Lincoln County leader., August 10, 1900, Image 6

LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
CHAR. r. & ADA K. SOLLE, Pub
:
TOLEDO OREGON
Talking of ice, $25,000,000 this year
from frozen Klondike also represents
o much cold cash.
The rich ninn who has nothing to do
and the poor man who can get nothing
to do are both to be pitied.
By the time the powers are through
with her the Empress Dowager's crown
will be several degrees from being on
straight.
New York was lately astonished with
a unique experience the sight of a tire
proof building which would uot burn.
The fact has created much comment.
A New York magistrate has decided
that women have as good a right as
men to wager their money on hose
races. This is a highly important vic
tory for the advocates of women's
rights.
Another broken neck mended. If
there Is anything short of a resurrec
tion that surgery cannot accomplish for
humanity nowadays, perhaps some
body will be good enough to name it.
By the way, they have restored the
tunnel at Lulng's Nek, too.
The habit has grown to scoff at grad
uates, their Impractical ideas, their
couceit and their iguornnce of the work
aday world. It may be granted these
young people, for the most part, are
Innocent of the workaday world's
ways; Imbued with more than a 'fair
share of poetic sentiment, maybe; nur
tured In a congenial atmosphere apart
from the tierce struggle for existence
or supremacy. So much the better.
They will harden rapidly enough under
the hard knocks the world has to give
them.
One of New York's multi-millionaires
has chosen the ministry as his profes
sion under circumstances which Indi
cate that his choice is a wise one. He
adds another gratifying Instance to the
lengthening list of Illustrations that the
rich men's sons in this country are not
necessarily spendthrifts who waste or
Idlers who consume. The dangers and
temptations to young men of what is
practically unlimited wealth are great,
but the average capacity of resistance
to temptation is also great. It Is fur
nishing more exceptions than evidences
to the rule that it Is "only three genera
tions from shirtsleeves to shirt
sleeves." Only to cite the more con
spicuous Instances we may mention the
Vandorbllt family, in which the fourth
generation Is now enjoying its pros
perity with a greatly Increased, fortuue.
The sons of Jay Could are sensible
business men. The young Rockefellers
have settled down to work. Young
Col. Astor and the Armour who recent
ly died and the Goclots and Wads
worths and Browns and Blnlrs aud
Morgans and Maniuands and hosts of
others are heirs to fortunes who can
give a good account of their trustee
ship. A distinct trend against divorce Is
manifest over the country. A few
weeks ago a New York minister refused
to marry divorced persons whose fee
would have tempted a weak man. It is
true they succeeded In getting married,
but uot until chagriu accentuated their
course publicly and helped to eucourage
other ministers aud all magistrates to
a tinner attitude toward divorce when
the object Is obviously to get rid of a
lawful partner to take up with one tem
porarily more acceptable. The Western
(States have been lax In their marriage
laws. Heaction set in some time ago.
Persistency of Its purpose appears at
frequent Intervals, alwuys with con
demnation of domestic looseness. At
Han Francisco, Judge llecher has tiled
a decision which will exert a corrective
influence In the direction of family uni
ty. Its substance Is that persons di
vorced in California may uot lawfully
marry within a year after the date of
tho decree. It makes no difference
where a new marriage may be con
tracted; If within the specified limit of
time the contracting parties coming
within the law will be liable to prose
cution In the State or California. If
the IStutes generally had such a statute
on tholr books American divorce scan
dals would cease to be a world topic.
Judicial records show that 75 per cent,
of American divorces are procured for
Immediate marriage to other persous
previously selected.
Is there a reaction agatiut tho q
rlallstY For several years young men
have been told that they must uot try
to know much about everything, but
Instead must learn to know one thing
well. As a result there are now special
ists lu every business aud profession.
Now the voice of protest Is heard. A
few weeks ago Judge Grosseup told tho
alumni of a Chicago law school that the
day of the all-around lawyer was going
to return, and that the specialist would
not Hud persistence lu tho present pol
icy profitable. A similar Idea Is ex
pressed In the address of Dr. George II.
Combs before the graduating clan of
JOrake University. He said that the
present system of mental culture In the,
universities Is defective, and asserted
that single faculties are being educated;
at the expense of the mind. "The vice
of the age is specialization," he de-'.
dared. "One faculty of the body or
mind Is being educated at the expense
of the rest. Such high specialization
passes Into thralldom. He has master
ed one thing at the expense of all else.;
He Is the slave of his own success. He
Is the tool of his own tool." Dr. Combs,
suggested that the university should
provide a "multiform culture, rich and;
varied." The memory should be cul
tivated less and the imagination more,;
and the university should give a well
rounded development of the mind. In-'
stead of the "intellectual dryness and
barrenness" of the average college,
course. Mathematics and Greek litera
ture should give place to more music,
art and literature, studied in a way to
develop a culture more comprehensive,!
more catholic, and more human. And
so the Jack of all trades is to be pre
ferred to the master of one.
One of the most rapid developments
of American trade recently has been In
slioes. The American shoe has become
noted throughout the world for lti
beauty, Its comfort, and for the reason
able price at which It Is sold, thanks to
the perfection of modern shoe-making
machinery. In every civilized quarter
the American shoe is coming to be re
garded as the standard, and Just as peo
ple send to Paris for clothes so they
ooad to America for shoes. The rapid
expansion of the trade Is shown by the
exports for the first nine months of the
present fiscal year, which amounted to
$3,027,440, as compared with $1,702,
081 for the corresponding period of tho
previous year. The chief market Is
found in Great Britain and its colonies,
although the market In continental Eu
rope Is extending rapidly. The Shoe
aud Leather Reporter tells of the suc
cess which has attended the efforts of
American manufacturers to sell direct
ly to the European consumers. They
have opened shops like those In the
United States which advertise to sell
shoes "direct from the maker to the
wearer." Two or three Arms have al
ready opened such stores In various
parts of Europe. They do so not only
for the immediate profit, but because of
the Increased demand for American
shoes which is certain to follow their
Introduction In any locality. Already
Imitation American shoes are being
made in Europe and sold under that
name. The success of American shoes
wherever the people have an opportuni
ty to examine them Is certain, and the
Shoe and heather Reporter expects
that the time will come when the world
will be shod by America.
The recognition of the greater gener
osity of Americans In endowments for
'public purposes made by Mr. Chamber
lain lu his speech at the University of
Birmingham is a compliment which
this country need have uo hesitation lu
accepting. It emphasizes the marked
contrast between American methods
and those of all other countries. While
we can point with pride to our State
universities and to some publicly en
dowed libraries and other institutions
of learning, the rule Is that these Insti
tutions are the creation of individual
benefactions. In Europe the rule ii
quite the other way. The establishment
of a university by an Individual Is, we
believe, unheard of, and in every way
the wealthy Kuropenu scrupulously re
frains from interfering with the gov
ernmental function of endowlug and
maintaining Institutions of learning or
art. There are brilliant exceptions,
such as the Baron de Hirsch, the Duke
de Galllera and the Due d'Auinale, but
even the Carnegie libraries come from
American money and Amerlcau influ
ences. To show by contrast the Ameri
can way It Is only necessary to men
tion t he names of Girard, Johns Hop
kins, Rockefeller, Stanford, Clark, Ar
mour, Vassar, Cornell, De Pauw, Van
derbllt, Tulane. Pearson, Crerar, Field,
Astor, Lenox, Tllden, and It would take
nearly all the tablets in tho proposed
Temple of Fame to name the givers of
fortunes who have built up the splen
did endowments of our colleges, li
braries, museums and charities a list
of names which all Europe could not
match. It can do no harm to bear In
mind the leading Illustrations of the
purely American habit of endowing
such Institutions, as an answer to tho
frequent accusation that the American
Is a worshiper of "the almighty dol
lar." Kpcaktn from Eiparlence.
"One-half of the people of this world
would knock the other half down, and
laugh while they were doing It." said
the m uu on the rear platform of tho
cur.
"You haven't any grounds whatever
for such n pessimistic remark," said
the argumentative individual. "What
makes you think soV"
"Recaiise I used to stick my head
through a hole in a cauvas and let peo
ple try to bang base balls at mo for 5
cents a bang," came the answer. "I
know a few things about this beauti
ful brotherly love, I guess." Indianap
olis Sun.
A man isn't necessarily brilliant be
cause he sits down and reflects occasionally.
WILLIAM R. HEARST.
FOREMOST REPRESENTATIVE OF
NEW JOURNALISE.
An Aggressive Kditor Whose Methods
Have Given Him a Wide Reputation
" He Js Now the Owner of Three Great
Newspaper Properties.
Oue of the most aggressive of Ameri
can editors is William Randolph
Hearst, of New York, San Francisco,
and now Chicago, where he has estab
llsed a new paper, Hearst's Chicago
Amerlcau. lie is the foremost repre
sentative of the new journalism. Mr.
Hearst Is a sou of the late United
States Seuator George F. Hearst, who
made an immense fortuue in mining
enterprises on the Pacific slope. He
was born in California thirty-eight
years ago and graduated from Har
vard Uuiverrty. He Is the owner and
editor of the San Francisco Examiner,
the New York Journal, the New York
Jveuing Journal and the New York
WILLIAM RAMiOI.PH HEARST.
Morgeu Journal, and the new Chicago
paper.
Mr. Hearst acquired his taste for
Journalism as editor of the Harvard
Lampoon, when he was in college.
After he had finished school his father,
the Senator, said to him: "Now, young
man, what do you want to make of
yourself?" "An wilt or," said young
Hearst decidedly.
Senator Hearst gave him $1,000,000
and he Invested It In a newspaper. That
paper Is now the San Francisco Exam
iner, but when' Mr. Hearst bought It It
was a small affair, and the little repu
tation It had wns not the best. He
made a success of the. Examiner, and lu
two years' time It became one of the
Influential newspapers of the I'uited
States. Here Mr. Hearst obtained a
good- deal of Valuable experience at a
cost of considerable money. He suuk
nearly all of his $1,000,000 In Intangible
a'ssets before lie began to get any re
turns on the investment. To-day the
Examiner pays a primely Income.
Mr. Hearst then went to New York
and looked over the field. He bought
a newspaper, the moribund Journal,
that had been dragging along under
the management of Albeit Pulitzer. A
laugh rippled along Park Row. That
was In 1 !(", but the name of William
Randolph Hearst had not gone very far
lu Journalism live years ago. Mr.
Hearst had the disadvantage of looking
very young and very Innocent. He
seemed to be about 25 tall, blonde,
smooth-shaven aud Mild-mannered. His
eyes are blue aud he has a bland and
childish smile. New York journalism
started out to have some fun with him.
At that time the New York Journal had
n circulation of about 75,000 and no ad
vertising to speak of. Consequently
wiseacres commonly believed that the
young man from 'Frisco had Invested
in a gold brick. Pu nigra pliers made
funny remarks and caricaturists felt
rich in Mr. Hearst's Innocent face and
wide blue eyes. They represented him
us the "Raliy Cowboy Charging Park
Row."
Mr. Hearst began to run the New
York Journal on a plan that was new
to the East. His method was looked
upon with horror by some people, and
it is to day, for that matter. Headlines
rau riot, and often it seemed that the
"hell box" had been put through the
presses by mistake. Mr. Hearst printed
the news, but he printed it in his own
fashion. Things which had formerly
appeared on the front page In leaded
type went to the back pages or failed
to get In altogether. There was noth
ing hidebound about the Journal. Be
en use things always had been so was
considered the very best reason for a
change in the Journal office. The
Journal respected no "white elephants"
or "sacred cows." It walked over the
corns of some emUiently respectable
people, and when They "hollered" the
Journal said that It was doing them
good.
"Hope you feel In'tter," said Mr.
Hearst, as he went on to disturb more
bullous and smash more bric-a-brac.
The Journal ami Its methods attracted
people who like that sort of thing, and
they now foot up a vast army. Mr.
Hearst soon found hlmscjf In an easy
cho,lr on top of a heap of broken Idols
and with two profitable newspapers in
bis control.
But It was not until the last Presi
dential campaign came on that Mr.
Hearst made his real mark In New
York journalism. The young paper had
begun to "sit up and take notice," but
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jio iuiuiu mus uoi ussureu. ueu me
Democratic convention met in Chicago
it nominated Bryan in the teeth of the
New York delegation.- Mr. Hearst's
advisers told him that New Y'ork was
a gold center, and that to swing the
paper to Bryan meant the ruin of a
promising newspaper plant. Mr. Hearst
said that the journal would be a free
silver paper, and it was. Bryan aud
Hearst are now as brothers.
Editor Hearst was in favor of the
Spanish war. He lent his pen and his
reddest ink and his biggest type to
bringing It on. When tte wnr came on
he went to Cuba and visited the camps
of the soldiers. For a time he took
charge of his own news service and di
rected the handling of news at the
front. He tendered his yacht, the fast
est boat In Southern waters, to the
Government at a time when a dispatch
boat was sorely needed. The offer was
accepted.nndthe Hearst yacht did good
service till the fighting was over. If he
was against the generals and the
Board of Strategy he was always in
favor of the men in the ranks.
Mr. Hearst has always been an ag
gressive American. He fights some
times in a flamboyant style, but still
with effective thrusts.
AN HISTORIC EVENT.
The Signing of the First Declaration
of Independence.
In an historic section of North Caro
lina there has lecently been erected an
imposing monument which will recall
to the minds of all who gaze upon It an
event of pre-revolutionary days which
was then, and still is, regarded as one
of the first steps ou the road to citizen
ship in the American republic. The
monument stands on the spot once oc
cupied by Queen's College, the first lu
the United States, and In this ground
also the bodies of- many of Cornwallls'
soldiers found a resting place after
their encounters with the patriots.
The memorial is in Charlotte, N. C,
and Its dedication, recently, marked
the 125th anniversary of the signing of
the Mecklenburg declaration of inde
pendence. This famous document pre
ceded by many months the one drawn
up at Philadelphia, and in consequence
Is the first formal expression against
England formulated by the colonies.
The old log court house in which the
band of resolute men met to assert
their rights and the rights of their fel
low citizens then stood In lndepen-
HISTORIC COURT HOUSK AT CIIARLOTTK,
N. C.
deuce square, and the site Is marked by
a heavy iron plate recording the fact.
The resolutions were framed May 20,
1775, and. while many historians claim
to doubt their existence, the document
undoubtedly did exist and an abridged
copy of the original resolution has been
secured. The wording of the document
was very similar in parts to the Declar
ation of Independence, which was not
given birth until more than a year
later.
Pap i's Mistake.
The parents stood gazing with frown
ing brows at their daughter, while she
was trembling and weeping, prepara
tory to reading a letter found In the
girl's pocket. It began:
" 'Angel of my existence ' "
"What!" cried the old man. "Y'ou
don't mean to say it begins like that?
Oh, that a child of mine should corre
spond with But, pray proceed, my
dear." '
"'It Is Impossible for me to describe
the joy with which your presence has
filled me "
"Then why does he attempt It, the
donkey? But pray don't let me Inter
rupt you. Go ou go on, let the joy be
uucoufiued."
" 'I have spent the whole night In
bitterly deriding the obstinate old buf
fer, who will uot consent to our un
ion ' "
"Great Scott! So I'm an' obstinate,
disagreeable old buffer, eh? Oh, let
me get at him!"
"But, Theodoras, my dear, I didu't
see this over the leaf."
"Eh? Let me see. II'ui "
" 'Yours, with all the love of my
heart.-Theodorus, 10th May, lSuU "
"Why, bless my eyes, it's one of my
letters!" (Sensation.)
"Yes, pa," exclaimed the olive
branch. "I found it yesterday, only
you would not let me speak."
"You may go luto the garden, dear.
H'm, we've made a mess of it!" Lou
don Answers.
Old Goose,
Mrs. W. . Brown, who lives near
M liner, Pa., has a goose that is nearly
50 years old. The old goose has laid
yearly for forty years, uud each year
since 1854, up to two years ago, she has
hatched and raised goslings.
' '
RACED A TRAIN AGAINST Flftfc.
Burning: Car Pulled Into Des Moines
in Time to Be Saved.
William S. Night tells a very strange
story of a chair car In a Chicago Great
Western Railroad train that was atire
aud full of passengers with the train
at full speed, 'it was one of the
strangest things I ever experienced,"
said he, "and all the trainmen, includ
ing the superintendent of the road,
were in a quandary to know the cause
of the car's catching on fire. We were
about seven miles from Des Moines
when smoke was discovered curling out
from under the middle of the first chair
cur, aud seemed to have spread toward
both ends. It had not started uear. the
whetls, for it was in the center of the
car, aud that would do away with any
theory of a hot box.
"Well, what to do was a little prob
lem for the conductor of the train to
solve. The lire could not be stopped
without a hose and water power to
throw the water back toward both ends
of the car, aud at that place In the
fields there were no such conveniences.
The lire had not yet eaten its way
through the floor, so the passengers
ueeded to have no fear. The engineer
and couductor with a few passengers
stood beside the car, undecided what
to do. If the train remained there the
coach nfltat necessarily have burned up
and would have 'laid out' the whole
road.
"The conductor suddenly conceived'a
plan aud immediately shouted.' 'All
aboard! Shove her through to Des
2uuinee ul full speed, Toiiim,' he yelled
to the engineer, and 'Tommy,' the large,
chubby engineer, covered with grease
and oil, waddled down to his engine a
fast as his short legs could carry him.
The conductor pulled the cord. Tommy
pulled the throttle wide open and sucli
a wild ride as we did have! It was a
race to see which was the faster, the
fire or the locomotive. The locomotive
won, and when we reached the yard
as Des Moines the fire had almost eaten
its way through the floor of the coacH.
It was quickly extinguished at the
edge of the yards by means of a hose '
attached to a water main, and we drew
into the depot ou time."
AMERICAN GRAVES IN MEXICO.
Railroad Lines Dotted with Mounds
. Marked by a Simple Cross.
How many of tlie hundreds of Amer
ican tourists who make a trip through
Mexico have ever noticed the little
wooden crosses that line every railroad
route through the country, and how
ninny of those who have noticed them
know that in most instances they mark
the grave of some compatriot who has
met sudden death through some acci
dent? To those uufamlllar with Mexican
methods this may seem strange, but It
Is a fact that of the many Americans
who are killed on the railroads In Mex
ico very few me interred In conse
crated ground. Most of these pathetic
little grave marks have rotted off, and
now lie flat ou the graves, but they will
be replaced some day, for the native
Mexican of the lower class, with all his
hate of the "gringo," never allows it
grave long to remain unmarked if he
knows it." He is superstitious to the
last degree, and he firmly believes that
should he allow the day of his patron
saint to pass without his attending to
the graves in the Immediate vicinity of
his home he would forever be haunted
by the spirit of , the neglected grave's
occupant.
On the Rascon mountains, probably
the most dangerous piece of railroad
track In the republic, there are 303 of
these little crosses in about thirty-two
miles, and almost without exception
they mark the graves of American rail
road men. These graves are scattered
all over the mountainside, but In every
case they are just where the inquest, If
there was one, was held.
The Interment of the dead In Mexico
Is a very expensive matter. For a time
the railroad men who went from the
States to operate the roads there tried
to give to all Americans who were kill
ed on their division a decent burial,
but the tax on the few permanent ones
was too great, and the plan was prac
tically abandoned.
Try In to Start a Fashion.
An Incident occurred on a Darby cat
the other day which shows conclusively
that tho average woman Is well able to
take car of herself aud her own. The
car was crowded and when the mother
ly looking woman came In, leading it
little boy by the hand, none of the men
arose to give her a seat. At this point
a uewsuoy eniereu nnu tne woman call
ed him to her quickly and bought :i
newspaper. Then, lu a deliberate man
ner, amid the chagrin of the male pas
sengers nnd the amusement of the con
ductor, the woman spread her newspa
per on the floor of the car, seated her
self there, and took the boy In her lap.
After this she snld to a shame-faced
man who arose with an apologetic air
to offer her a seat: "No, sir; I don't
accept courtesies from a man who Is so
reluctant to extend them as you have
been. I hope to start the fashion of
making you men as polite as your fa
thers used to be. but I am afraid the
task Is a hivy one." Philadelphia
Record.
When a man needs a tooth pulled,
bow numerous dental signs arel