Lincoln County leader., January 30, 1903, Image 2

LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER.
OH AS. T. JJDA X. SOUX.K, rvha.
TOLEDO OREGON.
7 A good epitaph la all right In Its
place, but it comes so late.
A man likes to hear a woman Kay
Ehe has never been' kissed, even if he
doesn't believe It.
Clothes may not make the man, but
the boy who puts on his first top hat
thinks they help a lot.
Why not prohibit shooting deer, end
thereby save the lives of many hunters
who are mistaken for them?
Another express flyer has gone into
the ditch. But what of it? We must
keep hustling, no matter what chances
we take.
St. Louis will make a tremendous hit
If it can secure the attendance of tho
ahkoond of Swat also at the world's
fair in 1004.
Another woman has been poisoned
by eating candy sent to her through
the mall. Evidently she did not read
the newspapers.
John L. Sullivan says this is a thank
less world. Still, there are foolish peo
ple who would be willing to take $1,
000,000 and call it quite generous.
A scieniiue puiht.ui who has been in
vestigating the phenomena of sleep
reaches the conclusion that many peo
ple go through life without ever having
been really wide awake.
The courts have decided that a one
legged man may, by the use of proper
appliances, be ulmost as good as new.
Perhaps the Judge was having rheu
matic twinges at the time the decision
was handed down.
A prober Into startling facts makes
the astonishing statement that It costs
us much yearly to keep a dog as it does
to keep sixty hens, and thirty hens will
lay 0,000 eggs while a dog will not lay
any. Go to the head.
An excited Halifax paper has Infor
mation of a plot on tho part of Uncle
Sam to annex Canada, and calls for
nu army of 600,000 to repel the Yankee
invader. If you doubt this you can
go to Halifax and usk the editor.
A woman is advertising In papers
"for a home In a family where there
are no children, no washing and good
wages." She should explaiu whether
6he will be satlstied with brussels car
pet in her room or whether she prefers
oriental rugs.
South American republics should not
forget that there are two sides to the
Monroe doctrine. It affords protection
and at the same time imposes obliga
tions. Because our policy saves these
vouutrles from the fear of acquisition
by European monarchies, it does not
release theiu from tho obligations of
courtesy and good behavior toward the
other nations of the world.
One of the things in this changing
world that ought to be preserved invio
late against the touch of Innovation is
apple pie. Properly constructed, with
an ingenlnous regard for hygiene und
for pleasing taste, an apple pie Is the
very apotheosis of cookery, and no to
ken of modern degeneracy is more
mournfully apparent than the great
scarcity of the sort of intelligence and
discrimination necessary to the pro
duction of apple pie, pure and mule
Hied, and divested of all adjuncts und
appurtenances which vitiate tho palate
end impair the digestion.
The work on the New York subway
.was lately brought to a standstill at
one point by a doll's five-cent hat. All
(was ready for an extenslvo blast. Peo
ple In the vicinity were fleeing at the
night of an Italian waving a piece of
red cloth fastened to a stick. The
.workman in the trench waited for the
signal to send off the blast. But tho
signal did not come. Something lmd
happened. A three-year-old girl was
being dragged to a placo of safety by
two poorly dressed women, wheu the
green-feathered hat of her pitiful doll
fell Into tho street. The Italian drop,
ped his flag as he hoard the child
scream with grief and saw tho catas
trophe. Ho seized the hat, rushed
across the street, gave it to the mother,
and In a moment the flag waved and
the arrested work went on.
It Is odd how we overlook the chil
dren at times. New York has Just
opened a babies' hospital. It Is the
first hospital In the world for the ex
clusive treatment of Infants. The need
of It has existed for years. Of course
most mothers believe that the place for
baby, sick or well, Is at home. That
Isn't truo In a great ninny homes In
cities. Thousands of people are crowd
ed Into quarters wbero disease Is In
vited by conditions and babies do not
stand much of a chance. Hospital
treatment would postpone many fuuer
als that aro caused as much by Impure
air, lack of proper treatment and
crowding, as by disease. In New York
for every 100 filled coffins twenty-six
contain babies under one year old, and
3(5 per cent of the deaths occur among
children under two years old. There
are 10,000 beds In the New York hospi
tals, and only twenty-one of them
were devoted to babies. That is why
the babies' hospital was organized and
constructed. It is expected to cut down
the death rate.
A man that has taken reasonable
care of himself ought not to be old at
firty. But at fifty . David Loeb of New
York felt that he had lived too long,
and so committed suicide. Loeb was
not poor. He retired from business
two years ago, "and had since seemed
despondent because he had nothing to
do." He was a bachelor. If Loeb had
married he would have had his wife
and children to love anf think of in
stead of being obliged to concentrate
his thoughts upon his bored self. It
keeps the heart young to be interested
In the welfare of others. Or if when he;
was in active business he had bad the
sense not to let It absorb him to the
exclusion of everything else he would
have remained young and able to en-,
Joy life. No man that desires to avoid'
a miserable old age will permit the
work habit to enslave him. He Willi
read books, go about among people,
form friendships, cultivate his tastes,'
ride a hobby do anything rather than!
narrow himself down to a money-making
routine that is sure to narden the
feelings and atrophy the mind, and so
make a walking mummy of him. Any
one ihul siurls v Uh a gund ciibiiiuiiou
and a decent outfit of brains should not
be exhausted at fifty. If he finds him
self world-weary and fatigued with
life at that age he has only himself
to blame. And he can freshen his spir
it and revive his energies by searching
out ways to do a little good. Loeb, if
he had become the friend and helper of
children, or had made It his business
to be a special providence to some poor
family in his neighborhood, would not
have been troubled with the despond
ency that led him to the disgraceful
crime of suicide.
Cynics have declared that tomb
stones are the greatest liars in the
world. This Is only another way of
saying that the ancient maxim "Tell
nothing save good of the dead" is re
spected everywhere. Humanity agrees
that anger, malice and hatred should
stop at the grave. Hence the grave
stone recites only the virtues of him
who sleeps beneath it and says noth
ing of his failings and weaknesses. It
must be admitted, however, that in
some cases charity Is heavily drawn
upon In the effort to find virtues to
ascribe to the deceased, and It is this
consideration, undoubtedly, which has
influenced tho clergymen of Hamilton,
Ohio, to declare by a unanimous vote
that they will no longer preach funeral
sermons save In cases where they can
conscientiously ascribe , to the dead
merits warranting eulogy. They de
cline any longer to compete with the
tombstones in indiscriminate prulae of
people simply because those people are
dead. There Is something to be said
for this attitude of tho clergymen. A
philosopher once put the case thus: A
dead rascal Is no more admirable than
a live rascal save that ho is Incapable
of further rascality. Why, therefore,
should he be eulogized? This state
ment of the proposition appears logical
and It no doubt appeals with particular
force to clergymen, who, from their
very profession, may be supposed to
deprecate any departure from the truth
even in deference to the tradition "De
mortuls nil nisi bonuni." Whatever
licenso in elegalc matters may be per
mitted to tombstones or even to men
not in holy orders, it must be conceded
that silence is after all the highest
charity which may reasonably ho ex
pected of a preacher. The clerics of
Hamilton, Ohio, have done wisely and
seemingly In resolving to lenvo post
mortem eulogies of doubtful veracity
to the tombstones. Heaven lies about
us in our Infancy, but the clergyman
cannot afford to He about us when we
tire dead. The storied urn must do
that.
Hcsulted in His Marriage,
"Would you call stealing a kiss lar
ceny?" queried the inexperienced
young man.
"I suppose so." replied the married
man, who was hustling from dawn to
dusk to support his family.
"What Is the penalty?"
"Why, I stole a kiss one time and
was sentenced to hard labor for life."
Philadelphia Record.
How to Make llrntna Appreciated.
"Which do you think should be more
highly esteemed, money or brains?"
"Brains," answered Senator Sor
ghum. "But nowadays the only way a
man can convince people that he has
brains Is to get money." Washington
Star.
Motor Mail Vans.
The British postofllco authorities
have decided to substitute motor vans
for those drawn by horses In Bonie
of tho Manchester suburbs.
The average man doesn't amount to
much wheu measured by his neighbor's
standard.
Itil TRUST NO NEW DANGER.
By n. E. InuaUs, President Big four Railway.
Is there danger in the future from
the great business combinations that
are now being made from the trusts?
You hear it on every street corner. At
every gathering men are inquiring and
discussing it. Has the struggle between
capital and labor actually commenced
and is the conflict irrepressible? My
observation in the last twenty-five years
has been that labor has steadily won
and capital lost in the struggle which
always exists more or less. The com
pensation of labor has constantly risen,
it. e. inoaixs. the cost of the necessities or me imo
decreased. On the other hand, the earnings of capital
have grown less and less each year, and the responsibility
and trouble of , keeping it employed has increased. The
rate of Interest in this country is only about one-half what
It was twenty-five years ago. A citizen who retired from
business then and decided to live on his Income is to-day
in comparatively poor circumstances. In other words, Ii
he has stood still he. has seen the Interest upon his capital
cut in two, while his expenses have at the best stood still.
Capital has been able to exist and increase only when it
has been actively employed, and if it has been active it
has had to employ labor In order to exist. Has the danger
to labor increased by the organization of the vast combi
nations of to-day? The trust is no new danger. It is an
aggregation of capital under a new name. It may be a
greater one, but it is only a large coipoiuuou the out
growth of business and competition. How to control It is
the question.
Publicity and taxation, all agree, is one way of con
trolling and keeping the trusts within the limits. Let the
full light of day be turned on all their actions, all their
statements and all their accounts, and provide either by n
franchise or license tax that they shall pay their fair share
of the burdens of the people.
We must, so far as possible, protect our small landhold
ers. In their hands is the future of the Republic. So far,
therefore, as It can be done by legislation our small prop
erty holders should be encouraged and they should be pro
tected; their burden should be made as light as possible
and capital should be made to pay its fair share of the
burdens of the Stnte. Large ownerships of land should be
discouraged and prevented.
POSSIBILITIES OF AGRICULTURE.
By Secretary ot Agriculture James Wilson.
Agriculture Is a vast field, and only the smallest part ot
It has yet been covered. The government is devoting spe
cial attention to the subject, and at present there are agri
cultural experiment stations In every
State in the Union. Look at some of
the work the department has accom
plished. We are trying to improve
corn until It shall have as much value
as wheat as a food. And we are con
stantly endeavoring to Improve wheat.
We have found and successfully test
v ed In the West a variety of wheat
from the Volga that will grow in ten
inches of rainfall. It Is the very kind
for the drought sections of this coun
try. Our soil analysts discovered in
Connecticut ground suitable for rais
ing Sumatra wrapper tobacco, for
which ,the United States annually paid nearly $8,000,000.
There are now 48,000 acres of It in Connecticut and Massa
chusetts. These scientists are. now trying to discover
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JAMES WILSON.
.u , miso the Cuban filler tobacco, and we hav
found two places. We will soon save the country $0,000,000
a year more on this product. We are raising tea success
fully in South Carolina and establishing a station for Its
culture in Texas.
Many agricultural colleges in the country are doing great
work for the advancement of scientific husbandry by giving
the farmers an opportunity to educate their sons in the
science of agriculture, but the subject should be given more
attention by the State universities. The study of agricul
ture should be a part of the university training and should
be taken up on entering, school and continued until gradua
tiou. Agriculture Is In Its Infancy, it is a new subject-so
new, in fact, that its possibilities cannot now be apprehended.
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COLDS AND THEIR CAUSES.
By Dr. E. C. Sweet, ot Chicago,
Many people are always taking cold.' To avoid coldi
we are warned to beware of drafts, wet feet, sudden
changes of temperature, and so forth, and the advice la
excellent. But exposure or tnis kind Ii
not the sole cause, for if It were, a
wetting or a chill would always be
followed by a cold, and that, we all
know, Is not the case.
Cold in the head is an inflammation
of the mucous membrane of the nose
produced by bacteria. What these bac
teria are, and whether it is always the
Fume kind that prodTio?1? a cold
questions that have not been settled.
Some, at least, of them are probably
always present In the air of our houses
dk. e. c. sweet. 0r the dust In" the open air. So it can
not be the germs alone that cause a cold, otherwise we
should never be free from one.
The germ of any disease is the same as a seed; it will
grow and multiply If planted in suitable soil, but not other
wise. So the germ or germs of a cold will not grow in a
healthy nose; the mucous membrane of the nose must be
prepared by some local or general cause which weakens Its
power of resistance. This may be a local disturbance of
the blood-supply, caused by a chilling of the surface of
the body, or irritation by the inhalation of dust or of strong
fumes, or It may be some influence which depresses the
general system and makes It vulnerable to the attacks of
the microbes. Such influences may be fatigue, mental
anxiety, loss of sleep and the like, but perhaps more often
self -poisoning by the waste products in the body which art
absorbed Instead of being promptly eliminated.
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INHUE.VCE OF THE CHURCH DECLINING.
By President C. W. Eliot, ot Hartard Vnlrersltn
We Americans are face to face wltfc
the lamentable and extraordinary fact
that the Influence of the church has vis
ibly declined in our generation. Tht
Protestant churches are too Intellectual
and too emotional on the part of the
teacher or preacher, and call for too lit
tle of personal exertion on the part of
the recipient of the Inspiration. The
emotional side of religious teaching Ii
highly developed, and this Is specially
true of the Methodist denomination. It
c. w. eliot. does not do me any good to have my
feelings aroused by exciting my pity or arousing my anget
or stirring my indignation unless I can go and do some
thing about It.
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PICTURESQUE PREACHERS.
Belifrlotu Partnership of the Morrill
Twins Kn lea by Death.
The most remarkable religious co
partnership of modern times came to
an end the other day when Rev. Hor
ace Morrill, one of the famou "Bev.
Morrill twins," died in a Nebraska
town. The "Kev. Morrill twins," as
they called themselves, were known In
almost every city and town In the Uni
ted States, throughout a large part of
Europe and In Canada. They were reg
ularly ordained Baptist ministers and
early took up evangelization work.
They labored for a time In the slums
of New York, becoming particularly
ter, offered the best field for their en
deavors. There they erected a build
ing, patterned to the most minute de
tail on a ship, and this they called the
Gospel Ship. Here they held services
in the most picturesque style known to
evangelists.
The twins called themselves evangel
ists. Others have called them crusad
ers, missionaries, and by other names
less .polite and with a different mean
ing. That they were different from the
ordinary run of evangelists they never
disputed. They rather gloried in the
fact. It wns to their peculiarity that
they owed a great deal of their success,
for their meetings were entertainment
of a rare kind.
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THE REV. MOimir.T. mviva
(Brother evanfrr-ltati, whose i( range rrlleloui nartnemhin ),. i , . .
the former ot thfin, IterXKc. . Xrtrsrt.! flenth
interested In water frout mission work.
Then they worked among the sailors
of Liverpool and of other English sea
ports. Returning to this country, they
decided that the sailor of the great
lakes was getting less attention as to
his moral and religious welfare than
his salt water brother, and that the vi
cinity of Chicago, where hundreds of
lakesuien are laid off part of tht win-
The Morrill twins were as much alike
a two peas. Persons who lived with
them for months at a time were never
able to distinguish one from the other
In appearance, in manner, In habit and
conversation they were exactly ai?ke
They always dressed alike even to
minutest detail of their clothing. Thd
no?8' fat' lnd gloves of the
same size. They both affected . Tal
whiskers of exactly the same cut. Both
were slightly bald. They rode the tan
dem wherever they went for years. So
slmllnr did they appear that the people
would cry out to them, "Hello, there,
mister, you've got yourself along with
you to-day, ain't you?"
During their evangelistic work the
twins amassed a fortune. They never
claimed to be at wpr4c for "sweet char
ity's" sake. They dla claim that they
gave one-tenth of all they made to the
church; they did not deny that they
kept tho balance. Wherever they ap
peared they were dressed In spick and
span fashion; they had money to pay
as they went; they built the ".Gospel
Ship" out of their own funds, and they
frequently fed the poor at dinners
given in the unique boat-like church. '
mis ironclad vessel was rigged out
in complete style. Flags floated from
the mastheads, lamps swung on the
bridge, the bells were struck Just the
same as if the boat had been plowing
through the water instead of being an
chored fast on a Carroll avenue hA
The smoke from the stoves inside poui:
ed through the smokestacks, and light
streamed out through portholes. The
boat had a beam of 23 feet and a length
cf 125 feet over all.
To this ship came hundreds of peo
ple. Rowdies sometimes swooped
down on the place and turned it Into
a b-dlnm. Others came to sing and
pray. Tho Arm-t-m .i.. ... n....
., ha i mo h ti e iucic
A the preaching, lend the singing, and
run the talking machine and the stere-optk-on.
Twice the boat was set on fire,
twice It was robbed.
In the hold of the land-faring vessel
were stored tws Winchester rifles that
the twins used at Barnboo, Wis., to
defend themselves against the mob
that tried to drive them from the town.
These firearms were among their treas
ures. They always kept them In plalu
view during services, not with the In
tention of using them, but bqcause they
Were nrnnd nt h m n,.
. iucuj us relics oi i"
Baraboo riot.
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enables a man to turn his money qulck-