LINCOLN COUNTY LEASER.
OH AS. F. ADA K. BOCLK, Pnba.
TOLEDO OREGON.
Hate is simply love turned wrong
side out
'Money does not always talk. Some
times it groans.
A ?5 cigar only leaves less than a
cent's "worth of ashes.
Those from whom we expect the
most give us the least.
The price of coal resembles the coal
barons' excuses in one respect neither
will go down.
One million Immigrants last year
and still a cry for more laborers to
harvest the grain crops.
A New Yorw man claims to be a
female reformer. He manufactures
costumes for chorus girls.
Scientists think there is gold at the
north pole. If they can furnish good
reasons for this belief the pole will be
discovered right away.
A man can get a better reputation
for piety by dealing squarely in busi
ness six days In the week than he can
by going to church regularly every
Sunday.
The debts of Alexander and Draga
are $80,000. They will now be paid.
Perhaps the massacre was not a matter
of politics after all. It was very businesslike.
A theatrical manager who proposes
to recruit his chorus exclusively with
"society women" can hardly be com
plimented as an Innovator. According
to the passionate press agents every
chorus girl . Is a "former society
leader."
A Turko-Tartar proverb throws light
on the question of the amount of
veracity to be looked for In official
documents issued by Orientals. The
proverb runs bb follows: "He who
speaks the truth will be expelled from
nine villages."
'As a little diversion to get the mind
of the public off revolution and such
things a hermit priest in Russia Is to
be canonized as a saint. Better that
this man should be a saint, the czar
doubtless argues, than that he himself
should be an angel.
Cheerfulness plays such an import
ant part In successful living that the
need for a new school of jesters Is
clearly Indicated. The head of a busi
ness establishment who is. Inclined to
despondency would find It profitable,
us one every-dny philosopher suggests,
to employ a "cheering-up" clerk. Then
the day would start with a laugh,
liven "counterfeit (flee'.' may occasion
ally serve a useful purpose.
On the seventieth anniversary of his
birth, which he recently celebrated, ti
noted United States Senator said, "My
Idea of the only way to succeed in poll
tics Is Included Iii the following principles-perseverance,
truthfulness, ildel
ity to friends, fill mess to foes; above
all, strict Integrity. I have sought to
observe these principles, no matter
whether I was up or down, and It has
paid." This is as good a rule for
business as for politics.
esting pieces of glass or china off the
center table or the mantel. Reducing
the number of these things may, there
fore, prove a distinct blessing to men,
the majority of whom are more or less
awkward, and cannot fall to lessen the
burdens of the housekeeper and of the
maid who is expected to dust all this
collection of animal and mineral freaks
at least once a week.
The new education act In England
orders every education committee to
provide for the Inclusion of women as
well as men among the members of the
committee. It has been announced
through au interpretation given under
legal authority that "women," as here
used, may mean cue woman ami no
more. Law and grammar are thus at
odds. Yet there are Individuals of so
much ublllty and capacity that they
are entitled to be ailed "women."
One reason for the suffering of th
Jews In Russia Is the prohibition upon
their cultivation of the land. Conse
quently they must herd In the cities
and live as best they may. In Ger
many an attempt has been made to
train them for agriculture, and a school
fur that purpose has been established
near Hanover, where the boys are
taught not only agriculture and hortl
culture, but also the use of carpenters
tools. Some graduates of the school are
working as gardeners In tills country
One of the latest decrees Issued from
the temple of fashion, where so many
worship, Is to the effect that brlc-a
brae has outlived Its usefulness and
niutt depart Just where It Is to go Is
not specified, but It can with safety
bo placed In the garret or thrown at
the members of the feline opera com
pany which Insist on giving midnight
concerts, with the bock fence as a
stage. Good reasons are given for this
decree. Bric-a-brac has so multiplied
in many parlors that the visitor has
to be very careful lest ho sit down on
some frail ornament or knock half a
dozen Incongruous and wholly unlnter-
In . the year 18S4 a Massachusetts
clergyman who had broken down
physically resolved to find amusement
for spare hours and strength for his
nerves in the culture of flowers. The
sight of a hedge of sweet peas decided
him to make the sweet pea his spe
cialty. At that time there were oply
a dozen varieties of this flower. It
vas easy to make a collection, and by
attention and experiment the kinds in
creased and the collection grew until
tht minister had nineteen varieties.
Thrifty, odorous, beautiful mission
ary flowers, too, for one year he sold
a hundred dollars' worth of Seeds for
the benefit of the home mission fund
of his church. The next important de-
elopment was a little book about
sweet peas, which had a circulation of
fifty thousand copies. Then the cler
gjman took a vacation trip abroad,
and exchanged ideas with English flor
ists. They had already heard of him,
and In his own country he was be
coming known as an authority. In
181M he performed the important task
of naming varieties there were fifty.
by that time for the California seed-
growers, in 1UOO he represented
America In London, at the two hun-
diedth anniversary of the Introduction
ot sweet peas into Great Britain. Let
It be noted that this clergyman did
not neglect the demands of his pro
fession, the main business of his life.
That he is authority In another field,
and therein could command an ex
pert's remuneration, is due to the de
termination with which he began, "to
know all that was to be known about
this one flower." ' Busy people ought
to have a "fad," a spare-hour diver
sion employing another set of facul
ties than that which they use in the
dally struggle for bread; but the wise
plan Is not to attempt to cover too
much ground. It is much better to
succeed with sweet peas than to fall
ft a flower-garden. Specialization
means mastery, which involves the
sacrifice of no pleasure, and leads to
large Increase of profit.
Certain scientists, among them Pro
fessor William Jones, say that if a
rtJson be seated with the eyes band
aged and a large object be brought
close to the face It is quite possible not
only to distinguish the fact of the
presence of such an object, but fre
quently its size and shape. Not many
years ago an Italian scientist, Spallan
zanl, extracted the eyes of bats and
was surprised to find that their flight
was not In the least interfered with,
and that their power to avoid objects
was as complete as if they .still were
In possession of their sense of sight
Dr. Emlle Javel, of the French Acad
emy of Medicine, .who had. the misfor
tune many years ago of losing his eye
sight, hns recently published a pamph
let in which he seeks, as a result of
experiments among the blind, to dem
onstrate the existence of a "sixth
sense." It is well known, for instance,
that the blind almost invariably assert
that the seat of the sensation Is prin
cipally In the forehead. Some attrib
ute the sensation to air pressure, a the
ory which Dr. Javel rejects because
the perception on the part of the blind
Is clearer when they approach an ob
ject slowly than when they approach
It rapidly. Some believe that this per
ception Is a result of the tympanum
acting as a receiver without dlntlnct
Ivcly auditive sensations having taken
place. Dr. Javel himself believes that
It may be the skin which Is affected
by radiation of a special order. There
exist obscure rays that the eyes can
not perceive, yet which can affect the
tactual sense, and the smallest thermic
variation may be utilized by the mind
to rvvcal the presence of objects. The
nature of the phenomena observed so
far Is too obscure, probably, to admit
of any scientific deductions of great
value being made at present. Even
Dr. Jnvel would not be surprised, per
haps. If the phenomena observed were,
after all, capable of being explained
by the presence of the live senses
known, without admitting the exist
ence of a sixth.
Water In Drying I'p.
An old theory Is that the earth Is
slowly drying through the chemical
combination of the water with the
crust. A French geographer, M. Mar
tet, has been Investigating numerous
caverns and drying valleys and ha
convinced himself that a more rapid
absorption is taking place, and that
our water supply Is being swallowed
up at an appreciable rate by the fis
sures and cavities of rocks and soil,
lie urges a more thorough study, with
a view of lessening absorption if pos
sible. Women do not wear corsets because
the men oppose them, but because of
the enjoyment they experience every
sight In taking them off.
LIVE MORE OUTSIDE SELVES.
By Rev. J. A. Hllburu.
The actual men and women with
whom we have to deal are so crude,
so angular, compared with the men
and women that we create out of the
subtle element of thought. The actual
society In which we live Is so
mediocre, so lusterless, so wanting in
proportion, compared with the society
that we have lived with on the heights
of Imagination, on the peaks where we
dream our fairest dreams. Now, this
servitude is an Inevitable result of an
unbalanced subjectivity, and the cure
for It Is to get Into the habit of liv
ing less inside ourselves, and more out
side ourselves In the great world of
nature, and In that yet more Interest
ing world made up of actual women
and actual men.
What we want to learn to do Is to
tw things as, they are, and to do so
we must objecttvlze our consciousness,
our life. Here, for Instance. Is a per
son afflicted with what in England is
so appropriately called "the hurries."
When In England people are In xa state
of great internal agitation, fretfuluess,
nervousness or undue anxiety, they
say they have "the hurries." So many
of us have this malady of disordered
and Incoherent nerves. And this mal
ady has Its roots In subjectivity. We
live too much within ourselves, and
this interior world of ours, great
though it be, Is far too small a sphere
for the soul to realize its infinite pos
sibilities and to attain Its largest and
its richest life.
The secret of calm, the secret of a
balanced and an ordered mind, the se
cret of poise, is not Christian science;
it Is the secret of common sense, of
living out In touch with nature, the
best of all physicians, the most perfect
therapeutic and the most salubrious of
all the forces that can minister to the
mind diseased or to the heart dis
tressed. '
Here Is a woman who is unhappy
In her marital relations. Her husband
Is a good man, a plain, simple man,
like nny oiie of a thousand other men.
A little while ago she was quite hap.
py In the possession of "her man,"
whom she voluntarily chose to be her
husband, "for better, for worse, for
richer, for poorer," and now she Is dis
satisfied, restless, unhappy. Why?
The reason I think In the great ma
jority of instances Is traceable to the
subjective disease of excessive Ideali
zation. She pictures to herself an
Ideal man. In all things perfect, chlv-!
alrous, gracious, tender, "intellectual,
urbane, endowed with all the talents
and with all the charms, but she for
gets that this Ideal man Is not; to. .be
found anywhere upon this planet
earth. '' , . . .
He is the creature of her dreams, a
pattern that exists only in the mount
of Imagination. And I believe that a
great deal of this sorrow of the home
would be dispelled like mist before
a breeze If men and women were to
cease thinking so much 'of the Ideal
and to live more In the actual. .
If Instead of living so much within
ourselves with the Ideal husband that
we have not married, or the Ideal wife
that we have not married, we would,
while our young love was yet Intense
and warm and strong, dedicate our
selves unreservedly to the actual man
or the actual woman we have married;
If we would say he Is not perfect, she
is not perfect, but I shall do my best
to make him perfect, my best to make
her perfect I am sure that an Im
mense weight of sorrow would, by
this very simple process of objectivity,
be lifted from the heart of the world.
now, too, the externallzation of
thought makes for freedom and cath
olicity In the matter of religion. One
of the sad facts of the world today,
as In all past days, is the fact of ex-
ctUBiveness in our religious life. The
Protestant lives so exclusively In his
Protestantism that he will not see any
truth In Catholicism. The Catholic
lives so exclusively In his Catholicism
that he will not see any truth In Prot
estantism. And they are both honest
Doth sincere. The Protestant la bon
est, sincere in his narrowness; the
Catholic honest, sincere in his narrow,
ii ess.
The trouble Is they do not under
stand each other. They live too en
tlrely within themselves,., within their
own notions, within their own creeds
and symbols, within the narrow con
nne or tneir own church. And not
knowing each the others point of
view, not knowing each the other's
belief, the other's history, tho other's
contribution to civilization, they fear
and antagonize each the other.
And what Is the remedy for this?
Again It Is objectivity, living in the
other man's world, trying to under
stand the process of his thought; liv
ing In his tradition, In his belief, in
his liturgy, In his ceremonials. And
were the churches so to externalize
their thought, though the unity of
Christendom might be yet far distant,
Christians would at least live In happy
amity, and the churches in perfect
concord. .
PASTOR CLOSE TO PEOPLE.
By Bishop Cheney.
Like the famous picture of Rem
brandt, painted by himself, so this Is
Christ's own portraiture by Christ's
own penclL If would be Interesting
to trace the parallel between the orien
tal shepherd in his relations to his
flock and Christ In His relations to
His people, but. my purpose Is rather
to point out the bearing of this par
able of the good shepherd upon the
life work of a Christian pastor. For
the name "pastor" Is only the Latin
term for a shepherd. In the repre
sentation of Himself as the great shep
herd of the sheep our Lord has
defined exactly what the pastor of a
congregation should aim to be.
I wish that less were said nowhrinyu
about the authority of the ministry
and more about its special work. Men
are not driven by authority into the
kingdom of Christ. Our Lord says
that the good shepherd is one who
goes before the flock and, Instead of
driving, leuds them. In Palestine the
business of the shepherd was to lead
his sheep to pasturage where the food
Indispensable to life is to be found. In
the same way the one duty of the
Christian shepherd is to make sure
that bis sheep are fed. That fact
should determine the character of
preaching. Not of necessity the
preaching which collects a crowd. The
beating of a gong can do that. Nor
the delivery of learned and eloquent
lectures. Real preaching is that which
feeds the soul. Men go away, not say-.
Ing: "How beautiful!" "How elo
quent!" but "How helpful!" "How It
touched my conscience!" "How It
strengthened me for my battles!"
But this pastoral feeding of the flock
Is not limited to pulpit effort. The
good shepherd "calls his sheep by
name, and they know his voice."
Clearly something is wrong In our
methods when the minister is called a
"pastor," that Is, a shepherd, and yet
knows as little of his people as a rail
way conductor knows of the passen
gers under his charge. The pastor
who is a stranger to the Inner lives
and to the homes of his people Is like
one who tries to evoke music from the
Instrument whose strings or kevs he
does not know one from another. Tn
Bur great cities the elprirv
wholly in fault when they have given
up the effort to know their people.
i.00 mucu outside work is laid upon
them which laymen would do as well
or better. ' ' ' - ..
How far from the standard I have'1
set up to-day my own long ministry.
mis umi i am more conscious than
you.- But it Is the only standnrd.
When my work is ended, rather than
any other epitaph would I have this
written above my dust: "He was a
pastor who fed the flock." '. "
WORLD NEEDS THE BIBLE.
By Rev. 6. R. Wallace.
Man needs a revelation of deltv.
Greece, the brain of the world flu its
clearest philosophic asre. had it
Athens with an altar bearing the' pit
eous Inscription, "To the unknown
God." Socrates, the greatest', pagan
thinker, acknowledged this .need of
revelation, saying: "We must of ne
cessity walftlH' some one from Him
who careth for ur shall come and in
struct us how. We oughtto behave
toward God and toward men." riato
said: "We cannot know of ourselves
what petition will be pleasing to God,
or what worship we should pay to
him, but it Is necessary that a lawgiv
er should be sent from heaven to In
struct us. Oh, how greatly do I long
to see that man!"
Man needs a revelation of duty. An
clent philosophers and modern skep
tics give us no code of morals com
parable to the Bible code. Those fa
miliar with classics and with the his
tory of Greece and Rome In their
balmiest days, as well as the writings
find 1 1 vo nf mmlA.n ,.T. 1 1
ivousseau, oitaire, Paine and othpra
need no demonstration of the world's
need of such a code a the Bible n.
piles. Professor Huxley, the father
of modern agnotlsticlsm, pleaded with
the school board for the Bible as the
source of the highest education for
children; he also confessed perplexity
"to know by what practical measures
the religious feeling, which Is the es
sential basis of conduct, was to be
kept up In the present utterly chaotic
state of opinions on these matters
without the use of the Bible." Mat
thew Arnold recommended the study
of the Bible for the same reason.
Adversity borrows its sharpest sting
from our lmpatlence.-BlshoD Home.
Douarhniita
Half a piinfiii hiit'
and a half of :"U"C0W
" ur cunfuu
flour, three eggs, two teaspoon
bakinar nowder half a .... . U1!
a little mace and mt
thtt OlltVQt nn1
v"- uuB"i tuiu UULLtjr. With 4k . .
together until very lieht. laa !Pw
the sifted flour, through which j!
baking powder has been atwA"
the milk and eggs. Place a pVuon!
uas uctju uiorougniv flours ... -
the dough a little less than Zl
of an tiiMi ,ii, ...... I""!
It In round cakes.. Hav . .1
quanmf of lard In a
be boiling hot. DroD in W J?
cakes, or more if the saucepan Is w
enouirh tint tn
mem, ana let Imi
untl a light brown all nm
will require about five minute. .2
" ' """" "uve risen to form,
round ball. They should h .. '
Beveral times In the boiling fat yZ
AAvlrtniv v n ii. "
vwa"js w uiwu uiem evenly,
wiu uuey xiiuv no roiioi in Ah.
or left plain, as the taste may be."
Croanettaa nf
- "..rum,
Boil a quarter of a pound of Italian
macaroni In salted water for twentj
five minutes. Drain, and put It In i
saucepan with a good ounce of butter
uau. au uuuee oi rarmesan cheese and
a quarter of an ounce of
smoked tongue cut Into small plcei
mm one irume cut the same. Tom all
xogeiner, tnen change It to a well-but.
tered sautoire, spreading the nr..
- - fftus.-
tlon one inch thick on tho hntt,
Cover with a buttered paper, presi It I
well down and put away to cool. Cat
the preparation with a plain paste-cutter
into six parts; roll each one la
grated Parmesan cheese, dip In beatea
egg and roll in grated fresh wblts
bread crumbs. Fry in very hot at
ior rour minutes, drain well and sem
on a hot dish with a folded napkin.
Salted Corn. " '
Boil the corn on the cob until th
milk ceases to flow when the grain
is pricked. With a sharp knife cnt off
the corn and pat'k In a stone Jar with
alternate layers of salt. Have each
layer of corn . two Inches deep, thea
put on that a layer of salt half an
Inch thick.:- Leti the toD laver be of
salt laid on tWi as deep as the lower
strata. Press . smooth and Dour care
fully over audited but not really hot
lard. Cut a..'ioufd.f1.paraftln' paper
the size of the mouth of,, the jar and
press this on. the lard. Keep in I
cool place;'" Cft course this soni most
be soaked ail night .before Jims-
Pen Vflnn.
For pea boud. shell a-dniirt'.nf heat
Boil them until soft in one and a half
pints of -water, addlne a few of the
pods to give flavor. Rub them through
a sieve. Add one quart of beef stock,
one teaspoonful of sugar and pepper
and salt to taste.. : Let them come Just
to a boil, then add half a pint of i
cream : and serve. Rome pood' cooks
advise putting a bit of soda with old
peas to make them tender and give
tftem a good, color, butf this is not
visable. If. they have reached that ex
tremity they are only, fit for goiip. A
little sugar is often added with wan
tage,, to replace natural sweetness.
Blackberry Vlneear.
Mash the berries, and when reduced
to a pulp add enough vinegar to cover
them. Set In a warm place near the
stove twelve hours, stirring every tw
hours. - Strain and press. Add
many mashed berries to the vinegar
It contained before, cover and leave
In the same warm place for six hour
more. Strain, measure the Juice,
half as much water as you have Juice
and stir Into this five and a half
pounds of granulated sugar for every
quart and a pint of liquid. Bring slow
ly to a boll; boll. up hard once, strain.
bottle, cork and seal.
r,nil Hfinhnrb.
Cut the rhubarb into inch length
without peeling. Weigh, and to every
pound of the rhubarb allow three-quar
ters of a nound of granulated s8ar-
Put the Bunrar over the fire with
very little water and boll to a tliji
elrup, skimming frequently. Turn w
the rhubarb and cook for five nilnutrt-
"With a perforated spoon . remove th
rhubarb, pack into Jars, fill ltD ,b'
boiling sirup and fit on airtight covert.
BA MtA-ai.a Pair A.
One cupful of sugar, two-thirds of
cupful ot
New Orleans molasses, three eggs, the
muted rind of n lpmnn.'nnd one ami
third tpflonnnnfiila of soda. W 8ur
milk la linn1 Inotonrl of preani,
whole cupful of butter. This cA
can hA Onrnrail ontt also frlllt Ja'
ed, but in all cases it must not h
turned out of the pan uutll neaw
told.