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
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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