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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1900)
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER CHAS. F. & ADA K. SOULE, Znb: TOLEDO OREGON A cycle path for wheelmen mnj be eonsldered a good thing on the side. At last all is made clear. He is called the unspeakable Turk because money talks. A contemporary asks In an editorial headline "Were our ancestors black V" Some of their deeds were very. There Is a movement on foot to or ganise a banana trust It will require no Supreme Court to take the hide off that The latest thing In railway inven tions is a cigar-shaped train. It is being puffed by some of the scientific Journals. "Bobs" Is still the way the English papers refer to Lord Itoberts, although they confess he's made a bigger name for himself. An Italian opera company is reported to have been wiped out by yellow fever In Brazil, but some mean people will probably claim that the chorus died of old age. Word comes from Texas that a cy clone recently picked up a girl, carried n!lc an:l put her down without even a bruise. Texas cyclones have now done nearly everything but hatch out eggs and churn the butter. Prince Alexis Dolgproukoff has been In this country Investigating the stand ing of American capitalists for the Russian government. If he limited his researches to a consideration of the tax lists he found that American capi talists are generally a very poor lot All the momentary Indications to the contrary notwithstanding, we venture the assertion with great confidence that never were character and a good name of as much value as business as eets as they are to-day. Time was when by a change of environment and the formation of new connections a business man who had kept within the llevlsed Statutes to the extent of keep ing out of jail could balance the record of his past and open a new account with fortune. This is becoming in creasingly difficult The very perfect machinery of Investigation maintained by the commercial agencies, supple mented by the even more searching analysis of the associations of manu facturers, merchants and financial in stitutions formed for mutual informa tion an'd protection, give the man with a shady past or a record clouded by wrongdoing very little chauce to es cape recognition, however disguised. I There is luniud to be a reaction against the present popular form of fiction, with Its dueling duchesses, gam bling princesses and abnormally ar dent lovers. The realists will have their day and we shall know just how livellna felt when she went to market in the morning, and Just how the car rots and cabbages were arranged in the grocer's window. There is much to be said for these still water come dies, and even the relation between the housekeeper and iter grocer Is full of psychological subtleties. Tor the gro cer knows exactly what his customer's standard of crlspnoss, both in life and lu lettuce, Is,, and Just what degree of wlltodness It will be possible for her to endure. It Is time that the world realized that the eternal love theme Is not the only legitimate subject for novels. All of the lanes of life are not lovers' lanes, with the altar and orange blossoms at the end of them. There are some pretty sequestered paths where platonlc friends love to wander aud where all sorts of lofty relation ships are formed. It would be gratify ing to many readers should the novel ists take to these paths whcu lu pur suit of subject matter. In his monograph prepared fur tin' educationaloxhlblt of the t'nited States at the Purls exposition 1'rot. Nicholas Murray Butler feels called upon to Jus tify the multiplicity of small colleges which Is often the subject of foreign criticism. There are 472, und he ad mits that the number Is enoromus and that many are small and weak aud Ill endowed, aud that the criticisms agatust the existence of many are Jus tified. Yet he says It should not be for gotten that almost any college exerts a helpful Influence upon the lire of Its locality. The fact Is frequently over looked that all American colleges do Jend for their student attendance lu large measure upon the residents of their own Immediate neighborhood. Few draw from the nation at large, and eveu in these few the greater num ber of the students are from within the Institutions' own state or the l'mltt of their own section of. the country. Tor example, of the l!7,IO(t students attend ing colleges in the North Atlantic divi sion of the United States 'M.lVXi, or W.41 per cent., are residents of the States included In that dlvisiou. Of the 8.020 students iu the colleges of Massachusetts 5,502 are residents of the State and 88.37 per cent, are resi dents of the North Atlantic division. The colleges in Oregon draw 99.87 per cent, of their students from the raciflc coast and 90.09 come from the State. It is safe to assume that most of these students would have to do without a collegiate education were It not for the small colleges In Oregon. The report of the University of Michigan excel lentlyi Illustrates the truth of Dr. But ler's contention. Although the Univer sity of Michigan draws from all the world, yet of Its 3,447 students 2.(101) are reported as residents of the State. Tubllc events that have come home with peculiar force to the peop.e of this nation seem to call for a repet.tiou of the homely aphorism, "Honesty Is the best policy." If there were no Christian religion. If "thou shilt not steal" had never been inscribed lu holy writ the truth would still hold good that the risk of dishonesty Is out of all proportion to any possible gain. It Is said that most newspaper men are pes simists that they are, as a class, cruel and unfeeling. There may , be some thing In the charge. Their work bring them in contact with so much that is insincere, with so much of misery, with so much of crime, that unless they be broad enough to understand that their lives are narrow, they are prone .to think the world Is made up of these things. But the newspaper man usually learns -early that "honesty is the best policy." Almost daily he comes in con tact with the hardship, the disgrace and the misery that follow dishonesty almost as surely as night follows the setting suu. A trusted employe sudden ly "resigns," and when the reporter comes to look Into the facts he finds a sorrowful employer, a crushed and pen itent ex-employe and a family, half crazed with a grief that Is worse than death. Imploring that nothing be print ed of the matter. Nothing appears about it In the paper, of course, but the young man, "short In his accounts," never re covers from the blow. A building as sociation or bank has been looted by Its managers, a commercial enterprise has been wrecked by dishonest prac tices, In almost any of the cases th:it occur, always comes the same stagger ing load of sorrow and shame. We are In the world to gain as much of happi ness as we can. Let any one look among those he knows best and ask himself who, among them, are the happy oues. Invariably he finds them to be the ones that have lived the best lives according to the Christian code of inn nils. Whether they he rich or poor seems to make little difference In the sum of happiness they are able to extract from life. If their records be clean, if they have nothing to be ashamed of, If they possess the proud consciousness that they have accomplished good in the world, If they have the confidence and respect of those that know them, riches beyond a comfortable competence can make little difference in their happi ness. HOW SHE WON FATHER. The Old Man Warn Amnsed at Her Little Deceit. This 1'lety hill family Is rich, influen tial and free from the weaknesses of the parvenu. The daughter iu question has an admirer who pleases her. But she Is the ouly one In the whole domes tic circle who Is under the spe 1 of his attractions. He Is a fine fellow, perhaps a bit too line, for he has some very old fashioned ideas aud lives up to them. The other day she had a battle to have him with thein for dinner, says the De troit Free Tress. They had Just begun to enjoy the soup when he turned to the father aud effusively thanked him for a picture re ceived as a birthday present. It was as dainty and pretty n piece of work as he had seen Iu a long while, and it was particularly welcome from her father. All but cue of his hearers, father In cluded, looked stunned. He cleared his throat and, while sparring for time, caught the eye of the favorite daughter. It was shining, kuowlng, and command ing. "Ah, yes, yes; glad you liked It." And the head of the house deliberately burned himself with the soup. "What was ItV" And the mother lowered the temperature of the room until the more timid shivered. "I presume It was a water color," said the daughter, hurriedly. "Some thing pastoral, no doubt. Ceorge likes such things. Dark frame, of course." "Guessed It the first time." smiled the father. "It was so good of you." murmured the visitor. "You darling old Hps" she whisper ed after dinner. "I knew you'd under stand. We never show him any kind ness, so I Just went down and bought that picture and enclosed your caid. Isn't he grateful?" It tickled the o'.d gentleman. He felt lniHirtant and like a protector. Before the family separated for bed he made an emphatic announcement that the daughter should marry any one she wanted to and he would allow no Inter ference. Some people go through life looking as If taey were sorry they had ever started. DIVORCE CASES DRAW CURIOUS-CROWDS FLOCK TO CHICAGO COURTROOMS. All Sorts of Types Banned in Exhibi tion Busybodiea Prominent Among Viaitora Stern and Gentle Sex ea Have Their Own Fancies and Foibles. When Moses was building up a sys tem of laws for the government of his people he decided that It should be law ful for a -man to write his wife a bill of divorce and send her out of his house if she proved to be disappointing, but he made no provisions for the w.fe to shut the door against the husband. But cystoma as well as laws have un dergone a radical change since Moses' time. The rule In these degenreate days is to recognize the fact that woman has reached about as great a distance from the Jungle as man has, and another fact Is made clear that four women undertake to send their husbands out A CHICAGO DIVORCE MILL IN ACTION. of the house to one man who tries the game. And because the one will not move out at the bidding of the other the strong arm of the law Is appealed to to expedite the going. Nor are the ethics of tearing matri monial ties Into tatters considered a whit more seriously at this day than they were thousands of years ago. In fact, It was uot very much of an ethical question then, nor is it now. Then It Mas wife ownership by the husband, aud to-day, according to the secular laws, the relation between husband aud wife Is largely one of dissoluble partnership by petition by either one.of the patties In Interest to Judicial au thority. The Judicial autho.ity ordeis that the .partnership he continued or dissolved, and when the court has spoken Its decree Is enduring if the dis solution of the partnership Is corn tunneled, but If uot the belligerents surely will continue the la. tie lu an other Judicial ring. Hear Cnaea on Baturdaya. The Chicago courts, says the Chron icle, devote Saturdays to lit at lug di vorce cases, and the mills of these Judi cial gods go at a very rapid rate, but not carelessly or with Indifference. Doubtless very mauy peop.e will be amazed when told that 3.UUO divorces are granted every year by tl.e Ch cago courts, und as they hear such cases only one day in the week It Is found that after deducting holidays the week ly average is great. It is ascertained, too, that four-ttfths of the petitions are filed by women, aud nine-tenths of the charges are drunkenness, cruel t.eat nieut and abandonment. Nearly all men applicants for divorce make charges agaiust their wives un der the guise of "incompatibility." Duly occasionally, except In cases of abandonment, does a defendant let the case go against him or her by default There seems to be a streak In the na ture of such people that forces them to wind up their mntrlniouial relations by flinging mud, so that the other one shall go out Into the world besmirched with suspicion and branded with let ters that spell "vicious," "devilish," "beastly," "fiendish." When such cases are on the boards the crowd of specta tors is always large, for the play deals ouly hi perfidy, hypocrisy, falsehood, mud-flinging, cusseduess aud human depravity. It Is said that some men and more women are a filleted with a mania to attend funerals, aud that It. matters lit tle to them whether It be a funeral of a friend, an aoqiiajutnuce or a stranger. It Is enough for them to know that it Is a funeral, aud that they are "in It" and enjoying the pleasure of the mournful occasion. But however much a funeral may charm some people, one must go to a divorce court when facts which should not be voiced In public are being told. There the article that gladdens the lieart of such people most Is given out rsw and by wholesale. There these vul- tores find the supreme heights of their hearts' delight in pathetic, in brutal and in coldly indifferent recitals of the misfortunes of husbands and wives. A study of the faces of the habi tues of divorce courts is likely to make one believe that the process of evolu tion has been reversed in them, and that they are grinding at the mills of Involution, the grist of which Is hearts that are happiest when misery, disappointment and cruelty are haul ing others to and fro in the slough of social and domestic slime and filth. Such habitues are mostly women women who have no interest there ex cept to feed their minds upon the stor ies that fall from the witness stand. Perhaps so, and perhaps not, many of them belong to the ranks of the legally separated, but, if their facial expres sion, either In repose or In expectancy, indicates anything, it says they do be long there, and even the casual student of human nature would be constrained to congratulate their late matrimonial partners on their escape rom such barbarians. Every Saturday morning the crowds at the court house elevators waiting to be carried up to the several court rooms remind one that It Is domestic scandal day, and if anything else is wanted to convince one of that fact, a glance at the excited faces Mill fur nish evidence. It is pulling and haul ing to secure the most available seats, aud when they are secured these, faces say. "Now, ring up the curtain." Meanwhile and during the lulls a M-onmn may be seen plying her knit ting needles, and a man here and there scanning faces, as If trying to make a selection for a Mife his third of fourth, more or less. So the divorce court Is a place not only where matrl moulal ties are severed, but also M'here they are originated. Whether men are, on the whole, more mauly than women are womanly has always been an open question, but it is true, according to the records of the divorce courts, not ouly In Chica go, but everywhere else, that the aver age man will bear about every indig nity before lie will face the publicity of a divorce trial. It is equally true that nearly all men M ill avoid making the charge of faithlessness If some thing else can be used to secure the desired end. He has a thousand times Mn.LIONAIIlE greater horror of the public knowing that he "has been fooled" than a wo man has for her husband's faithless ness. The science of social economy shows that to be true. Still, there are exceptions, of course, which are to be expected as long as a man aud a wo man are to be found here and there M ho do not hesitate to break up their marriage relations deliberately aad purposely. GREW HIS UMBRELLA STOCK. Infinite Palm of m St. Loniaan Be towed Upon a Maple Sapling. A guest of one of the principal hotels yesterday exhibited a curious and beautiful umbrella handle to a party of admiring friends. It M as a crook of IitL1. " .,,.,.,XY V silver maple wood, Deanng the nasiral bark, and Its ornament consisted of three heavy gold bands, or rings, en circling the shaft at equal distances. What made it remarkable M-as the self-evident fact that the bands had been put on when the branch from M-hlch the handle was made M-as part of a living tree, and much smaller in diameter. The MTbod had grown through and around the confining metal and bulged out at either side, producing an odd and striking effect. "It took me four years to get "the ma terial ready for this umbrella handle," said the proud owner. "I live In the suburbs of St Louis and have several fine maple- trees on the premises. In 1893 the Idea, occurred to me, and I had a Jeweler make me these three rings, which I slipped over a small branch and tied at the proper distance M-ith cords. I had to select a very di minutive branch, because Otherwise' the twigs M-ould have prevented the rings from going on, and 1 picked out one pretty high up so it would be out of the May of pilferers. Then 1 Malt ed patiently for nature to clinch the bands by process of growth. . 1 said nothing about the experiment, and the family often Mondered why In the world I climbed that tree so often. I am a traveling man, and wnenever I returned from the road I M-ould lose no time in taking a look at my prospec tive umbrella handle. It was slow Mork, however, aud the fall of jS'.T had rolled around before I finally cut the branch. Then I turned it over to an expert, M-ho kept it ten months longer, seasoning and polishing it, and bending the' upper end into the crook, which was done by a process of steam-, lng. The result is Mhnt you see. I am couvlnced it Is the only thing of its kind in the world, and I take good care to keep It away from urubrelhi thieves." New Orleans Times-Democrat YOUNG VANDERBILT TO WED. Hla Bride-to-Be, Elsie French, Is of an Ancient Family. An Important society event at some still undeterminate date M ill be the marriage of Alfred Uwynne Vander blit head of the Vanderbllt mill.ous, aud Miss Elsie French, whose engage ment Mas recently announced. Young Vanderbllt Mas boin in 1877 and graduated from Yale In 1899. He Mas making a tour of the world aud had reached Japan when his father died. Iteturning home, he found that V his father had passed by his eldest son, Cornelius J., and had left the ent.re fortune of $100,000,000 to himself. Very generously, however, Alfred Gwynue disregarded this arrangmeut and turn ed over some $7,000,000 to his brother. This action Mas a noble one. A fam.ly feud over the distribution of the Van derbllt Intei ests M-ould Inevitably have affected many Innocent persons who were interested In Vanderbllt proper ties. It seemed proper anl co.reot. enough to settle all dispute by giving: away a king's ransom, but how many young men are there just out of college-M-ho could have done it so quickly and so gracefully. Alfred Gwynue is a mod est young man aud is said to have in herited the Vauderbilt geuius for finance. Young Vanderbllt inherited the Van derbllt millions In accordance w th tin t; editions of the fain ly. At tl.e i.ea n of o'.d Commodore Vanderbi.t. the founder of the family, the bulk of h fortune passed to his-son. Will am II. Vanderbllt, M-ho was said to have in herited about $73,000,000 at the aga of "(!. When William II. Vanderbllt d ed lie TO WED HEIRESS. left the bulk of his fortune to his eldest son. Cornelius, who inherit. d a o t $S(.(KH.000 at the age of 42. And now Alfred Gwyune has Inherited f loo.ooo -nh) from his father, the latter cutting off the elder son because of the latter marriage, which displeased the father. Ills bride-to-be is a daughter of the late Ormond French, who was tenth in descent from Edwaid French, one of the founders of Ipswich. Mass., in loW. She Is an heiress In her own right and is an athletic young woman, with a fondness for sailing, riding, swimming- A and tennis. She Mas a playmate of hef future husband In her childhood and lj 21 years old. Nothing succeeds like the success oX a man who has a political pulL