Lincoln County leader., July 10, 1903, Image 2

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TOLEDO OREGON.
The woman who can't fool some man
Is probably alone on a desert island.
There are no drafts on the Bank of
Motherhood which are not honored
without discount.
The Hague tribunal is to have a
11,500,000 home, but there is nothing
as yet to put In it
Another child has died from "Jump
ing the rope;" and still parents allow
their children to skip without limit.
The sowing of wild oats Is more pro
lific than that of any of the cereals. It
yields abundant crops every month in
the year.
Pope Leo is not a fop, but all the
same he has the largest and most ele
gant wardrobe in the world. Ills tailor
is a happy man.
A pair of shoes can be made in a
Lynn (Mass.) factory in thirteen min
utes; that Is, as fast as a 13-year-old
boy can weur them out.
The Macedonian cry seems to Indi
cate that the Sultan's reforms need re
forming. Some sweet day the old fel
low will be put out of business.
Possibly there has been some mis
understanding. When a public officer
takes an oath to execute the law it
does not mean that he Is to kill it
A New York amusement man has
taught a monkey to "loop the loop"
in an automobile. Verily, it takes
uiun's best to keep ahead of the monk.
Chauncey M. Depew says a man
doesn't reach his prime until he Is
over 50 yeurs of age. It is under
stood, however, that Chauncey in this
statement limits himself to men.
Humor says that the bonnet with rib-r
bons tied in a double bow under the
chin is coming In again. When a wom
an wears something like that she can
Just wind Man around her finger like
a piece of paper.
A Harvard professor of pathological
anatomy announces that he has discov
ered the germ that causes smallpox.
Isn't that a reflection on the other fel
lows in the past who have been doc
toring small pox patients?
A Philadelphia man has paid $2,100
for the original manuscript of Poe's
poem, "The Bells." If Poe could have
got that much money for all the poems
he wrote he would doubtless have con
sidered himself the luckiest bard ex
tant. The discovery by archaeologists of
skeletons iu Kentucky supposed to be
those of prehistoric mound builders
nppenls to the dullest imagination. In
scriptions on the stones In colonial
graveyards do not Boein old beside the
sepulcher of men who were burled
with stone knives and stone cups."
Looking back over the long record of
futile protest against labor-saving
met hods, we find that what at first
looked like a calamity to some event
ually proved to be a blessing In dis
guise. Facilitating production lias
made production easier, wages higher
und In the long run has helped to make
more opportunities for labor.
If one should go to Bagdad over the
new railway which Engluud, France
and Germany axe to control he would
not find Ilarouu al Raschld In his an
cient capital. Nor would any of the
other romantic figures of the "Thou
sand Hud One Nights" Ins there. Hut
If one should travel by camel train and
camp outside the city at night before
the railway is finished, he might Im
agine that all the tales of the fascinat
ing series were being retold In his
hearing. The calif himself might call
at his tent door. The first whistle of
the .locomotive will drive away much
of what one Is accustomed to regard as
the spirit of the Hast.
Not long ago the Indian Bureau Is
sued an order that nil the reservation
Indians should have their hair cut. The
decree provoked so much opinmitlou
that It was finally rescinded. Now an
other change Is planned which can
hardly be expected to meet with any
less vigorous antagonism a change
from distinctly Indian to more com
mon Anglo-Saxon names. The reason
assigned Is that Indian names are
purely Individual, and go out of ex
istence with the deaths of the men
who iK-ar them. This makes It dlill
cult to trace titles and family relation
Khlps, and confuses government rec
ords. "Mon-Who-Toos-ln" ami "Thun-der-ot-Nlght"
may therefore have to
become plain Peter Smith and Cyrui
Wlggln. Naturally they do not like It;
nor can one blame them much. If
any man has to work to "make a name
for himself" It Is an Indian. Having
made It, it seems as if lie ought to be
allowed to keep it. '
Newspapers, joking about the growth
of American cities, have Inverted geog
raphy, and said that the State of Illi
nois is situated in Chicago The jest of
one age becomes the truth of the next.
A professor at Columbia University
; has predicted that there will one day
I be a continuous city froin northern
i Massachusetts to Virginia. The cause
of this possible result is the trolley
car, which not only connects towns,
but makes It convenient to live in the
outlying districts between towns. City
life in America is an economic neces
sity, not an expression of our natures,
We are segregative. We like land
about our houses. As soon as it is pos
sible to have our homes far from the
centers, and still do business in the
city, the centrifugal tendency of Amer
leans will send us away from the cities
to live. When trolley lines cut through
every corner of well-peopled States, so
ciety is likely to spread along the
trucks, to thin out evenly instead of
hiving in swarms of a million. In an
other century the prophecy may come
true that the inhabitants of the thick
ly populated eastern coast will be con
tinuously and almost equally distrib
uted. There may be an unbroken city
from Maine to Virginia. Then shall a
man's pridress be, "John Robinson,
Boston District, Massachusetts, City of
East America?" But that is running
the idea to extremes.
Professor Metchnikoff has shown us
very clearly that the reason man fears
death Is because he Is called awav be
fore he Is "full of days." And he cites
the well-known cases of Abraham,
Isaac and Job. who lived 175. 180 and
140 years respectively, and died full of
auys, ready and even anxious to go.
From which we are led to infer that
our methods of life are wholly wrong
and that if we shall only so live as to
prolong our existence to the old-fashioned
limit, we shall welcome death
with as much eagerness as we now seek
to avoid It. The only trouble with the
professor's theories Is that he is too
particular in his examples. What was
uie matter with Adam, who lived 930
years; Seth, with his 002 years; Jared,
with his 002 years, and Methuselah,
with his 009 years? If such children
as Job and Abraham and Isaac were
"full of days," what were Adam and
the others full of? If, as the inspired
book tells us. Job sliDDed off when he
was 140, "full of days," how was Me
thuselah beginning to feel as he round
ed his third century? If Abraham
proves that we may live to be 175, why
cannot Adam prove that we may just
as well hop along until we are S30?
So for as we can see Adam's word is
Just as good as Abraham's whatever
Dr. Lyman Abbott may think to the
contrary. Professor Metchnikoff, a
very learned man, has no right to Jug
gle the scriptures to suit his argument.
We Insist on fair play for Seth and
Adam and Jared, and a "full-of-days"
Interpretation that means something.
Under what similitude will you liken
human life? A pleasure garden? Or
a prison house? Some soy this life Is
a penitentiary where we are punished.
"Life Is thickly strewn with thorns,"
said one pessimist," and I know no
way save to pass quickly through
them." These persons are Stoics. Oth
ers view life as a garden of gaiety.
They are Epicureans. "Eat, drink and
be merry" Is the gonfalon of these.
A short life and a merry, Bay these
Sybarites. The Stole was wrong. Life
Is not thickly strewn with thorns. It
Is strewn with rosus. The thorns are
Incidental. The Epicurean is also
wrong. He that seeks pleasure for
pleasure's sake will find only satiety.
What, then, is it? Human life Is a
school. It begins In the mother's arms,
and ends only on the Great Gradua
tion Day. It has Its recesses, Inter
missions and vacations, but the school
goes on! Its teachers are named Ex
perience. Sometimes the lessons are
hard and the tears fall on the pago
of the text book! Sometimes they ore
pleasant as well as profitable. But
these lessons must be learned. Each
must learn them for himself. A man
can tMiueath money or advice to his
boy, but he cannot bequeath his ex
perience. The twy must go to school
as did the father before him, and ns all
the fathers before him did. The stu
dent In life's school never gets too old
to learn. When he quits learning he
begins to die. How puerile to say one's
education Is "finished" at college! The
school of life has Its shirkers. If one
becomes a truant he must expect a
sharp reprimand. If he deliberately
disobeys the rules of the school, he
may expect punishment. Else the
school would Ih anarchy. Contrary,
wise, the scholar who applies himself
will be reworded. Then hurrah for our
school! When recess comes let us laugh
and ploy, and, as Hmwevclt says, "play
hard." When It Is time for study let
us get down to our lessons. And on
the Great Commencement Day, when
the Great Tvncher shall hand to each
of us our diploma, may there be writ
ten on them all, "Well done."
Haven't you a right to a few of your
own notions? Must you do everything
your neighbors sugges J
'fcjS&$ cience '
The late surveys of the English coast
show a loss of land of forty thousand
acres since 1807, although In some
places, ns at New Homney, the solid
ground has been pushed out two nillqs
or more in the sea.
The city of Toronto counts on get
ting 125,000 horse-power from Niagara
Falls, although its distance from the
great cataract is ninety miles. The
electric current Is to be carried the en
tire distance from the generating
plant, which will be constructed on
the Canadian side, by cables supported
on a double-pole line.
Evidences of the favorable action of
X-rays upon 'lupus and cancer contin
ues to increase.'' The action is not yet
understoodv one theory being that it
kills the bacteria, while a more prob
able suggestion is that the Inflamma
tion set up-brings an accumulation of
phagocytes and leucocytes, and these
"scavenger" cells attack and destroy
the morbid tissues.
Excessive . muscular development is
pronounced by an experienced physi
cian to be uul only unnecessary, but
positively dangerous. On ceasing ath
letic training, which every person
must do sooner or later, the system
ndapts itself very slowly to new con
ditions, and digestive and liver trou
bles are very liuble to follow. The
great lungs, not needed In sedentary
work, degenerate, often leading to con
sumption. The bacteria mining lamp of Prof.
Hans Molisch, of Prague, consists of
a glass jar lined with a compound of
saltpetre and gelatine, previously Inoc
ulated with luminous bacteria. In this
culture the bacteria showed enormous
increase. In two days a bluish green
light filled the Jar, sufficiently brilliant
to show faces two yards away, and to
enable a person to read large type,
and this light remained for several
days, gradually fading away In about
a fortnight. The light Is cold and
quite safe In mines filled with the
most dangerous gases.
All readers of Scott's novels must
vividly remember the Peak of Derby
shire. This elevated region Is to be
made a source of water supply for
four cities Sheffield, Derby, Notting
ham and Leicester. The gathering
ground of the water lies from COO to
2,070 feet above sea level, and covers
fifty square miles. Virtually, the en
tire sources of the river Derwent will
be collected, but one-third of the water
must be restored to the river to pro
tect vested Interests along Its course.
The cost Is estimated at 550.000.WO.
A temporary town, with houses of gal
vanized lion lined with match-board,
and with a school, a church, a hospital
and a concert hall, has been construct
ed for the army of laborers, who will
bo employed for a dozen years. There
are to be five reservoirs with an aggre
gate capacity of 10,508,000,000 gallons.
The project of climbing the loftiest
mountain on the earth, Mount Ever
est, In the Himalayas, whose tremen
dous head rises, according to trigo
nometrical measurements, 29,002 feet
above sea level, has now reached n
stage Immediately antecedent to the
actual attempt. A party, led by Mr.
Eckensteln, nn experienced climber,
has set out for the foot of the great
peak. Several celebrated mountain
climbers have expressed the opinion
that the feat Is feasible, but only by
the method of gradual ascent, whereby
the adventurers may become Inured to
the effects of a. rare atmosphere.
Months and even years may be spent
in ascending to higher and higher lev
els, a long pause being made after ev
ery considerable advance. The highest
ascent now on record Is that of Acon
cagua, In the Andes, the elevation of
which Is 23.080 feet. R.092 feet, or more
than a mile, less than the height of
Everest.
Cause and Effect.
"I beg your pardon." said the young
doctor, who had recently settled in
the neighborhood; "did 1 understand
you to say yesterday that you never
had auy sickness at your house and
therefore never engaged a family phy
slclnn?" "No," replied Krotchett. "I snld I
engaged a family physician and there
fore never hod nny sickness at our
house."-Phllndelphla Ledger.
Misunderstood.
McQuoery-"You're not so attentive
to Miss Uoxley as I thought you would
be."
Hunter "No. You see er she told
me she didn't go In for social pleas
ures sluce her father had failed."
Mcyueery-"Ior old man! He Is
falling dreadfully. Quite a physical
wreck."
Huufer-"Gee whls! Is that what
sho uunnt?" Philadelphia Ledger.
Why Inqlulre of a mnn when you
meet him. "How are you?" He won't
tell you, If there Is anything wrong.
Don't look for praise: Hie um
praise you get, the harder the reac-
Ion will be.
THE CRY FOR JESUS.
Br the Rev. H. M. Lonry.
Sir, we would see Jesus. John, xll.,
21.
The east came to the cradle of
Christ, the west came to his cross. The
Magi and the Greeks represent that en
lightened religious Instinct which, dis
satisfied with that which cannot feed
the soul, is able to rise above previous
education and prejudice and seek the
gratification of its deepest needs and
Its highest aspirations wherever that
gratification may be found.
These who thus came to Christ stood
for that large number of Greeks, so
frequently alluded to, who, perceiving
the vanity of popular rellerlon. turned
to something more satisfying, and
found In the Bvnasrosrue service of the
Jews something which appealed to the
cravings of that Instinct for God which
all men possess. Attaching themselves
more or less to Judaism without sub
mitting to the religious rites necessary
to give them full standing they came
to Jerusalem to worship the God in
whom they had come to believe. Here
they put themselves In communication
with one of the disciples of Jesus and
request an Interview with the man
who has created so great a stir in the
popular mind.
Their action may well be regarded
by us as sucrzestlne the crv of nn
enlightened religious Instinct for the
personal Christ.
Mere curiosity may prompt 6uch a
cry.
Now, as then, Jesus Christ Is the
problem of the ages. He is a person
ality that must be explained; a force
that must be accounted for. This man,
whom millions love and no one hates.
thrusts himself before us In such a
way that life is entirely changed for
us after we meet him. "By what au
thority doest thou these things?" Is a
question we must hnve answered for
the sake of our own peace of mind.
"What shall I do with Jesus?" is the
inquiry of a soul who Is confronted by
this perplexing personality, this mas
terful man. The age of inquiry In
which we live finds Its curiosity baf
fled by this teacher, whose character
defies human analysis, whose truth
transcends human philosophies, and
whose Influence Is more living, more
personal, more powerful in each suc
ceeding age. Eager to wot what God
would have us to do and be, we turn
from all else to Jesus, In the hope that
at last we can find an authority upon
which we can rest.
Appreciation may lead us to him. Re-
yond mere curiosity a soul has come to
Know euough of Jesus to make him
feel that life offers nothing better than
the study of this character and life.
Moral beauties disclose themselves In
such a way as to charm us. We are
fascinated by his graclousness, sub
dued by his tenderness, moved by his
love. We cease to wonder whv It Is
that those who reject him vie with
tnose who accept him in laying their
tribute of admiration at his feet, and
can understand how It Is that even an
Infidel can find the life of Jesus his
highest theme and irreatest satlsfno-
tion.
The motives which draw us to Jesus
may be even deeper than those. Tlmm
may be a strong personal desire on our
part ror Jesus because he has wooed
and won us. We hold him not at nrn..
length; we look not at him In the spirit
di inquiring criticism; we treat htm not
as something outside of -ourselves, but
as dearer to us than all the world; we
aesire to take him Into our lives, to
reign there king of love and life.
In any and every case that which
this religious Instinct cries for Is a per
sonality. When the church.
rude methods which It once used, tried
io convert the world to Christianity it
brought Into Its fold
bnrous and unsplrltual votaries, which
lert us impress upon church life for a
thousand years. If the church Chris
tlanlred paganism, paganism In turn
paganized Christianity. As a result
the personality of Christ was largely
lost. It Is the glory of the present
time that the church Is swinging back
more and more to the personal Christ.
As the din of religious strife ni,ui,i,J
there Is presented In new beauty and
power this one perfect personality. He,
and he alone, meets the want. ,
answers the cry of the present dav
initu. n is nn ago or individualism.
The needs of man are paramount i.
the monarch has gone down, man bos
gone up. Humonlty wants a Christ
who deals with Indlvldunl m.n
who addresses himself to Indlvldunl
auis. in tne moment of sorrow we
foel for the hand of the comforter; In
raws
rWirr
the hour of Innnll
v. c BeeK
companion; in the day of trouble
wnnt the counsel of our friend. Ther
is no one in all history who satisfle!
us so fully as Jesus of Nazareth, who
as "Man of Sorrows" and "Friend of
Sinners," touches human hearts to
cure, to comfort, to cleanse.
Systematic theology Is as necessary
as the bones of a man, but those bones
must be covered with warm flesh If
we are to have a friend. Delight In
the study of Christian anatomy must
not rob us of our living friend, the
matchless Son of Man. The weary
the sad, the forsaken are crying ty
day, as never before, "Sir. we would,
see Jesus."
CARNHGIE IS CANNY DRIVER.
By Rev. John Merrltt,
I am pleased when worklngmen re
fuse to patronize the Carnegie 11
brarles. The great steel magnate ha,
only helped those who had no need of
his help. He has been quite as shrewd
and ciiiiiiy Iu posing as a philanthrop
ist as he was In coining the sweat of
other men's brows Into the colossal
fortune he now claims as his very
own.
No able-bodied man, not even a
preacher, can accept a charity without
being debauched In doing so. Capital
ists may practice cannibalism among
themselves without greatly Imperiling
the republic, but the very moment the
ninsses lose their healthy pride and
self-respect everything will be lost.
The poor man's choking at the offer
of charity and request for honest em
ployment instead Is the strongest proof
that he is still a man.
Do not be deluded Into the Idea that
the fashionable avenues and boule
vards where brown stone fronts and
marble palaces predominate are the
only or the most hopeful fields for
evangelism. Down on the Insignificant
streets where the middle classes live,
down In the so-called slums where
haggard faces peer out of the wlniow
and nakedness runs and hides, there
they wait with longing hearts for the
sweet gospel of him who, like them
selves, had not where to lay his head.
The toiling, struggling, often sorrow
ing masses are not agnostic or atheis
tic or anarchistic. The millions must
not be condemned for the shortcomings
of the few in the ranks of labor. The
almost numberless masses have too
much head and heart and immortality
and Inherent nobility of soul for such
arrant nonsense and folly as that.
The bigot who said In his heart.
"There is no God," was a rich fool,
and he said it in his heart because, in
the absence of brains, that was bis
only, resort.
My young friends, carry the gospel
to the poor. Do not neglect or be un
charitable to or burning shame for
get the poor. The poor ye have with,
you always. Win them to Christ. They
stand on the doorstep, In the yard,
at the gate, looking up and down the
long and dreary streets and alleyways,
looking for you and wondering why
you do not come with the message of
salvation. Alas, some of them are
coming to think It Is because you are
too selfish and haughty and heartless
nnd because you so much prefer the
rich.
FOR A QUIET SABBATH.
By Rey. Charles W. Tlnsity.
No nation Is more loyal to the Sab
bath than our own. Our foundations
were laid in deep reverence for the
holy day. The Pilgrims, In 1020, hnlf
starved, shivered in the cold, rather
than begin their work on the Sabbath.
From that day to this there has been
"American Sabbath." The necessity
for the day Is written deep In man's,
physical constitution. Like a clock,
we run down. The sleep of the night
Is not enough. The seventh day Is re
quired to "knit up the raveled sleeve
of care." The manual toller needs It
The holy day Is the north star of his
deliverance from Sunday slavery. The
home needs It. The highest type of
home life demands Sabbath observ
ance. It Is no accident that the world
map of safe popular freedom Is made
p on the Sabbath keeping nations.
The Sabbath is the Gibraltar of law
and order. It Is simply patriotism to
keep It.
It is being attacked by Insidious foes.
Sunday mails are wholly unnecessary.
They compel the labor of thousands of
men-who are entitled to their Sabbath.
The Sunday newspoper attacks It It
displaces what Is vastly more of value
than that which It gives. It projects
the secular spirit Into the Sabbath. So
with Sunday amusements of all sorts.
It Is not test observed as a day of
amusement. Sunday excursions and
Sunday bnselmll will demoralize any
town. It ought to be permanently en
Joined as a violation of an express
statute.
Hope Is so sweet, with Its golden
wings that, at his last sigh, man till
Implores It Do la Tena,