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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1904)
I LIHCOLN GQUHTY LEffi. of only thirty-five dollnrs. Many a poor family in America has gone deep ly into debt to bury its members be cause of fear of what the neighbors misht say. The fashion of simplicity, set by the Knglish great, might well be adopted by rich and poor alike. CHAB. V. ADA. E. SOCTLX. Pubs. TOLEDO. .OREGON: k- I j lil-f.J ffiVKWJ' N U tl H j mtj mrexxna a-na nAuras p j R--rj ir Every dog has his yesterday to look back upon with regret. A novel course has recently been opened in a training school of kinder garten teachers in an Eastern city. It is called a course In home-making. Its prospectus recognizes the fact that the preparation for the most Important iu- The world may owe every man a 1 dustrv In which women can enirace living, but it is too busy to hunt him j ll!ls iways been more or less huphaz- Eat, drink and be merry at least until indigestion sets in. up and tell him so. Colombia has a deficit of 30,000.000 pesos, Colombian money. That must be almost as much as 30 cents in real money. If Algy Sartoris brings Canada over and forces it on us, we might take it as a giftbut no fighting. It's too expensive. ' As long as immigration keeps up to the high figures shown by the last report, no fear of race suicide need be entertained. A Philadelphia woman has been awarded a verdict of $4,000 for a brok en Jaw, and her husband feels like it is a shame to take the money. It Is announced that Uncle Russell Sage is now able to eat five square meals a day, while poor old TTnole John Rockefeller is held down to five square crackers. A girl is always sure she is having a good time when two men ask her to go out and she goes with the one she doesn't want to go with to make the other one mad. ard. If a girl could make a loaf of bread and a cup of coffee, if she knew that beefsteak Is bought by the pound and not by the yard, and that windows should not be washed outside in freez ing weather, she was too often thought to be equipped for housekeeping at least when the family was to consist of "just herself and her husband." The miseries 'of the first year of marriage, with so meager a supply of knowledge and experience, are written deep in the memories of many a husband and wife. It Is a good sign that a popular school has had the sense and the courage to establish a department where girls over eighteen years old may study the house Intelligently its construction, its decoration and furnishing; house keeping, with its expenses, Its ac counts, its marketing, its cooking and its laundry work; and finally the nur ture and training of children, from the mr of their physical needs to the sc lection of their games and their books. We have acted too long upon the as sumption that home-makers are born, not made. It Is high time that we should at least make the experiment of teaching women expressly how to meet the varied demands of life in the home. King Alfonso Is again reported to be on the lookout for a wife, but It is denied that he has any idea of choos lng an American. For this we should be devoutly thankful. Sir Wilfrid Laurler, the Canadian premier, says the United States is a grasping nation. Well, in a sense we are. We hold fast to everything that of right belongs to us. Obtaining money under false pre tenses is a penal offense everywhere, unless the money aggregates millions and the false pretenses consist of wat ered stock, bogus values and dummy directors. In five years the number of apples exported from this continent to Europe has Increased from 25,000 to more than a million and a half barrels. Somebody must have taught Europeans to make apple pie. In the Cosmopolitan Magazine Mr. Wells, the romancer, tells of a country where there are wasps as big as barn owls. A man or a boy who has ever Interfered with the wasp's business knows that this is no exaggeration. At Tenrhyn in North Wales work men who struck three years ago have returned to work without obtaining a single concession from their employer, Lord Tenrhyn. Great suffering among their families caused the men to give up. The noble lord probably considers this another triumph for civilization It is now said that the Czar desired to have the questions at issue between Russia and Japan submitted to The Hague tribunal, but was dissuaded from that course by the ministers which Is not unlikely. The bureaucra cy is willing the Czar should a mute himself with such notions as The Hague court, but when it comes to practical matters oh, no! It docs no more good to give advice to people about to go into the woods on hunting expeditions as to what they should or should not shoot at than it does to give labored directions as to bow one can save himself from drown lng wheu he suddenly meets the ne cessity for such effort. The man with the gun will continue to blaze away a anything he thinks is a deer, and the struggling man in the water will lose every vestige of presence of mind and do the very things that will soonest send him to the bottom. The legitimate alarm lately express od as to the character of some of the immigration now reaching our shores the refuse of southern Europe, brought hero by steamship companies, which disloyally Induce unwelcome im migrants to come here by holding out fulse and unwarranted hopes should never for a moment blind our eyes to the desirability of getting good immi grants, of whom there cannot be too many. What lias mude this country the great nation it is is the blending of many races, the perpetuation of the best in them all. The most hopeful characteristic of the American colleges is the self-sup porting student. The boys who have worked their way through have not only conquered the adverse conditions to which they were born but have also always adorned all professions and walks of life. It has been said that any boy in this country who wants an education may get it, if he wants it bad enough. The truth of this is being demonstrated now more clearly than ever before. There Is common com plaint that the poor boy's chances to get ahead in the world are not what they used to be. This is not borne out by the facts in any department of life, More than ever before, character is the prime capital for success, and never before were a poor boy's opportunities for moulding his character as he sees fit as good as they are now. There was a time in the history of American colleges when the earning of money by a student during vacation to help pay his tuition bills was so exception al a proceeding as to excite remark. But there appears to have been a great change. The growth of the practice is indicated by the report of the secre tary of the Columbia College commit tee on employment for students, from which It appears that Columbia stu dents during the past summer earned $31,401, an Increase of $13,000 over their earnings for the year before. The number of vacation workers this year was nearly 10 per cent of the entire university attendance. The occupa tions engaged in ranged in variety from truck driving to the operation of a printing office, and the largest sum earned was $1,000 by a law student. Many, no doubt, also carry on wage earning labor during the college term It is unfortunate that this should have been the case, for no college course can be what It ought to be when broken into by the necessities of self support, though it is, of course, far better that a student should study under the disadvantage than that he should not be a student at all. Besides it has Its compensations. What the wage-earning student loses from the college course he makes up in practi cal application of his talents to the work of real life. - He Is better pre pared, perhops, to step into his chosen occupation when college days are over than is the fellow student whose way hus been made easy and who knows nothing of the difficulties to be encoun tered. The boy who works for his ed ucation learns what an education Is for and places It In its proper perspec tive In his view of life. And In mak ing for it he unconsciously builds up within himself something of more value even than education, and that Is character. No boy need despair be cause his father Is not rich enough to buy him an education. If he wants It bud enough be can get It. and by working for It get something better still along with it. ' ' ' "I J A MAN MARRIES A FOOL. By Helen Oltttleld. As a rule, women of more than common talent are rarely belles; the beauty or the heiress counts her suitors by the score, where the woman of un usual Intellect may reckon hers upon the fingers of one hand, and still have digits to spare. True, the lovers of the clever woman may be and prob ably are, far superior to those of the society belle, yet the fact remains that many men prefer that their women should not be too clever. Exactly where the too much begins and ends it is not easy to say; tastes differ, and what one man counts as dazzling may be dull to another. Besides, brilliant men often find much pleasure In the society of brilliant women; still, it is the exception that even they demand a superior order of in tellect as requisite for a wife. Clever and able men are quite content not to ask overmuch wisdom upon the part of the women whom they marry; it would seem as though the man, being the head of the house, felt himself compe tent to furnish the family stock of brains, even as he sup plies the family exchequer. There is an old-fashioned no tion with which modern progress has by no means done away to the effect that women, as compared with men, have small need of brains as an equipment for life. Also, there is no denying the fact that folly in woman has a great although singular attraction for men, even of the graver sort. The foolish woman may be good In her way; she usually is, which is fortunate, since a wicked woman without bal last is worse than a demon. But sins of Ignorance are to the full as disastrous as those of willful wickedness, some times more so, since provision is efficient against them. A foolish woman is never to be trusted under any circum stances. She does the things she ought not to have done, she leaves undone the things which she ought to have done, and, still worse, she is always saying the wrong thing, for she never understands the virtue of silence. The proverb says that many a fool has passed for a wise man simply by holding his tongue and lotting others speak, but no such aphorism has ever been uttered with regard to a woman, since the foolish woman is always a chatterbox. The man who marries -such an one has no resource but to treat her as though she were a child and not expect too much of her. He may count himself fortunate If she Is sweet tempered and anxious to win his praise and approval. and a substantially Identical creed. Of late years the lug of amity between England and America has stoJu grown, and in England at least the great truth that a w with kinsmen beyond the Atlantic would he one ol if greatest calamities that could fall upon the world lias b come generally realized. With increased facilities 0f eo munication the personal contact between the two nntl'" has vastly Increased. Both the best and most frivol0" elements In each are in constant touch, and are constant interchanged. In finance, in commerce, in social life i common amusements and common intellectual pursults'a sympathies, the bond. Is dally strengthening. " It does not appear probable that the relations of tl two nations will take the form of any general or permaneii alliance. Each country has large classes of Interests win which the other Is almost unconcerned. English oplni noV cordially acquiesces in the Monroe doctrine, whl America Is happily free from all obligations to meddle wit purely European complications. Limited alliances almlni at special objects may probably arise, but on the whole th unity of the English speaking races is likely to depen! much on the increasing power of common sympathies, eoni nion principles, and common interests. Both countries in ...v.. a.u Si,c iivuu imam iu popular senti ment must be the foundation of their friendship. BASIS OF AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING ALLIANCE. By the Rt. Hon. W. E. H. Lecky. The Idea has been steadily growing that In foreign countries the first aim of an English statesman should be to establish close and friend ly relations with the United States. England is by her position lu the world an eminently free rade country, while America is strongly protec tionist. Probably a more serious fact in affecting the future relations of the two countries, how ever, Js a growing divergence of racial elements, for the vast flow of European emigration to America is constantly reducing the proportion of the Anglo-Saxon and even of the Teutonic race In the American population. Yet with all this there remains a far greater community of thought and feeling between England and the United States than between England and any other foreign European country. The English common law lies at the foundation of the American legal system. The two nations have the same language, In a measure the same history and the same traditional sympathies and characteristics. They havo grown i: under the Influence of a common literature OPPORTUNITIES OPEN TO DOMESTICS. Year by year, generation after generation, the daughters of the poor pass in hundreds of thou sands from the narrow means and lowly culture of the cottage or the tenement Into the atmos phere of a higher social state. They go tm what is often a pinched and noisy or quarrelsome home into some family where they will day by day live amid good manners, measured speech, and Ideas of refinement, progress and the mairt of events. They receive, Insensibly, an extremely valuable expansion or tnougnts, reelings, and views of life, and the) more capable among them quickly learn something of what Is best in their mistresses and their manners. They pick up much information useful to them afterwards as wives mothers, cooks and nurses, and if they be careful aid dutiful they can help the people at home and save up money to maite a nttie start ror themselves and their bus bands when they marry. What good fortune it is, if they only realized it, to sme good masters and mistresses! How happy and honorable that condition may be rendered where a serving maid properly self-respecting, proudly repays by faithful wort and humble attachment the fair treatment which has fall en to her lot! Good masters and mistresses will almost everywhere draw good servants to them; yet It does seem as if the grand old ideas upon the subject which animated bygone servants of all descriptions are on the wane In the present welter of policies and principles. That would be the worst thing possible for our social progress, and, above all, for those classes which at present derive a stupendous advantage from the domestic Intermingling of rank with rank. The army and navy have been, and are still, the best schools for teaching obedience, fidelity, and d itlfulnesi to the youthful male population. Its female portion never had a better or happier machinery for the same Instruc tion as our customs have created in the passage of working girlhood through the households of the cultured and well to do. Sorrowful will be the time when this natural and happy social system comes to an end; but it will come, If right hearted women do not everywhere repudiate the ridic ulous creature who fears to call herself a "servant." WILL BE FIRST LADY OF OHIO. It was the wish of the late Lord Salisbury that the expenses of his funeral should not exceed a hundred dollars. They did not exceed seventy dollars. The Duke of Westminster, who also held a strong opinion on the .wickedness of ostentatious extrara gance at funerals, was burlod at a cost Royal Children's Clothea. Prince Edward of Wales and his brothers are allowed to wear their old clothes nt Sandrlnghnm and get them selves as dirty as they please. While In IxMidon they have to change their attire four times a day, and keep them selves always spick and span. It goes without saying that they much prefer Sandrlngham. Few Kentucky Murder Punished. Only nine men have been banged la Kentucky in the last five years, al. though there have been 703 murder, ' Mrs. Myron T. Herrlck, Wife Ohio's Governor-elect. Mrs. Myron T. Herrlck, wife of the Governor-elect of Ohio, has by her beauty, wlusomeness and tact won for herself almost as much of a national reputation as her husband. A gen tlewoman In the fullest sense of the word, she presides over her home with exquisite grace. The close friend ship between the Herrlcks aud the McKlnleys brought mbs. hehbick. her into the social limelight a bit more prominently per haps than she would otherwise have cared for, and her visits to the White nouso were notable because of the favor with wlilch she was received. Mrs. Herrlck dresses beautifully, and is an enthusiastic automoblllst, a fad that is more prevalent in Cleveland than almost any other city In the United Suites. She and Mr. Herrlck and their son, rarnieley Webb Her rlck, are seen frequently In the parks and on the streets of Cleveland. The Herrlcks ore an ideal happy family, the absence or the son at Yale, where he is a senior, being a hardship they have to endure and one which the fam ily are rejoicing will end with young Herrlck s graduation. TUNNELING THE HUDSON. The Idea Is by No Means Ons of Re cent Birth. The idea of tunneling the Hudson is by no means of recent birth. Several attempts in this direction have been made since 1874, when the first com pany to undertake the construction of a sub-Hudson tunnel came Into being. Little progress had been made, how ever, when, through on accident to the door of an air-lock at a critical moment, the tunnel was flooded and a number of laborers were drowned. Tho water was pumped out and work resumed, but e bad leak once more caused a long delay. By this time something had been accomplished ' In POSTMEN ISE ONE WHEELED CART. """"" SB-arsaBt-B- a-MBfaa-a-ar tmm The rural free delivery carriers of Central Illinois are deeply interested in the vehicle used by a carrier on a route running out of Nlantic, and which was Invented by J. H. Grosh, the postmaster at that point. It has but single wheel and was designed especially for the carriers of the rural dis tricts. The Idea was suggested to Mr. Grosh by the villainous roads of Central Illinois in the winter months, which are almost impassable nt times to the ordinary four-wheeled vehicle, even with two horses and with no more load than a driver and small consignment of mall. The inventor's idea has been to reduce the friction, and there Is naturally much less in one wheel than in lour, . The cart can be adapted to the use of one or two horses. Its equilibrium s maintained on the principle of a three-legged stool, each shaft represent ing one leg and the single wheel the other. both tunnels, but the company had now come to the end of Its financial resources and was obliged to order a permanent cessation of work. The years passed, and eventually an En glish syndicate undertook to complete the tunnel. In their turn they found the task beyond their powers. Final ly Mr. Jacobs declared his willingness to begin where the others, defeated, hod withdrawn. He and his associates are now satisfied that they have solved the most difficult problem likely to arise in this or future subaqueous tun nel work. They have assuredly proved that air, if properly reinforced, will serve to stem the most powerful of torrents, and the demonstration of this mutt be said to mark a milestone In the march of engineering sclence. Century. Tobacco in Japan. Tobacco is both cultivated and con sumed on A lnrp Renin In Jnnnn. Th plant was introduced by the Portu guese in the seventeenth century and the trade in it is a government mo nopoly. ' Tobacco is almost universal ly used in a small pipe. While cigar ettes are manufactured In large quu ties, they are nearly all exported. Dlplbmacy Is the art of promising man whnt h want in a way that WW make him cease to want it All's well that ends accordlnj your own diagram of the finish.