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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1903)
I ' 4 to t natloij: Tin, yean in 1 result. ho , i rf-jtit ArrnrTrr ni 11 rmww'wwwwwwwwwwimw ZJfc3n M 1 -Ml Y-'u vyJnj kE IDEAL LIFE. ind lie said, Go forth and stand Ipon the mountain before the Lord. King six., 11. There tire times when we who have ved constantly In the valleys become isgatlsfied with our surroundings, Vlth the coinnioujimue nmuei me irrow horizon ana eontracteu vision, ind look with envious eyes to the few Irho have succeeded in ciimmng to ins iountaln top. Then, under some sue'. Jen spdl. we summon up courage, father our feeble strength, and at Wmnt to climb the steep and rugged Ascent. And when at last, after many nnjl fa!!""1", we reach the suni- fnl we are fully rewarded for our ex- moef irttons by the glorious sight before us 'on tin j, by the exhilaration of the upper 8no Clr. "n I Those In the valley can see only a 'mall part of the world's wonders- Here a uelU, a gorueui iuere a mrau, h river, or lake. Upon the mountain itop the sublime and awe inspiring prospect of the world's wonderful de sign, beauty, majesty, and power .bursts full upon the eye. From be llow we saw only a few peaks; from .iove hundreds of peaks come Into view, hundreds of smaller mountains, separated by undulations of green for ests or by silver threads of limpid wa ters. From below we had a limited outlook, saw only our own confined surroundings a few peasants, villas1 ers, or conceited townspeople; beheld only petty affairs of mundane life, which seemed of such paramount Im portance to the denizens of the valley. From the heights we have, compara tively speaking, an almost unlimited horizon and can see at a glance many cities and villages, and In the distance I bills and valleys, rivers and lakes, and beyond the mighty ocean embracing ill things. From above all great cities teem but as toy villages, men and women ns tiny miniatures, and our seemingly vast enterprises as the block houses of children at play. Standing there on the mountain top, In the very presence of the Lord, as It were, upon the throne of creation, we seem to realize a sense of our greater selves and our larger possibilities, and to feel that the people and the things we have left below are but the chrysa lis from which we have escaped; that the world in the valley Is but the step ping stone to the higher world above. There are luminous hours In our lives when the soul yearns to eman cipate itself from the limitations un der which it was born and has con tinued to exist, and seeks to rise to ome higher estate of manhood or womanhood. We have at times vis Ions of men and women who have risen to spiritual heights which we wpire to reach. They seem to live on the mountain tops of life and enjoy a greater and broader view of human affairs. They are men of unusual wis dom, profound reason, of uncompro mising convictions; men who stand on the vantage ground of truth, who love righteousness, execute justice, and walk humbly before their God; broad gauge men, full of sympathy and love 'or humanity; wholesouled men and women who enn smile benignly and Peak graciously, yet wisely; philan thropists, lovers of mankind, who tem per Justice with mercy, Judgment with charity, and who, like divinity, are pa rent, long suffering, and abundant In kindness and mercy. In our better moments we seek to and upon such a lofty plane. Our ordinary Uvea seem commonplace, tale, flat, and unprofitable." We go constantly through the same routine w eating and drinking, sleeping and waking. The OTPn t mn a ana aoam 1 1 Ira thousands and millions and myriads of Molecules and organized rella that contribute to the mechanism of the universe. We seem often to be only the small teeth on the cog wheels f human and cosmic life, rotating upon one another to move some other ,et of w heels, and thna transmit now- tt- vitality, and rmvrth in nn Inflnlta "umber of revolving wheels. Now and some of us rebel against a cruel, "least an undesirable, fate or destiny, 'e asnlre tn ,-., i. wan that of th imnat on t ho Something more than merely a part r a cog wheel; we have an ambition ne a power that moves the wheel, to be 0 conscious and active directing J c. not a mere passive piece of mpehnnlnm v .i..u . i t. - " J n tnu IU ut? UUb 111c '"y that Is molded but the potter who and executes the plan. In r better hours we reach out to such 'deal life that Is far above our ma- terial. worldly existence, with its con stant round of toil and care, coupled with only a modicum of pleasure. At such a time the words "Go forth and stand on the mountain top before the Lord" appeal to us with a wonder ful force. Get thee out of the slough of despair, out of the valley where dwell the narrow and the evil minded, and stand on the heights of the ideal life, with the great and the good, be fore the Lord. This ideal fortifies the soul, brushes aside the brooding care, drives nway the lowering clouds, and sends a ray of sunshine into our dark surroundings. We begin to feel that what we have lost is not all of life, there are still health, happiness and fortune In store for us;, that the sea is never drained; that new friends can be made in place of the old; that all truth and justice, all appreciation and sympathy are not destroyed; that new love can grow even from the grave of a dead affection. The ideal gives new zest to life, a new halo to our sur roundings. It spells new opportunity and undying hope. RECOGNITION HERE API E ft. By Iter. H. M. Barbour. Behold My hands and My feet, that It Is I Myself. St. Luke, xxlv., part of 39. The above words suggest the sub ject of our recognition of departed loved ones In the world to come. This subject Is of Interest at all times, and touches well nigh every one. Hardly any there are but have burled their dead; hardly any but have shut off from the dally activities of their souls a consecrated void; hardly any but at times are earnestly asking: "Shall we see these dear absent ones again, and will there be some bond of recognition between us?" But we are not left to mere Infer ences and implications. The Bible as serts directly the doctrine of mutual recognition hereafter. "Many shall come from the east and from the west, and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob In the knlgdom of God." Of course, there would be no significance l this statement If the patriarchs are not to be known as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Again: "Ye shall see Abraham, Isaac and Ja cob, and all the prophets In the king dom of God." Says St. Paul to the Thessalonlans: "What is our hope or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are riot even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?" Again he says to them: "Now we beseech you. brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him." And once more: "I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not as others who have no hope." The hope refer red to here Is obviously that of meet ing again. Many more-allusions of like character might be drawn from the Epistles of St. PauL But It will suffice us .to turn from them now and to consider only the further state ment of our text. And were that state ment alone It would be enough, for It tells us that the glorified body of our Lord was recognized, and he was our first fruits, and as he rose so shall we rise. There was, indeed, about him an unearthly luster, but the wounds were yet visible, the same eyes looked out upon the apostles, the same Hps spoke to them, the same hands blessed them, albeit a wondrous glory illumined all. There was that about him which dazzled and bewildered. Not at first did Mary and his dis ciples know him. While they sought the gardener or would go a-flshlng or walked sorrowful and hopeless by the wayside their eyes were darkened; but when they turned their splrlual gaze upon him then they knew him. Then Mary said, "Rabbonl;" then St John cried, "It is the Lord;" then doubting Thomas believed; then repentant Peter sank at his feet. In like manner It shall be with us and ours. We shall be changed. For corruption there shall be lncorruption; for weakness, power; for dishonor, glory; for the natural, the spiritual body. And mayhap, too, the unseen struggles and sufferings of the past shall be registered upon our faces, and thus our real characters express themselves; the things which were hid den come abroad, and the good deeds done In secret be forever rewarded openly. But our Identity, our appear ance, our Immortal Individuality shall yet remain and we be known to each other by many infallible proofs. Abra ham shall remain Abraham, Daniel shall still be Daniel, the Good Shep herd shall still call his sheep by name, and they who have met In this life shall meet again In that. An Isaac shall rejoin Rebecca, a David shall go to the child who could not come to him, a Mary and a Martha shall greet thplr brother, and the tears or a Rachel weeping for her children shall be wiped away. Blessed are the Joy-makers. Willis. While Sheriff Told a Story the Jail Prisoners Escaped. I found the sheriff of an Alabama town sitting under a shade tree near the postofflce and after an Introduction ind some general conversation the talk tell upon a negro who had stabbed a man In town that day and escaped to the swamps. The official - was telling how he as planning. to go about next day lfter the man, when a negro boy came up and, addressing him by his title, ald he wanted to speak to him. "Don't you know better than to in terrupt me, Joe?" exclaimed the sheriff and after a growl or two re lumed his talk. The boy retreated In confusion, but Ave minutes later he reappeared to say: "Mars Green, I dun want to speak to you." "You here again!" shouted the sheriff. "Take yourself off and I'll teach you manners later on." The boy disappeared, but the story was not half ended when he returned and excitedly stammered: "Mars Green, if you don't come away " "Hang It, boy, but what do you mean?" thundered the sheriff as he half rose. His attitude was bo menacing that the boy fell over himself to get away and ran across the street. We noticed him standing there for the next ten minutes, but It was only when the story was finished that he slowly cross ed back and said: "Mars Green, ken I speak to you now?" "That you, Joe. What Is it?" "I'ze bin waitin' to tell you bout de Jail, sah." "Well, what about the Jail? You should know better than to interrupt a gentleman." ' "But all the prisoners dun got away half an hour ago, sah. I wanted to tell you, but you 1" The sheriff was off like a wild loco motive, but he was too late. His seven prisoners had filed the bars and gone out by the window." NOTED LECTURE MANAGER. Major J. B. Pond Was Associated with Man? Famons Parsonages. MaJ. James Burton Pond, who died at his home in Jersey City, the other day, of blood poisoning, was well known throughout the country as the manager of many noted lecturei s. MaJ. Pond was G5 years of age, and h 1 s life, which had begun . as a printer's "devil," was rich In adven tures and reminis cences. His birth place was Allegany Coun IfAJ. J. B. FOND. ty, this State, and he went west at a tender age. He spent his early life on a farm In Wisconsin, later became a printer In Kansas, and when the Civil War broke out he or ganized Company C, of the Third Wis consin Cavalry, and served through the Civil War as captain and finally as major In the regiment He was one of 17 survivors of a band of 118 In the Baxter Springs massacre, executed In 1S63 by the guerilla chief, Quantrell. In 1878 MaJ. Pond was working on the Salt Lake Tribune, the first Gen tile paper ever published In Utah. It was as manager of Ann Elizabeth Young, one of Brigham Young's wives, who lectured throughout the country opposing the Latter Day Saints, that be first became prominently connected with the managerial field. For 30 years he had been a lecture manager and among those whom he toured at different times were Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips, Ralph Wal do Emerson, John B. Gough, Susan B. Anthony, Robert G. Ingersoll and Sir Edwin Arnold. - MaJ. Pond was rich In reminiscences of the great men and women with whom he was associated. A few years ago b wrote a book, "Eccentricities of Genius," In which he related Interest ing Incidents of those with whom he had to do In the course of his profes atonal career. Fashionable Chairs, Perhaps. Squire Hanson's language seldom lacked vigor, but was often wanting In strict accuracy and sometimes In con sistency. "I've been over to talk with Alvira Pond about selling that corner lot," he said one day to his wife, bis ruddy face mottled with purple from some recent exertion, "and I'll never enter her parlor again, never! Not a chair In the room but what Is Impossible to sit down In, out of the question to get up from, and leaves you with such a cramp you can't move hand nor foot when you stand!" Ruled Out of Literature "You say he thinks his poems very fine?" said the man with the , cold, steely eye. "He considers them unsurpassed." "Then there is no chance for him. He hasn't even Judgment enough to be a critic." Washington Star. mm ROMANCE OF CABEN JOHN BRIDGE WORLD'S LARGEST SINGLE SPAN STONE ARCH. Early in the eighteenth century a pilgrim appeared in what Is now known as Montgomery County, Mary land. He built for himself a hut on the margin of a creek which empties into the Potomac river, seven miles above Georgetown. The Revolution came and went; the tall, lithe figure of the hermit became bowed with years, and his shaggy dark locks turn ed gray.. During these years he had been a hunter and fisher,, his only clothing the skins of beasts, and two hunting dogs his only companions. He sought no intercourse with the few human beings who, straying from the much-traveled "river road," occasion ally drifted into his lonely glen; but, to the kindly disposed and the curious, his manners were ever those of a gentleman. He had a strong, beauti ful voice, In which he sang sweet but sad verses of his own composition, ac companying himself on a banjo, or mandolin, constructed of rude mate rials by his own hands. Toward the close of the last century he disappear ed. The hermit had been known on the Potomac as "John of the Cabin," and the little stream by which stood his tiny home Is still called "Cabin John Creek." The ravine through which It lows Is now spanned by a bridge which for over forty years has figured In our national history, and bears the added distinction of being the longest single arch stone bridge in the world. Work of Jefferson Davis. Early in Pierce's administration Jef ferson Davis, then Secretary of War, directed Capt Montgomery C. Meigs, United States Corps of Engineers, to span the ravine and the creek with a conduit bridge, to convey to the rapid ly growing city of Washington its wat er supply, from the reservoir at Great Falls, sixteen miles above the city. In November, 1852, Capt. Meigs had begun the work of designing and con structing the Potomac aqueduct. This, together with the duties of superin tending the building of the new wings of the general postofflce, and the com pletion of Fort Madison, at Annapolis, occupied his time so fully that work on the bridge was not begun until 1857. It was well under way when, In July. 1800, he was detailed to duty at Fort Jefferson, Tortugas, Florida, The dimensions of Cabin John bridge are as follows: Feet. Length of bridge, including abut ments 450 Height above bottom of ravine 105 Length of span 220 GEN. FRANK WHEATON. A Distinguished Bold ler, with a Splen did Army Kecord. Major General Frank Wheaton, U. S. A., who died In Washington a few days ago, served In the army for forty- two years. De ceased was born In Providence, R. I., in 1833 and was in his 71st year. He became civil en gineer, took part In the Mexican boun dary surveys and, In 1855, was made lieutenant In tho Third U. S. Caval- qki. r, wheaton. ry. The uenerai s fighting record was one greatly to his credit He took to the field against the Cheyenne Indians in 1857 and his opening fight was near Fort Kearny, Neb., where he acquitted himself most gallantly. He took part In the Utah expedition and, on the breaking out of the rebellion, proceeded to his native State and was made lieutenant colonel of the Second Rhode Island Volun teers; a month later be was made colonel, and had his troops In Vir ginia early In May, so that they took part In the opening engagement of the war at Bull Run. Thereafter the com mand was with the Army of the Poto mac in all Its desperate engagements. In 1802 the commander was made brigadier general and directed a divi sion of the Sixth Corps at Gettysburg Most. Unique Structure in Engineering History, Is Linked With the Annals of ' the Country Rise of span 67.28 Width of span 20.4 There are 11,914 cubic yards of ma sonry In the bridge, and Its entire cost was $254,000. Bone Historic Erasures. Captain, later General, Meigs was very proud of this engineering feat, and always Jealously regarded the work as being entirely his own. The erasures on one of the tablets of the bridge bear witness to his wrath when, on returning from Tortugas, he dis covered that Oapt. Henry W. Benham and Lieut. J. St. C. Morton, who had charge of the work during his absence, had caused their names to be Inscribed on the bridge as chief engineers of con struction. In addition to removing these names Capt. Meigs was success ful In having Oapt. Benham ordered to duty nt Tortugas. It had been Oapt. Meigs' Intention, however, to have inscribed beneath his own the name of Mr. Rives, and the letters had already been traced In red chalk or paint when he received the news of Mr. Rives' resignation and en listment In the Confederate army. "No rebel's name shall appear on fiy bridge," said Oapt. Meigs. The stone cutters' orders were countermanded, the red letters, disappeared, and In their place were cut the words, "Esto Perpetua," which Capt. Meigs intend ed should express the hope that the bridge would outlast the memory of the youth who had deserted it.. Mr. Rives, now nearly 70 years of age, resides at "Castle Hill," his fine old estate, near Charlottesville, Va. He was superintendent of construction of the Panama Railroad and is still prom inently connected with the Richmond and Danville Railroad. He has three beautiful daughters, one of whom is known In Ikerary circles as Amelie Rives and in society as the Princess Troubetzkol. Another and still more widely known erasure was attributed, until recent years, to Gen. Meigs. This was the obliteration, In June, 1802, of the name of Jefferson Davis from the largest tablet of the bridge. The tablet was originally Inscribed as follows: WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT, Begun A. D. 1853. Franklin Pierce, President of the United States. Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War. Building A. D. 1801. President of the United States, Abra- ham Lincoln. Secretary of War, Simon Cameron. and In the campaign In the Schenan doah Valley in 1804, and was actively engaged In the maneuvers preceding the surrender of Lee In 1805 at Appo mattox. For gallantry at the battles of Opeguan, Fisher's Hill and Middle town, Va., he was made major general and further honors came to him for bravery In the battles of the Wilder ness, Cedar Vreek and Petersburg. For his chivalrlc conduct in these engage ments the State of Rhode Island pre sented him with a sword In 1800. Argument Against War. Peace leagues and societies for the prevention of war may be able to use an argument which Current Literature says was advanced by a pupil In a prl mary school In the Southwest. At the beginning Si the war with Spain the teacher told the class some thing about the circumstances, and asked all who favored the war to hold up their hands. Up went every hand but Jack's. "Well, Jack, why are you opposed to the war?" asked the teacher. " 'Cause, Miss Sophie, war makes his tory, an' there's more now 'n I can ever learn." A Densely Populated Island. Malta Is the most thickly populated Island In the world It has 1,300 peo ple to the square mile. Bnrbadoes has 1,054 people to the square mile. When a girl Is a sure enough Tom boy, her mother has to follow bur around with needle and thread.