

Modesty was prominent feature
in tho character Of the eminent physi.
cist, J. Willard Gibbs, for many years
professor Of mathematical physics at
Yale. He had just appreciation OF
the value OF his own discoveries, says
the author of the biographical sketch
Of Professor Gibbs contained in
Leading American Men Of Science,
but shrank from any form of praise
or publicity.
In 1901 tho Copley medal Of the
Royal society Of London, which ia
awarded for the most important sci
entifio vA.L A~nA in any country. was
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
Ice Good for Hair.

Explorers say that the frigid zones
give immunity from common colds.
But no recent explorer seems to have
mentioned the old belief that long 80
1ourns among the ice are good for the
hair. This was the Arm conviction Of
whaling shippers in the days when
Dundee was the port for the Arctic.
1t was said that even the baldest Of
seamen contrived to grow a passable
crop Of hair before returning.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02

weighed one-twenty-eighth Of an ounce.
The messages could, of course, be read
with microscope, without the neces.
sity Of rephotographing and enlarging.
Under favorable conditions, and for
comparatively short distances, pigeons
have carried as much as three-quar'
ters Of an ounce. Using the photo-re-
duction method, 1t would therefore be
possible for single bird to carry mes
sages equal in words to no fewer than
one hundred and twenty ordinary vol
umes.-Harpers Weekly.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
A Hard Road to Travel.

A drunken man, whom friend was
trying to bring to his home some
miles away, was constantly crossing
from one side of the road to the other,
so his friend said to him: Come on,
Pat, come on; tho road is long" Il
know it is long," said Pat; but it
isn't the length of 1t, but the breadth
Of 1t that's killing me."-Le Fann's
"Irish L ifen
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
Welsh Rabbit Recipe.

you are a great success with q
chatting dish." said the admiring guest.
Tell us how you manage it," TITS
very simple" replied Mr.. Crosslots.
"You take everything your wife has
set out on the table for you and put
It into the chatting dish. Then you
light the alcohol lamp underneath and
with large spoon stir the mixture
vigorously until your wife tells you to
STOP"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02

been watching TIE experiments with
Explosive d and have been expert
menting with high explosives, but
there Is not anything in the world at
present that represents such tremen-
dous power as does this thing which
quiet army officer living In Bay
Shore, L. l., has been developing in
his laboratories and at the Sandy
Hook experiment grounds.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
Careless Girl.

What has become of that pretty
French maid who was employed by
Mrs. Flubber?
"She was discharged long ago."
What was the trouble?"
why, she actually took Mrs. Flub.
ber's precious Fido out motoring one
cold day without his blanket"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
Ahead Of OptlmIst.

The man who accepts calamity
when 1t hits him as 30 much necessary
medicine administered for his own
good, and makes no ugly face when
swallowing defeat, even II he admits
1t, Is not to be classed as pessimist.
Such man is far ahead Of the optim-
LIST who insists he never had anything
handed him and fools himself. as he
often does others.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02

a nd s o nervous i
could n t do any
thing. The doctors
treated me for diff
ferent things b u t
did me no good. I
got so bad that 1
could not sleep day
or night. While in
this condition l read
of Lydia +. Pink
hams V e ge t a BILE
G o m po un d, and
began it's use and
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
The Successful Men.

Perhaps 1t is more than true that
half of the great college buildings in
the land are splendid gifts from "Vil.
lage Chumps," who broke away from
home because they could not find a
chance to expand or express them.
selves In their native two-by-four
town. and never, or hardly ever aft
er. got the first ghost of a show or
the spare time to acquire an educa.
ton.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
TRY MURINE EYE REMEDY

for Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes
and Granulated Eyelids. Murine Doesn't
Smart-Soothes Eye Pain. Druggists
Sell Murine Eye Remedy, Liquid, Csc,
50c, $1.0O Murine Eye Salve in
Aseptic Tubes, 25c, $1.O0. Eye Books
and Eye Advice Free by Mail.
Murine Eye Remedy Co, Chicago.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
To Clean GIovea.

A mixture of finely powdered. full.
ers earth and alum Is excellent for
cleaning white gloves. 1t should be
rubbed in well, then brushed off, and
the gloves sprinkled with dry bran
and whiting
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
A Poor Job,

Yes, SIR" said the great financier.
proudly, as he flicked the ash from hia
18-penny cigar, Il am the architect Of
my own fortune" Well" rejoined the
friendly critic. "all I've got to say is
that It's lucky thing for you there
we're no building inspectors around
when you were constructing it"-E1
change
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
100
YEARS
OLD
lY3IIIS
Waste Land Grows Rubber.

Wide reaches of waste land on the
island Of Singapore are now being set
out in rubber plants, which seem to
do well. In Malacca there were for
merly square miles Of land covered
with lalang. the hiding place of tigers
and other big game, which have been
transformed into fine rubber planta.
ttons
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
QeceptlYe.

"Do you see that quiet man over
there in the corner by himself"
"Yes. He looks SO meek, he might
be heartbroken teacher of Latin"
,"On the contrary, for years he has
played desperate parts in melodrama. I"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
She Hasn't Changed.

Emancipated woman Is nothing
more than human; think that you
may safely set that down. A woman
could mention wouldn't go to the
convention because she didn't have q
stylish gown.-Washingt Herald.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
Wanted Il Settled.

There's one thing I never could
understand" her husband began, but
he got no farther, for she interrupted
him to ask:
(Which one. your first wife or me?~
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02

given to Mr.. Gibbs. He deprecated
the congratulations Of his friends who
had read the announcement.
Better not say anything about it."
he urged. Very likely 1t is an er.
ror."-Youth's Companion.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02

Flies ard Mosquitoes carry disease
germs, especially Malaria, Chill and Fe-
ard Oil on the insect bite will take out all
the poison. Stops that itch, to.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
Out for the Dust.

"How fast are we going, John?"
asked the lady Of her imported chauf.
feur as she strove to wipe the dust
from her eyes.
DIRTY miles hour, man," replied
the truthful John.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
Too much.

Are they ultra7"
Ne plus"
Surely, they don't pay as they got"
"Pshaw! You are looking for SUI
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02

DR.. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar
coated, easy to take as candy, regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bow,
els and cure constipation.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02
AFTER
I YEARS
SUFFERING
| Was Cured by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound

Waurika, Okla.-'I had female trou-
bles for seven years, was all run down,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02

wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for advice. In
a short time l had gained my average
weight and am now strong and WE'LL"
Mrs. SALLIE STEVENS, r. +. D., No.
3, Box 81, Waurika, Okla.
Another Grateful Woman.
Huntington, Mass.-"I was in ner-
vous, run down condition and for three
years could find no help.
Il owe my present good health to
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and Blood Purifier which l be-
ieve saved my life.
"My doctor knows what helped me
and does not say one word against it,"
Mrs. MARI JANETTE BATES, Box
134, Huntington, Mass.
Because your case is difficult one,
doctors having done you no good, do
not continue to suffer without giving
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound trial. 1t surely has cured
many cases Of female ills, such as in
fiammation, liberation, displacements.
fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic
pains, backache, that bearing-down
feeling, and nervous prostration.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-02

~ HE United States government
Is now the sole owner Of an ex-
piosive which 10 ths most pow
\ erful in the world and one
which II is claimed makes the
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05
5z5E9s

the best believe that the knowledge you have Of
our religion viii make you better and broader Mos
lens. Religion is for man. not man for religion, and
we want you to have the training which will make
each of you the best man. whether he be Christian
Moslem."
Today the MOhammedan students attending the
services look upon them largely educational, and
they study the Bible such.
The influence of colleges like this goes far and
wide. The students come from villages all the
Turkish empire and from those of India and Persia as
well. Going home, each forms little hotbed for the
growth of Independent thought, and civilized ideas
spread in other ways. One of the great of such
distribution is the annual pilgrimage TO Mecca which
is attended by about half million of Mohammedans
from all parts of the orient. At that time Mecca be-
comes great camp meeting or bush meeting, such
farmers have in Virginia The people together
and gossip. They discuss the crops and ask
other how they getting along Hassan Ali of
Egypt says to Mohammed of Turkey: How is bust
ness? Are you making money, and how does your
government treat you?" MOhammed replies that the
Turks taxed to death, but they hope for much
under the sultan. Thereupon Hassan says that
the English have cut down the taxes and that the
church has plenty of money i'm its treasury. He tells
how he has been able to send his boy to college and
that he hopes he will day be official. The
Turk thereupon longs for better government. At
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05
The American COLLEGE, IN po,,,,,

visited the college at Assiout not long apo i -
lui TO overlooking and notwithstanding the new struc
lure Just completed it needs more money and mora
buildings 1t has greatprestige throughout the NiIa
valley and its efficiency with little money cou1d bh
easily doubled The college is said to give a better
education than the government institutions and tba
AT the lowest possible cost. The tuition is nominal
FOR the poorest scholars it is only about 81 session
IN money and the ordinary is about $40 a wear
Inc cost OF the education with the taste NJ tho
students These of all classes from the sons M
the poorest feah to the highest pasha and richest
merchant of the Nile valley. There are three kinds
OF accommodations the of which ranges from s35
year upward The wealthy Egyptian boy can have
MS own room or he can live four in a room He can
nave good table or at less cost can be boarded so
mat ne has meat three four times a week On the
other hand he can work his way through college bring
ing his own food and buying vegetables and fish at
very low cost Many OF the boys bring their bread
from home, IL is made Of ground corn or milIet and
baked IN cakes an inch thick These cakes are
until they are as hard stone in which shane they
VIII Keep through the term Before going in to meal
the students dip their bread buckets of water set
out for the purpose and when soft carry il with tbam
I'm to the table.
The Assiout institution has its graduates in ali the
government departments Of Egypt. They are among
the leading merchants OF the country and every town
has numbers of them. Many Copts and not a few
are Mohammedans. / told that there are more
than $4,000 boys now being educated in the United
Presbyterian schools and colleges
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05
I The Censorship Of the Turks.

There is no doubt but that the Americans are SEN
sbe in preferrng the protection of Uncle Sam that
of the sultan Conditions bound to be unsettled
in this part of the world for years come. There
will be revolutions and counterrevoutons before the
Turks come down to solid substantial, modern gov
eminent; and no one tell when the old condi-
ons of censorship may not be resumed AS it is now
the students read what books they like there
is little trouble to the newspapers. They can go
where they please without passports, and the
government is doing all it to promote edu-
cation.
1t far different under the regime of Abdul
Hamid. In his time every newspaper was carefully
looked over and all sentences Objectionable
to the governmental critics out This was so
of coming in through the mail as of the
native papers. Here in Beirut Sunday weekly is
published devoted largely to the life and sayings of
our Savior. The objected it, saying, The
paper is bad One for in it they kill King Jews
every week. This might suggest the assassination of
the sultan, and we cannot permit it," Dr. Bliss the
president of the college at Beirut not long ago i'm
ported an old copy of Shakespeare 1t kept at
the customs house, the censor Directing. Said the
latter: Shakespeare is bad book for the Turks 1t
has in it the story of a named Macbeth who killed
king, 1t would be a bad example for US"
Dr. Bliss succeeded in getting his Shakespeare in
by saying he had another copy book which
it already in the country could not be taken
out, and he would be glad to trade this for the new
copy. The censor consented, and he accepted the
Shakespeare which cost 81 and admitted fine old
edition instead.
At another time some New Testaments sent TO Con-
stantinople held back by of the censors be-
of the Episte of Paul to the Galatians Gaata
of the divisions of Constantinople the censor
asked: who is this Paul and why is he writing
to our people in Galata?" He was, with difficulty
persuaded that St Paul dead and that his letter
was not the part OF a plot. I told that chemis
try kept because a objected to the
term H-O saying that 1t seemed TO that Hamid
II Cthe sultan, Abdul Hamid) amounted to nothing.