LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER.
CHA8. F. ADA K. SOULE, Pubi.
TOLEDO OREGON.
A good, sound spanking might make
the King of Spain a better king.
The milk of human kindness gets
sour If allowed to stand too long.
No man ever fell Into the snares of
a temptress If he didn't want to bit
enured. -
An exchange advertises a "forced
sale of pianos." Are the neighbors
forcing It?
The seriousness of a political bolt
cannot always be determined by the
noise It m ukes.
King Alfonso Is said to be thinking
of having a punching bag fixed up ut
one side of the throne..
Charity begins at home, and In the
vast majority of cases It never ven
tures out of the house.
It Ib always safe to whoop for the
Monroe doctrine. Few people know
What It Is, and those who do ure in fa
vor of It
at night and He abed too long In the
morning. They never can get ahead In
that way. Times and conditions may
change, but the old rule remains that
there is no success without everlast
ingly keeping at it." The trouble with
the majority of young men Is that they
get the swelled head. They achieve a
little success and then believe they can
neglect their duties and that things
will naturally gravitate their way. The
histories of all successful men prove
that they are persons who have contin
ued at work. They watch little things
and big things, and they keep everlast
ingly at It Work Is the winning horse
In the great handicap of life; idleness is
never In the money when the numbers
are posted.
The only financial crisis the Sultan of
Turkey fears is a dun, accompanied by
a stiff ultimatum and backed by a fleet
of war vessels.
If the Turkish Sultan ever goes globe
trotting he may be Inclined to distribute
his unparalleled assortment of ulti
matums us souvenirs.
A woman has committed suicide be
cause her husband refused to let her
go fishing with him. He probably
realizes now what a sucker be was.
It Is difficult to see why the President
should consider the trust problem a
hard one to settle, when there is E.
ItunJ. Andrews standing around settl
ing greut problems every few minutes.
"Strenuous" is now the most popular
word In Ixtndon, threatening even to
push "blooming" to one side. The
President has made a world-wide hit
with "strenuous." Mr. Cleveland's "in
nocuous deseutudu" did not cross the
ocean.
Frenchmen In America are planning
to put up a monument in Newport.
Ithode Island, In honor of Admiral do
Terniiy, who commanded the fleet
which brought ltochauibcau and bis
soldiers to Amor leu. The monument
will stand near the situ of the pier at
which the French troops disembarked,
and will be a fitting memorial of u
worthy olllcer.
The Judiciary systems of nearly all
the States of the Union stand in need of
such revision as will tend toward expe
diting the trial and final determination
of criminal cases, both for the purpose
of Impressing more strongly the crim
inal classes, and with n view to the bet
ter equalization of the conditions ami
opportunities confronting the various
clnses of defendants. '
A department has been established in
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology to reduce to an exact science
the prevention of tires. This may be
accomplished, first, by planning the
construction of buildings In such a
manner as to reduce danger of fire to
a minimum; second, by devising means
for the rapid extinction of any blaze
that gains headway, Considering that
the tire waste In the I'nltetl States has
been Increasing for the last five years
In the face of Improvements in the
fire departments and equipment, and
that the loss lust year was $ l.VMHKMKMi,
It Is certainly time nil Intelligent effort
was made to eliminate avoidable danger.
When President Hoosevelt turns from
the trusts and the tariff to the debt of
the nation to the farmer he gets upon
ground occupied by all Intelligent read
ers of American history. There may
be room for difference of opinion as to
effective remedies for monopoly and
as to what we should do for Cuba, but
when It comes to the contribution of
the farmer to our statesmanship, to
our scholarship, to our commercial in
tegrity and financial solidity, to the
moral fiber of our citizenship, there can
be no ground for controversy. What
the farmer and the farmer's sons are
doing for the preservation of those
Ideals that He at the basis of the re
public Is not a political issue. That the
President's eloquent tribute to the
fnrmor nrt tho fnlr irronTiflfl nt Knnfror.
Me., will not be challenged in the whole
wide republic Is no reason why such
tributes should go unspoken'. It is fit
ting that the acknowledgments of the
nation to the Influence and power of
the agricultural classes should find pub
lic expression. While the business of
agriculture has changed along with
other systems of Industrial endeavor,
the Influences which breed the strong
men lu finance, commerce and state
craft are still at work in the country.
Touching this phase of the country life
the President said: "Conditions have
changed in the country far less than
they have changed in the city, and In
consequence there has been little
breaking away from the methods of life
which have produced the great major
ity of the leaders of the republic In
the past. Almost all of our great Pres
idents have been brought up In the
country, and most of them worked
hard on the farms In their youth and
got their early mental training In the
healthy democracy of farm life. The
forces which made these farm-bred
boys leaders of men when they had
come to their full manhood are still at
work in our country districts." Farm
ing lias progressed along with other
lines of productive Industry. Old meth
ods have been discarded. Farming
grows more scientific every year. There
Is greater diversification of crops, and
farming Is no longer the life of monot
onous drudgery that It was In the ear
lier days of the republic. It is the most
Independent and satisfying vocation on
earth, and with the great number of
labor-savlug Inventions that mechani
cal genius has contributed to husband
ry It Is In many respects the most en
joyable. But the country has not
change.l. It is the same healthful at
mosphere, the same uplifting environ
ment And It Is from the farm that
the republic must continue to draw
most of the strong meu In commerce,
politics and in society.
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II. A. HAX.VA.
POLITICS SHOULD INTEREST EVERY MAN.
By Marcus A. tlanna, United States Senator from Ohio.
It you do not make it a point to interest
yourself in politics actively, I mean to
work for the best principles and to sup
port the best candidates, you are not a
good citizen. Your country is a collec
tion of individuals. Its power results
.'. from the union of these individuals. Your
country gives you tremendous benefits.
It protects you in the enjoyment of your
life, your liberty and your haziness. It
guards your home, your family, hold tip
high ideals for you and your children.
: What return do you make for all this?
Think the matter over. Do you hon
estly think you do as much as you should do?
The government of your country begins with the neighbor
hood caucus the caucus that 1b held just a few blocks from
where you live. It works up from the caucus to the city,
county, State and national conventions, from the township
board to the United States House of Kepresentatives, the
Senate and the White House. Do you attend your caucus?
Do you care to know when or where it will be held? Would
yon give up your least Important business or social engage
ments to attend it? Let each man answer these questions
for himself. The man who does not discharge this plain duty
is not the citizen he should be. Politics would be on a higher
plane If all the citizens interested themselves in the caucus.
If you want to do something for your country you always
have the chance if you are in politics. No doubt you would
respond to a call to arms. Of course you would, you say. Then
why don't von ro;uinl to the imnlent demand? In the matter
of working for the Interests of this country there must be no
distinction between classes. Each man as a man must do his
duty. He must prove that he is worthy of the suffrage by in
teresting himself in tbe government of his own community.
FUTURE OF THE INDIAN.
Will "duAtlon save the remnant of American
Indians? Yes, as men and women; not as tribes.
The Indians as a peculiar, distinct, separate semi
barbarous people are doomed to disappear. ludlanisin
is an anachronism and must pass away.
Education Is the only hope of the red men and
women; it offers them salvation. Those who accept It
will be saved as American citizens. Those who refuse it will
perish.
What I mean by this is that It Is Inevitable that the Indians,
like all other elements In our national life, must become ob
sorbed by the. nation and lose their distinctive racial peculiari
ties, the one exception to this probably being the negro.
It Is Impossible that the Indians should maintain their
tribal organizations with separate governments, being a sort of
nation within a nation, and have their own peculiar civiliza
tion; it is both undesirable and impossible.
Education is the means of bringing the Individual Indians
Into such relationship with our national life that they will
desire the same things which the white people desire. They
will adopt our ideals or individual hope, cease to think and
feel like Indians and feel and think only as American citixeu.
quaintance as compared with that of his forefathers is simply
enormous. The acquaintances of any busy man In the busy
hive of twentieth century Industry are numbered not by the
score nor by the hundred but by the thousand.
2. With an increased humanitarianism under which men
are more truly brothers than ever before, there is no need in
ordinary cases for the formation of friendship's link, at least
as a means of mutual succor and support
8. Moreover, the very wear and tear of modern life. Its
ceaseless and increasing struggle In the teeth of ever fiercer
competition in all walks of life, the effort that is needed to
gain a livelihood or make, a naf nl! these leave scanty leis
ure and small Inclination for fo.uilng new friendships or even
keeping up those already formed.
Friendship, however, perhaps has not changed so much in
degree as in kind. No arguments are needed to establish the
admitted truth that the social Intercourse of the sexes, which
now supplies so many of the closest and most exalted friend
ships, was in former years far less satisfactory than under
modern civilization it has now become. Indeed, in most cases
It was simply non-existent.
And in this great and almost magical elevation of woman
kind mentally, physically and morally, Is to be found what I
called just now one of those providential compensations that
are frequently to be met with when at first sight one is apt to
imagine tb,at such and such a virtue that flourished in the' good
old times is beginning to fall into decay.
President Roosevelt lias decided to
recommend that Congress nuthorlze the
Commercial Cable Company to lay u
cable across the Pacific to the Philip
pines and thence to China. According
to the terms of the provisional agree
ment the government Is to reserve the
right to control the cable In time of war
and to buy the franchises and property
of the Cable Company In the Pacific
cable at nu appraised valuation, to fix
the rates for messages, and to prescribe
the siccd at which messages shall be
transmuted. If Congress approves the
agreement we shnll have n semi-private
cable that may become public when
ever the government chooses to exer
cise Its option.
"In this life, as s rule, the Job that Is
eny to do Is not very well worth the
doing." Few more pertinent epigrams
than this have ever been voiced. The
speaker was President Uevelt.
whose life proves that he has followed
the axiom which tie voices. Along these
same lines are the words of George W
Perkins, who Is right baud mail to J.
PieriKiut Morgan, and who snld recent
ly: "Too many yonug men In this couu-
try don't want to work hard. Tlioy pre
fer to Inks things easy stay up late
Kccpng Car Heats Pry.
An English commercial traveler re
siding at lAed8 he ought to have been
n Yankee drummer in order to make
the story consistent appears to have
solved the hitherto lnwoluble problem
of providing a dry sent in an open
street car In wet weather, lie has
adopted the principle of the roller-
topped desk. When the cover Is on
the ordinary electric car suggests a
double-docked railway saloon; when It
Is off the vehicle resumes Its usual
aspect, with the addition of the l.ght
circular girders which sustain the
roller covering In position, says the
I .cods Mercury. To remove the roller
covering nil that Is necessnry to be
done Is to release It and allow It to de
scend Into casements provided for It
at the sides of tbe car. This It docs In
three sections on each side first the
windows for windows are provided
and then successively the other two
sections, the casement accommodating
them side by side. The roller covering
s sandwiched with India rubber and
thus made not only water-proof but
also electric proof.
J. i. 1ULL.
FORMATION AND CONTROL OF TRUSTS.
By J. J. Hill, President of Great northern Rallwav.
ine only serious objection to so-called
trusts has been the method of creating
them not for rhe purpose of manufactur
ing any public commodity in the first
place, but for the purpose of selling
sheaves of printed securities which rep
resent nothing more than good will and
prospective profits to the promoters.
If it is the desire of the general gov
ernment, through Consress. to nrevant
the growth of such corporations. It hn
always seemed to me that a simple remedy was within its
reach. Under the constitutional provision allowing Congress
to regulate commerce between the States all companies deslr
lug to transact business out of the State in which they are
Incorporated should be held to a uniform provision of -federal
law. They should satisfy a commission that their capital stock
was actually paid up In cash or in property, at a fair valuation
just as the capital of the national bank is certified to be paid up.'
With that simple law the temptation to make companies for
the purpose of selling prospective profits would be at an cud,
uuu ui me iuiud lime no legitimate Dusiness would suffer.
IS FRIENDSHIP DYING OUT?
By Rev. J. Hudson, British Zssavlst.
There Is an apt .rent decay of friendship, and If
we inquire into the reason of this I think we luiirht
attribute it to one or other of all of the following
causes or circumstances:
1. In these days of rapid communication by dpi
and laud, in the frequent and incessant congregation
and congestion of human beings for purposes of iml-
ness and pleasure which is such a characteristic In the age In
which we live, the numerical increase of every man's sc-
Pulque for Consumptives.
One of the reasons why Mexico Is tak
ing the lead as a health resort Is that
the national Intoxicant of Mexico,
pulque, made from the agave, or cen
tury plant, Is one of the best remedies
In cast's of asthma and consumption
known. Unfortunately, pulque Is only
good when freshly fermented, and will
not bear transMrtiitlou. and for that
reason one has to go to Mexico to drink
It. The value of pulque In consump
tion was discovered several years ago
by American Invalids, who weut to
Mexico for their health, and who were
almost cured by drinking small quanti
ties of liquor at stated Intervals. It Is
now recommended by physicians to all
persons troubled with pulniouary complaints.
ANNEX CUBA AS A TERRITORY.
By Representative Robert G. Cousins, otlowa.
I cannot see any assured happiness for
the Cuban people, and 1 mean, of course,
vuuiiuerciui prosperity wiieu I say uus,
except through annexation. I have al
ways believed that to be the only solution
of one of the most vexatious problem
that has ever confronted the people of
the United States, to whom Cuba looks
as a tiild toward its parent The men
who represent the business interests of
the island have always favored annexa
tion, and to-day they desire it more than
ever. I think it rather premature when
Cuba is spoken of as a possible State in
our Union. That is so remote that it is
a waste of time to consider it
The bone and sinew of the island, the thinking men there,
who have the best interests of their country at stake, desire
a political alliance with the United States, for without It they
cannot occupy a 'position which gives them standing commer
cially with other countries. I fear the first outbreak will come
from the laboring class, and such a happening would be most
disastrous. Ix-t Cuba come in as a territory before internecine
strife brings back to her once more the devastation and misery
she suffered through Spanish tyranny.
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BOUT. O. COUSINS.
COLLEGE COURSE MUST BE SHORTENED.
By President Harper, University of Chicago.
The feeling grows stronger in every quarter that
the college course, at least for those who are to en
gage in a profession, must be shortened. Many men
who are preparing for a profession are distinctly in
jured by the last year or two in college. There are
some men for whom the college atmosphere, as dis
tinguished from that of the professional school, is not
a wholesome one. Men who in college idle away their time
in many cases find the more strenuous life of professional train
ing exactly suited to their needs.
It does not seem that the Harvard plan of three years
meets with general favor, even in Cambridge, although, accord
ing to the official report, 40 per cent of the men now graduat
ing from Harvard College finish their academic work in three
years. It would seem to be a better plan to allow those who
do not contemplate a professional course of study to take the
full four years of work in college and to arrange for the other
doss to count their early professional work as a part of the
work accepted for the bachelor's degree. A great forward
step In the direction of this policy has been taken In the reeeut
action of Yale. This policy has been adopted as the basis for
the organization of the schools of medicine and law In the
University of Chicago. It U the most practical solution of the
problem which confronts us and bids fair to be the commonly
accepted solution within a short time.
CHARACTER VS. SALARY.
By George 6. Wllllamm.
Men who are trusted with such large amounts
ought not to be too young, for temptations are strong
er with the young than with those who have arrived
at more mature years and have experienced the severe
trials of many temptations.
It goes without saying that men who are trusted
with lorge amounts of security i, L
paid than those who duties sre of les. Importance and whose
position, are without special responsibility: But so far s!
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mind it is a question of the man and not of the salary.
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FLU 8 AND ADMINISTRATION.
Much Is Being Dons Toward a Batter
Understand Inc.
The present administration Is opposed
to flies and is fighting them through the
Department of Agriculture. Dr. How
ard, chief of the division of entomology,
Is the general directing the campaign,
which Is being prosecuted at present
chiefly by the distribution of pamphlets
telling about all sorts of flies, their vari
ous habits and dangerous propensities.
For tbe better study of them 2,300 were
caught In kitchens and dining rooms lu
all parts of the country and put on trial.
says writer In Harper's Weekly. Of
these. 08 per cent were common bouse
flies. Tlie house fly does not bite or
sting. The greatest danger from htm
arises from bis neglect to wipe his feet
He will tramp over filth and Infected
matter and straightway track his accu
mulation over anything that any near
by family may be having for dinner. It
la easier to discourage tiles altogether
than to teach them better habits. Gen
eral Kutoiuologlst Howard talks of a
war of extermination, but the first and
most practicable thing to do Is to teach
people In general as much as posslblo
about flies; when and where they breed
and why they are dangerous. It Is well
known thnt stables are great nurseries
of files. It seems hopeless to attempt
to regulate stables so that files wou't
breed In them, but a good deal can be
done by the use of knowledge and of
sense; and where stables are so placed
that their files are particularly annoy-1 will have litti. iimi.
ing the use of chloride of lime will help as "he 2.1 " tT. 'D 'lmpln "
matters very much. The great central
truth about files and the danger from
them seems to be, the cleaner the place
the fewer the flies and the less danger
from those thnt are there. Common
files do not secrete poison; they merely
carry It. Don't leave any poison around
where they can get at It Bury filth;
keep garbage In proper receptacles, and
remove It promptly.
ARTISTIC TIN VASES.
Several women In Germany are now
making beautiful and artistic orna
ments and household utensils out of
tin. Apparently the first to utilize
her talents In this direction was Frau
Clara lloppenrath. of Berlin. She fash
ioned artistic tin vase, and since then
she bss made a beautiful Imitation of
a cluster of silver thistles, which has
been bought by the King of Komnnnla
Tin Is an easy metal to manipulate.
and any woman who Is a good arttst
s she desires. The ., " 'T "
be carefully drawn on t7e Un. T mb r
punched in It and then a. clrefuUy
"T "ur- ana fe necessary skill
In their use can soon h . "
w.ialv un ornaments are now
becoming popular In Germany .7.
u," uem sr made by wo"
Stereotyped. Phrase.
Tsther late." do not mean anything if
,k "n literally? 1
httie dInl0KU from the V A
Star Is a case In point
"Did any of the Inhabitant, escaue
with hi. lifer Inquired the nwT
wants harrowing details.
"I didn't stop to ascertain." answered
the man who Is harrowlngly exact
"It struck me that if anyLJy
caned without hi. Hf there wasn't
much use In bl. escaping, anyhow."
Paper Clothing in Japnn.
The lower class of the Japanese em
ploy hardly any other material than
paper for their clothing. Where wages
are exceedingly low cloth Is an Im
possible extravagance.
When a boy goes to a party, ha
doesn't care about refreshments; be
wants something to eat
Life Is one contliuous rouud of un
finished bj1ncsv