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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-12-12
Competing Consumers,

you used to say competition is the
life Of trade"
80 It is" replied Mr.. Cumrox, "only
instead of competing to sell things,
the idea now is to corner 'em up and
get people competing for a chance to
buy."-Washington Star.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-12-12
A Failure.

First Small Boy-Is your sister any
good>at playing ball?
Second Small Boy-Naw. She can't
throw anything but f1t. or catch any.
thing but beau.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-12-12
A Friendly Clock.

Look and see II the clock is rum
ming. dear" said grandma to small
Sadie.
mo. it's standing still, grandma," /"
reported Sadie, but it's wagging its
tail"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-12-12
co.operation Among Animals.

Co-operation Among Animals.
Cooperation is almost universal In
the animal world. Wolves often hunt
in relays or in couples. When at
tackled. cattle and horses form cir
Gle. Beavers always work in COM
panies when building their dams.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-12-12
It's Nature.

isn't 1t dreadful that the English
sufiragettes commit so much arson?"
"Yes. indeed; It Is q burning
shama-s
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-12-12

OF the 343 women patients admitted
to Middlesex County (England) asy.
lums in the last year, 293 were house
wives or domestic servants.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-12-12

Only 73 in 1000 letters delivered In
the United Kingdom come from
abroad.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-12-12

II NCLE SANS blue jacketed
sailor men, to the number of
about eight thousand, are go
y ing on a pleasure tour. The
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20

ments made were not so largely of the sob sister
kind and if the assertions OF the presumed writers
tended either to teach youth the horrors to be
avoided, or could in any way lead to an improve.
ment in the condition of any unfortunate women,
there might be some excuse reason for printing
them.
But the whole tendency of the series is toward
degeneracv, toward Turing the weak and inhrm Of
purpose into following the very courses which the
articles, if they may be presumed to have worthy
purpose, are supposed to reprobate.
The Santa Cruz News, among the papers of the
state which are denouncing San Francisco for toll
Grating such publications, refers to the articles as
a school of immortality.
The name is pat and it fits.
When one of the writers says she is beautiful
college girl OF a. and lives in the best residential
part of this city has "seven trunks of beautiful
wearing apparel and $500 in money! and when
another says that last week she made "a total Of
$158" how can any expect that the effect of
such publications can be other than to induce many
of the weak the vain, the lovers of fine clothes and
of easy money to be led to embrace the same life ]?
No matter what suffering and disease the writer's
may say they have undergone the weak will say
to themselves that they can secure the money and
avoid the consequences.
They do not realize that it is as true today in
San Francisco as it was when the Apostle Paul
wrote his epistle to the Romans and said
Let not sn therefore, reign in your mortal
body that you should obey it in the lusts there
of. Neither yield ye your members as instru-
ments of unrighteousness unto sin
for the wages of sin is death"
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
LOBBY GOSSIP
James Woods Boosts San Francisc

~ i
James Woods. manager of the st.
Francis hotel. who is in New York city
at the present time, has not forgotten
San Francisco, as is demonstrated by
an interesting interview with him pub
lished in the New York Sun. Mr..
Woods is quoted as saying:
II have not been here In four years,
but If I were blindfolded and suddenly
dropped down I would know I was in
New York before any one could get the
changes going on here all the time,
there is something about the city that
one who has lived here can not forget.
II am on near vacation and trying
to forget hotels, but will say that San
Francisco has more of them than any
city in the world according to its popu-
lation. We are getting ready for the
1915 exposition, which will open in a
year and half. and can tell you that
everything is going along smoothly. AT
mayor, James Rolph Jr., In the interest
of the Portola celebration to be held in
October, to mark the four hundredth
anniversary of the discovery of the
Pacific ocean by Balboa and the one
hundred and forty fourth anniversary
of the discovery of San Francisco bay
by Portola. We will have many promi
nent visitors with us during the Por-
tola celebration, including Admiral
George Dewey
During his stay in New York Mr..
Woods will spend about quarter of
million dollars in furnishings for the
new $1,0oo.0O0 wing of the st. Francis,
which is now in the course of construc-
tiOn
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20

Editor Call: In your issue Of
Tuesday, July 18th, there appears an
article, profusely illustrated. an
nouncing a Sunday festival" to be
held under the auspices. or approval,
of the so called Scottish "clans and
societies" of the bay cities. The arti-
Gle. in part, reads as follows:g "Remi-
niscences of old Ireland and bonny
Scotland will be freshened and
swapped at a big outdoor fiesta, to be
held on Sunday, July goth, in Shell
Mound park All the Gaelic
and Scottish clans in the bay cities are
planning to attend. Pastimes familiar
to the sons and daughters of the
Emerald isle and the land of the
heather will be among the features"
Now, whatever may be considered
as the pastimes of old Ireland do
not know, but the pastimes of Scot
land my beloved land. are the pas
which are yet unknown to me shall
have to be invented. Therefore / beg
to make the following comments on
this so called Scottish festival" and,
through the medium of this paper, a
word of explanation to any who may
not know what the Sunday 'pastimes"
of Scotland actually are.
l would, in the first place, say that
no pastime can possibly be called
Scottish" that savors in any way
of Sabbath desecration. Ordinarily
Scotland is proud of her sons and
daughters "toiling beyond the seas
but her so called sons and daughters,
who seem to take pleasure in desc
Grating the Lords day, the observance
of which is and has been the bedrock
of Scotland's greatness. lies beneath
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
THE Seattle Riot
The Seattle riot Sc

\ The Seattle riot seems to have been the re-
suit of a combination of too much potlatch
celebration, ant-red flag speech falsely attrib-
uted to Secretary Daniels political agitation by one
newspaper against the mayor and the natural in
clination of soldiers and sailors to fight when the
flag is supposed to be assai1ed.
Seattle evidently has not learned that the safest
way to deal with agitators is to let them blow off
steam Let them do that and there is as much
harm in them as in a rundown alarm clock At
tempt to confne their steam and there is the usual
danger of an explosion.
San Francisco Sacramento and other California
cities provide open air forum, where he who
wishes to reform the universe may freely tell how
to do it.
On Grant avenue any night in the week not
only orator but sometimes FIVE or six may be
heard spoutng in most infammatory and contra
dictory tones. There is one Japanese socialist who
still insists on denouncng the late Pierpont Nor
gan, together with Andrew Carnegie and John D.
Rockefeller evidently not yet having heard that
Mr.. Morgan is dead
1t is to laugh, not to be alarmed, nor to riot
about because agitator feels that he must ag-
tate.
Why go mad, like bull at the color of rag?
The responsible ministry Of France has been social
ist, yet put down riots more promptly than some
OF its predecessors There has been socialist
member of congress, and the world has not turned
over. One does not have to be socialist to see
that socialism is not anarchy
There is one dangerous result that may follow
from the Seattle riot 1t was created by uniformed
men who are supposed to be guardians of the peace
and preservers of liberty If soldiers and sailors
take to rioting against civilians no matter what the
political views Of the latter may be- can hardly be
expected that the lawless tendencies of the soap
box orators will be restrained but on the CON
trary that rioting by the advocates of order will
lead to rioting by the forces of disorder.
Mayor Cotterl democrat and social upfter,
against whose administration, because he has made
Seattle what is called a closed town there has been
much agitation by the agents of corruption and
their supporters to have acted with firmness
and promptness IN his attempt to suppress any, fur
ther rioting. For their own good name and that Of
the coast the citizens Of Seattle should support him
unitedly until peace is restored.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
Many Americans in Canada

Henry Hutchinson, a well known
lumber man of Boston, who is a guest
at the Manx, says that thousands of
year. MIR. Hutchinson said:
IF the present ratio of American
settlers going to Canada continues, that
country will be as thoroughly American
within the next 90 years as this coun-
try was given an Irish tone in the late
sixties. ! have been in northwestern
Canada for more than a year now, and
travelled all over that section. Canada
is very rich country when its natural
resources are considered, and 1t is no
wonder to me that so many Americans
have moved across the border to make
their future home.
One of the most grievous faults of
our government has been the indiffer-
ence to colonizing It's own territory.
The western part Of the country was
|settled through the efforts of the rail-
roads. the land companies, immigration
concerns and boards of trade. On the
other hand, the Canadian government
takes a personal interest in every one
who becomes a settler, and it is this
interest that has decreased the popu-
lation in SO many districts along our
northern border. For one year the
|
settler and aids him In every way. If
he is sick, he is cared for. The Cana
dian government sees TO 1t that the
settler gets credit, and. in fact, the
government guarantees his credit.
Had the department of the interior
taken this amount Of interest in our
settlers In the west we would now have
la bigger and better settled country. /
feel sure, now that we have Secretary
Franklin Lane in office, that the in
terests of the west will be better taken
care Of Mr.. Lane is California man
and is familiar with conditions in the
far west and north. I feel sure he will
do all in his power to further the in
terests of the western country and will
aid the settlers.
There are thousands and thousands
of acres of agricultural land in our
western country that might be thrown
open to home seekers. The government
should do more than throw open this
land to entry-it should help the settler
| in making home for himself. and. if
possible, see to it in some way that he
can get money with which to develop
the land. This country is powerful and
rich, but it is too careless in the matter
of taking care OF settlers. The home
builders are the backbone OF any coun-
TRY, and we need more Of them.''
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Preacher Decries Sunday Festival

| her contempt. Those of you who
would really like to know how Scot
land spends her Sabbaths read The
Cotter's Saturday Night" written by
our immortal bard, Robert Burns,
whose memory, by the bye, seems to
be kept alive, on this continent, by
annual booze carnivals," and in that
work you will find that even before the
break of the Sabbath day the cotter,
the poorest OF all Scottish peasants.
gathers around him his family, and
there before the family altar, a thing
apparently unknown in many of the
homes of our Scottish American clans
men, solemn preparation for Sabbath
observance is made Such festival
as shall be held in the Shell Mound
park this coming Sunday shall not
fleet, in any sense, the credit of Scot
land. Any one who believes that
Scotland is deserving Of any respect
would do well to remain away from
that Fiesta"
This is not intended. solely, to be a
TRADE against Sabbath desecration
This is rather an appeal to the right
thinking American public, who may
attend this festival, that you may not
lay such spectacle as will be seen in
Shell Mound park next Sunday to the
doors of Scotland. Real Scotchmen,
those who are worthy of the name,
would have absolutely nothing to do
with a Sunday festival of this kind.
Those to whom blame should be at
tached are unscrupulous enough to
make a few dirty dollars at the ex-
pense of Scotland's fair name.
r. A. MACLAREN BROWNE.
Acting Pastor. First Presbyterian
Church, Chico.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
QOard AbOlishes Scholarships

IL The school board by vote of 3 to has put
ban on the students contributing scholar
ship funds maintained in some of the San Francisco
high schools.
1t wise move Founded as they un-
doubtedly were on a fine sentiment these scholar
ships had proper place in the high school life of
San Francisco.
1t is altogether admirable for the boys and girls
Of the San Francisco high schools to encourage a
desire for higher education, but the finest motives
may result in inexcusable abuses.
While the maintenance of contributing scholar
ships may have helped the sons and daughters of
some poor men, it has worked to the injury of
many more.
Their maintenance was standing invitation for
contributions from the sons and daughters of men,
whose resources were drained to the limit by their
efforts to secure the benefits of the high schools
for their children. Failure to contribute has ex-
posed children to very genuine form of ostracism
Like lax regulation OF social activities the
scholarships have served bar rather than to hold
the sons and daughters of poor men in the high
schools.
The school board has done we'll to abolish them.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
SHARP POINTS
Santa Cruz Stock Feed

According to credible report, any
thrifty person who has stock to feed
can secure good supply of the neees-
sary material in Ocean street north of
Water, where a fine crop of mixed fod-
double advantage would be gained If
some Industrious stock owner would
reap said harvest, inasmueh as he
would get nice bunch of feed free of
charge and the sidewalk would be made
more available for use by pedestrians
Santa Cruz News
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
A School of immortality

- Mattoids, morOns, neurotlcs, paranoacs
paretics and psychopaths, persons suffering
unconscously from various forms of nervous or
mental degeneracy, form about the only class in the
community to whom the abnormal, the monstrous
and the largely faxed letters being printed in this
city possibly seem laudable, anything except
abomnable
To every sound, wholesome, clean minded per-
son the supposed confessions of the personal ex-
periences of common prostitute are, to say the
least, hardly pleasant appetizers for the supper
table.
Ii the confessions were bona hde, if the state
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
ANSWERS TO QUERIES

MORTGAGE AND NOTE-G. L.. Paradise Val
lev. Whether man who loans money on q
mortgage or promissory note will accept the
amount due before maturity depends upon the
understanding at the time of the loan between
the borrower and the lender.
X
AT GETTYSBURG-O. S., Yountville. A re
port Of the union and confederate losses during
the three days fighting at Gettysburg shows.
union losses. s.i55 killed and 14,529 wounded;
confederate losses, 2,5s2 killed and So, ZOE
wounded
4
BALLOON GAS-Shbscriber. Los Gatos. Both
hydrogen gas and Illuminating gas used for
hllins balloons. The later is used for exhibi-
ton purposes, because 1t is cheaper but 1t is not
as buoyant as hydrogen, which is IA times lighter
than air.
X
DWARF-R. e. H.. City. Charles S. STRAIT
ton, the dwarf known as Tom Thumb, began
touring the United States in 1857.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20

WEATHER INSTRUMFNTS-Subscr City.
The highest point of the instruments used by the
weather bureau in this city and located on the
roof of the Merchants Exchange building is 217
feet above the line OF the sidewalk. The high
est of these is II feet above the roof
X
CALIFORNIA GRAYS - E., Berkeley The
military organization known as the 'sCalifornia
Grays is not part of the national guard Of the
state. For information as to eligibility. address
the company at headquarters 500 Fillmore
street.
y
EIGHT HOURS Enquirer, City. According
to a ruling of the treasury department on the
eight hour law of August "a, 1912. as 1t Affects
the postal department, It applies only to letter
carriers and clerks In first and second class post.
Offices.
AREAS. G. City. The area Of San Fran.
cisco according to the California blue book is 40
square miles.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
LITTLE MOVIES
Machinery

A knight in metal armor neat and clean
Remarked, How much behind the
times we are,
Could I be fitted out with gasoline,
I might become a human motor carr"
Washington Star.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
Suggestion From Oroville

We would suggest that the good
citizens of Oroville get together some
day in the near future and institute
careful search for all the old rusty
hammers that are lying around and
destroy them.-Oroville Mercury.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
Nothing Serious

Gerald, have I ever given you rea-
son to think / would marry you?"
NO, Gwendolen, you never have, and
II you don't want me to bother you
any more / won't. Just give me my
regular goodnight kiss and I'll go."-
Chicago Tribune.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
THE STATE PRESS
Her Ears Out of Fashion

One notes by observing the latest
modes in coiffures that feminine ears
have gone out of fashion again.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
Pavements for Chewing

AS paving material the chewing gum
used on our new streets is not bad in
winter, but in hot weather too much Of
It sticks to the citizens.-Chicago News.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
A Circumlocution

Judge-The prisoner says he as
saulted you because you called him "a
nut"
Complainant-I uttered no such word
your honor. I merely warned him
against going into the park where the
squirrels are.-Boston Transcript.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
Good Scheme

Why not let the irrepress,b,a pal
kans and the turbulent Mexicans fight
1t out?-Omaha Bee.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
An Ancient Custom Revived

Potatoes are so cheap that grocers
may resume the old practice of placing
one over the snoot of each oil can
Kansas City Star.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
Summer Forecastin,
Predictio

Prediction takes a simple form.
The prophecy is pat
You keep predicting fair and warm
And let 1t go at that.
Washington Star.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-15
$3.50 Recipe Free, For
Weak Men.
Send Name and Address Today
You Can Have It Free and Be
Strong and Vigorous.

I have in my possession a prescrlp-
ton for nervous debility, lack or Vlgor.
weakened manhood, failing memory
and lame back, brought on Dy eA-
cesses. unnatural drains, or the Iollles
OF youth, that has cured so many worn
and nervous men right IN unelr own
hOmes-withOut, any 2ddltlondI he4p u
medicfne-that I think every man VINO
wishes to regain his manly power an
virility. quickly and quietly, snould
have a CODY so I nave determined 70
send a cooy Of the prescription tree or
charge, in a plain, ordinary scared en-
veIope to any man VINO VIII write me
This prescription comes from ply
sician who has made spSclal stlqy
CT men ana I am convinced It IS the
surest-acting combination 1or Ine cure
Of deficient manhood anu NlSor 1a4lure
ever put together. ..-,,
to send them q copy IN cCnIloehce 50
that anv man anywhere who is weak
and discouraged with repeated failures
may stop drugging himself with harm
full patent medicines. secure what / be-
lieye is tie understanding restorative
upbuildinc- SPOT TOUCHING remedy
ever devised. and so cure himself at
hCme Quietly and quickly. Just drop
me a line like this: DR.. A z. Robinson
4O49 Luck Building. Detroit. Mich, and
I will send YOU a copy Of this splen-
did recipe in a plain ordinary envelope
free Of charge. A great many doctors
would charge $500 TO $500 for merely
writing out a prescription like this
but I send it entirely free.-AdV.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-15

who possess a larger share, sympathiZe
with our desire to see the Improvement
Of their fellow citizens-and so as
sist in the building in its truest sense
Of any city, always keeping in view
there are two sides to every question.
Capital and Labor
How often do we see and hear the
common phrase Capital and Labor"
l do not agree with this phrase as
being applicable to the stand taken by
some as existing between employer
and employee, or, in other words, be-
tween those with financial interests
only and trade unionism. Trade union
Ism IN this respect IS only asking to
stand shoulder to shoulder with the
employer mot financial mOnOpOIist)
TO enable him to obtain a reasona BIZ
and fair profit on his Wares-made,
manufactured, or sold by the men car
Tylng union card On the other hand
laoor (emplOyees) only asks and ex-
poets a fair remuneration for services
rendered to enable him to live in re-
spectabllity and be a good citizen,
without coercion Of any description.
Strife and Discomfort.
The strife and deep discomfort
amongst the labOrers-the builders CT
clueS-ls not mere discomfort with this
or tnat or the other detail of our in
uustflal machinery. It is discomfort
ana angry distrust of the Industrial
system itself, deep dislike of the fun
uanental conditions on which, and on
HHlch only, labor is employed. The
iaoOI er IS employed not that he may
i've I'VE IN comfort and security on -he
Irult OF MS labor, but that he NAV pro-
uuce profits on which somebody else
may llVe IN security and comfort. That
= the DaSlc fact which the laborer has
ulscOFereo' and against which he is
tlOIe or less violently kicking. Can he
oe DI9nle9: Is this to the betterment
VI upDIHlIulng Of any city? Decidedly
W. gu cannot answer otherwise.
- - MS IS what union labor is striving
- - PeIslslently but withal in a con-
ent We must admit commarce 80 in
oustry absorb practically tbe y-boIe If
tLe energy OF the peOple-the labOrers
VINO Oulu cltleS-and amongst MS we
must ADMIT some to a certain ascend
ahcy' even as the Old World did
me Union Movement.
Inc iaDor union movement-a
lane inns remark after careful studv
~. Ut many years-has made its wav by
- energy ana reasOna bleness in the
race OF a rather general mistrust and
olher half Of the builders Of our cities
opposition - sometimes ius+ifiad - on
the part OF those whom fary, the
Nlh TINS take no cognizance of fl
nanclal wire pullers or others mem
tlOned IN my opening remarksD Even
IN TINS II IS seen that organization is
an element Of fair play. and exDerience
SHOWS and proves that unions are in
Struments OF stability, and as such are
pound TO make Roadway. Personally.
i think 1t is only a commonDIaca mind
when lends itself intellectually 20
the commercial IDEAL ignoring intel