Lincoln County leader., January 16, 1903, Image 2

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CHii. T. ADA X. SOULK,
TOLEDO.
.OREGON.
A few reverses do not discourage the
girl who is learning to waltz,
Some officeholders seem to forgot the
time when they were office-seekers.
With the exception of the reason it
self, a woman has a reason for everything.
Some people who give skim milk to
the poor expect the Lord to credit It as
cream.
Unless his wife's relations are rich
and distinguished, the average man is
never interested in them.
The man who saves up something for
a rainy day is the one who knows
enough to go in when it rains.
Buffalo Bill is going to quit after two
years more of it. Russell Sage must
pity him for his lack of enterprise.
In this mechanical age the mechani
cal man mny not reach the highest
honors, but he is generally able to pay
rent
High noon Is the proper hour for a
wedding in high life. When It comes
to a divorce any old hour Is good
enough.
Possibly General Corbin's advice to
young army officers not to marry was
put forth in the interest of the future
pension roll.
That anarchist who shot at King
Leopold three times without hitting
him must have graduated from some
detective force.
The election was a failure In one
thing nobody lmd to wheel a fat man
two miles to pay a fool bet Perhaps
we are gutting more civilized.
Some earnest souls get excited be
cause a platfrom doesn't suit them, but
the astute politician waits until after
election, and then he doesn't do a thing
to it
Dr. Harper may be right in declaring
that the church is "alienating the rich,"
but he has the satisfaction of knowing
that he Is entirely Innocent of such folly
himself.
Dancing Is said to be going out of
fashion. This must be due to the fact
that so many society people after play
ing bridge whist have no money to
Iay the llddler.
No sane person will defend Anarchist
Rubiuo's attempt to kill Leopold, King
of the Belgians. Leopold Is not of the
type of man that needs killing. A
Bound kicking is about his size.
Mr. Morgan has given one cent to a
charitable organization. Let us hope
the gentleman will not be compelled
now to go without things that would
have a tendency to increase his comfort
Gompers fears a war of the unions.
Goinpors knows human nature. Com
bination leads to power, and power
leads to disintegration, owing to the
desire of many people to use the power
for many diverse purposes.
American school teachers In the
riillllpplnes do not need to teach the
young idea how to shoot. The young
Idea already knows how and practices
on the teacher when there Is no Ameri
can garrison in the Immediate neigh
borhood. ,
A whole year has passed without a
Plngle case of yellow fever originating
In Havana. This is one result of
American occupation of Cuba. Ths
United States has a vital interest in
the 1 continuance of this satisfactory
snnltAry condition, as well as In tint
establishment of wholesome political
conditions In the island.
The love letters produced In evidence
In a suit which attracted considerable
attention recently demonstrate once
more the nwt'ul results following the
conjunction of an Ink bottle, a quire
of note paper and an amorous young
man. Kvery time one of these affairs
becomes public It emphasizes the folly
of teaching male children to write.
People on this side of the line may
talk of annexation sentiment In Can
ada, but no such talk Is heard In Can
ada Itself. The truth Is that the Ca
nadian brother hates us and all our
works, his only leniency being shown
to Ainerlcau embezzlers who take
shelter In the dominion with enough
money to pay their footing, says the
Chicago Chronicle. There Is no more
prospect of annexing Canada than
there Is of annexing Kngluud Itself.
By n French chemist. Is claimed the
Invention of a method of compressing
en nlr Into tabloids. Those, there
fore, who wish for a change of air will
lu future only have to go to the nearest
chemist's and buy a bottle of Margate
tabloids or half a dozen Rivera pas
tilles. So long as the drugs are prop
erly dispensed the invention will be
welcome. It would be unpleasant to
ask for Bournemouth pastilles and to
receive instead the Cologne (not the
eau do Cologne) variety. The latter
form has seventy-nine distinct smells.
The reading clubs that are studying
the life of Sir Philip Sidney, who was
born just three hundred and forty
eight years ago, have a fine opportuni
ty to weigh the comparative value to
civilization of the chivalrous deed that
attracts attention and the every-day
usefulness that does not get into books.
Sidneys can never be too common; yet
it is true that the world's advance Is
won not so much by the exceptional
hero or genius as by "the quiet men
who speak the truth, pay their debts,
do their work thoroughly, and are sat
isfied with their just rewards."
Some of the bravest, best-hearted
men of the world nre addicted to the
habit of profane swearing on occasion.
They do not mean anything in partic
ular. They employ the language for
mere emphasis. At the same time, any
clean-minded person who uses profan
ity will apologize for the habit. Why
persist in doing something for which
one is obliged to apologize? Look
about you. Listen to a swearing boy.
He has caught the lowest oaths that
come from the lowest and vilest sur
roundings. Along with the profane
and indecent words you realize the
fact the boy must have profane and
Indecent thoughts. Suppose It were
your own boy? And why not if you
use profane language? You are his
exemplar. Hear a woman curse and
swear. Does It not go through one
like an electric shock? The ideal of
womanhood Is dragged down. Hu
manity is debased by it. One grows
sick at heart. You feel the brute side
of humanity. The distance between
womanhood and a thing seems all the
distance between heaven and hell. "It
sounds so differently from a woman."
There's your double standard of mo
rality a false standard that has
wrought Incredible mischief. But
agnin: Does the swearer realize what
It means to bandy sacred words? Has
lie not lost appreciation of delicacy?
The name of God ought never to be
spoken save In reverence, spoken when
the heart is tender and a prayer is in
the soul. There re those about one
who hold the name in awe and who
love and trust the Great Beneficence.
How shall they feel when a name, which
is to them above every name, is drag
ged Into the mud of careless speech?
As you would not couple the name of
your mother or wife or daughter In
coarse ribaldry so you should not take
In vain the name of the noble Nnza
reno. There are worse habits than
swearing many worse. There nre
those who have never sworn an oath
who are llurs, thieves, hypocrites, mur
derers. That Is true. Nevertheless
the man who doesn't swear has the
better chance to be n decent, courteous,
self-respecting gentleman.
Roland B. Molineux, who was ad
judged guilty of murder nearly four
years ago, has been acquitted by a Jury
of his peers. The second trial presented
marked differences from the first. Judge
Lambert, a country Judge, who presid
ed, displayed singular fairness, good
judgment, and patience, lu sharp con
trast to Recorder Goff, whose attitude
toward the defense lu the first trial was
the subject of criticism, sharp, If not
harsh. Evidence daniagalng to Moli
neux, chlctly lu the form of letters
which the Recorder admitted, was de
clared by the Court of Appeals to have
been Improperly admitted. In the first
trial the prosecuting attorney had ev
erything his own way. All the testi
mony he wished to Introduce wns let In.
The State Is often at a disadvantage
in a second trial. Some of its witnesses
cannot be found, ns was the case in the
second trial of Molineux. Ills long Im
prisonment and suffering must have in
tluenced the Jury a little. All of these
intlueuces, of course, operated to secure
an acquittal for him. The court found
It necessary to reprove Mr. Osborne, the
prosecuting attorney, whose eagerness
t secure a conviction exceeded all rea
sonable bounds. It Is possible for a
State's Attorney to show too much zeal
lu his efforts to send a man to the gal
lows. The trial was conducted with an
orderliness and dispatch which were
creditable to the country judge who was
taken to New York to preside over this
Important trial. The court's summing
up of the evidence was admirable. No
one can review the whole case with sat
isfaction. It has been at once n farce
and a tragedy. Murder was done, and.
In spite of great efforts on the part of
the State, the murderer Is still at large.
Molineux has been acquitted, but only
after four years In prison and nfter his
family has been nearly bankrupted. If
he had been a poor man he would have
been hanged. His acquittal Is the result
of the unwavering courage of his fath
er, who throughout the struggle retain
ed the best counsel In New York. There
Is much room for Improvement when It
costs a father his fortune to establish
his son's Innocence, or when a prosecut
ing attorney suggests that a rich man
cannot be convicted of murder.
REFORMING INEBRIATE WOMEN IN ENGLAND.
By lady Henry Somerset.
The homes for friendless girls in London are well estab
lished, and the homes for inebriate women, so sadly needed,
are well started, well patronized and are already a success.
We use nothing but kind words to reclaim
the unfortunate women with whom we
come in contact, and that has proved to be
the best way. Locking up a woman in
prison is not the way to reform her. When
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y light work to do, and everything around
1 her is arrarged so that nothing of her old
m life will be present in her habits.
JVC - Another factor contributing to the ad
vance made in the cause or temperance in
i-ady somerset. England is the conviction on the part of
the general public that there is too much drinking through
out Great Britain. The people themselves the working
class, the tradesfolk and the better middle class are all be
ginning to see that drunkenness Is one of the curses of civili
zation and that temperance Is Its only cure. As to the
upper classes, the nobility, the cause has never been very
popular there, but I really think that there are a better
understanding and a beginning of sympathy among the
upper classes. But in England we have centuries and cen
turies of custom back of us, and it Is hard to break through
and see that there is light on the other side.
DISREGARD OF SUNDAY DEPLORED.
By Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore.
A close observer cannot fail to note the dan
gerous Inroads that have been made on the
Lord's day in this country during the last thirty
years. Look at the railroad lines in this coun
try; not only are the passangers carried on Sun
days,, which I believe Is unavoidable, but freight
trains are in full operation. This traffic involves
the employment of thousands of conductors, fire
men, and engineers, as well as freight handlers,
on the Lord's day. Then observe our system of electric
cars.- These lines are in full blast on Sundays, and the
conductors and motormen have to serve the same number
of hours on that day as on week days.
On Sunday mornings the business man is debarred
from going to his place of business, but seizes the morning
paper and devours its contents of twenty or thirty pages,
Its news of stocks and bonds, or pleasures and amusements,
of crime and scandal, until his whole being Is saturated
with this unhealthy diet. Like animals gorged with food,
he spends the morning In a comatose condition.
MONSTER EVIL OF OUR DAY.
By Adlal E. Stevenson, Ex-Vice President.
Existing conditions challenge the attention of
all thoughtful men. These conditions are confined
to no particular section, but exist throughout the
length and breadth of our country. Notwith
standing our .boasted prosperity and the Individual
fortunes that have suddenly been acquired, the
6ad fact remains that to, the mass of the people
this oft repeated boast of prosperity is but a
mockery. Svithln a brief time articles of daily
consumption the foods essential to human health and
comfort have enormously increased in cost Meat at
many tables Is Indeed an article of luxury. The much
vaunted prosperity Is that of the favored few. To the
mass of the people conditions have seldom been more ex
acting,, rarely less hopeful, than at this moment. It were
worse than Idle to close our eyes to the discontent, the
feeling of unrest so general in this land. It Is the part of
wisdom to ascertain the cause and, if possible, to apply
the remedy.
The trust Is the crying evil of to-day. By combinations
of capital unknown to our earlier days, against public pol
icy, and In many Instances In direct violation of State laws,
11 ,inni Vino hnpn driven from the field, ttq ...
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not compete with the trust. Ills occupation Is gone.
field being clear, competition destroyed, the managers
various trusts fix prices to the consumer at their nl
pleasure. Is It possible that the people are indifferent $
this growing evil? It virtually destroys competition,
life of trade." In no small degree it usurps the function.
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Its own ra n. the trust nas greuuy lunraouu 10 tile cm
c.nor tim post, of articles of daily necessity. The shndiJ
of the trust has fallen upon every hearthstone In this lnndt'
and the end is not yet. The trust is the monster evil ol'
our day, a constant menace to our welfare as a people.
VALUE OF GOOD LOOKS TO BUSINESS WOMEN.
By Zcrllna RoscntieJd, Stenographer, Ner rerA
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a great way toward making a woman successful';
in business. But in saying this, I am not totm v
ful of the fact that plain-looking and even homeljl
women have been known to distance the others In!
the race. Take two women of the same average!;
ability and common sense, and the prettier of the
two will make the more rapid headway in tfoS
matter of promotion, and therefore will earn morJ"' .'
monev. I have heard it said, or rather I have seen it stated!:
in the newspapers, that good looks are a handicap to agw;
In search of a position; tnat many employers win not have ;
pretty girls in their offices, because they receive too muck1
attention from the clerks. f '
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ernlly it is not true. In most instances the young woma
of prepossessing appearance who is seeking a place wlll
secure an audience with the head of a firm when her plain t
looking sister would be turned away. There is no use nioral
izing over the situation and saying that merit ought to dls-f .
count good looks in such cases. We must take the world;
as we find it. t
Now, I want to sny a word about the treatment that;:
young women in omces receive iroiu me employers, ir you-. .
were to believe all you see In the sensational newspapers;.; .
you would have the opinion that a majority of the type-f
writers and stenographers accompanied their employers tor :
lunch, to the theater and other places of amusement and l -
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quets of American Beauty roses.
The truth Is that the number of girls of this class la s. .
smnll indeed in comparison with the thousands of vnnnr
women who earn their living in offices. Business men, ai
a rule, respect them and treat them in a gentlemanly man-i .
ner. xney nave too mucn wors to attend to during pusinessi
hours to devote any of their time to paying compliments to 1
their typewriters. Moreover, most men are proud and have!
too much regard for their reputations to pay marked atten-i
tion to young women in their own offices. Girls who have
been brought up properly, who are sensible and have wlD j
power need have no fear that they will not be treated with?
respect wherever they may be.
MORE MONEY IS NEEDED.
By James R. Keene, Stock Speculator.
There are no signs of diminution in the general pr
perity. Our foreign debt Is smaller than at any period of our
nisiory, and our resources are immeasur
ably greater. The industrial and railroad
outlook of the country Is thoroughly satis
factory. The greatest menace Is our
finnnclal system. When our business li
expanding and there is a growing demand
for funds, the United States treasury
withdraws money from circulation. The
financial stringency which we have pass
ed through has not been due to lack o(
prosperity; It has been the result of It
We must have circulation sufficient to
james r. keene. meet tne growing business of the country.
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THE RUINED CAMPANILE,
Strange Spectacle of the Celebrated
Square of Venice.
The crumbling of St Mark's cam
panile, Venice, some months ago wns
extraordinary in that no one wns
killed or injured of the hundreds who
might have been if It had swayed to
ward the old ducal palace forty feet
distant from its base and tore its way
through that musty pile which has
was the crowning glory. In descend
ing It leaned over enough to tear out
part of the front wall of the ducal pal
ace, otherwise no damage was done.
The immensity of tile campanile
could not be comprehended when It
stood the lofty sentinel overlooking
Venice and the Adriatic 330 feet in the
air. Now that it was turned Into de
bris, filling a space 300 feet long by
100 wide and 70 feet high, its colossal
proportions could be understood. Even
THE WRECKED CAMPANILE IN VENICE.
been defying the ages for centuries.
The lofty tower started to its demoli
tion after giving full' warning and
came down as gently as if some great
genii had purposely held It back to
nave those near by from destruction.
Not even great noise proclaimed its
undoing, but a huge cloud of dust
arose and settled for a time over the
bhj aquare of which for centuries it
tho Venetians who were born within
its shadow, and lived beneath It to
old age, did not realize Its mighty di
mensions until It was turned into a
crumbling mass.
To recover the figures and designs of
various kind used to embellish the
lofty pinnacles the great mass was
fenced In, the public excluded and la
borers set to work to sort oter the de
bris before consigning it to the barges
which carried it out to sea. Singularly
enough all the Iron and brass used to
ueautify the tower was recovered and
found to bo practically uninjured. Foi
a time a good-sized lump from the de
bris brought 25 cents. But the supply
soon outran the demand and souvenirs
of the catastrophe came to be had for
the asking. To-day the foundation Is
laid bare and swept clean of everytnlnr
tending to remind one of the catastro
phe. Money to build another campa
nile lyis been freely subscribed and al
ready more than half the amount that
will be required to restore it is pledged,
It Is expected the balance will be
raised before the new campanile li
completed.
United Suites Patents.
The Whole numlu- nf nonfa iUan1
hy the United States Tntent Office !
"'ore than 050.0(K), of which 45.000
were to foreigners. The number of
live patents is about 375,000.
Tlie industries and appliances upon
which the lnrger number' of patents
Have been Issued are, approximately,
xtoves and furnaces, 20.000; stenm en
Sines, H.ooo; railways, tracks, and
Harvesters, each 19 mm. ni,t
I! lion. 1 1 , cid-uiv 11"'-.
MK,0, bicycles. 0,000; pumps. 5,000; re
frigerating. 4.500; telephone, 4.000;
electrical railways, 3.000.
It has been estimated that the four
motion feed for sewing machine pat
uts earned $32,000,000 for Its owners,
a larger amount probably than any
other patent Issued prior to the Bell
telephone patent
Gold In rthodcla.
Southern Rhodesia's gold output In
May was the highest recorded, belnf
over 10,500 ounces.
Somehow cut-diamond rates are
ways higher than the original prices.
Sometimes men blow out the gas it
ter blowing in all their money. ,