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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1905)
leather shoes and their horses are al most too skittish, but the girls are all rignt If their clothes set better than you thought they would, why you must remember that they subscribe for the very same fashion magazine that you do. EOFLlE CHAI. T. ADA K. SOCLE, Pnb.. TOLEDO OREGON. LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER. " CIVILIZED MEN SHOULD BE ABOVE WAR. By Henry Imboachere, I prefer teaching our children that war ia one of the direst curses that afflict this earth, and that, while all should be prepared, if needs be, to defend our indeiendence, our persistent aim should be to avoid all wars, and as was well said by Lord Fercy "nations should consider, not how little they can concede to one another, ut how far they can meet each other's views." This is the spirit that now animates the work ing men of France, of Germany, and of Italy. Their lead ers are ever deprecating any recrudescence of the military spirit that has conduced so often to war In the past It Is the spirit that animates our own worklngmen. If we were attacked they would need no military tomfooleries In na tional schools to induce them to fight for their country. But they know that peace Is the best of policies for them, as never has there been a war which has not been harm ful to those engaged In Industry. Napoleon infused a mili tary spirit into Frenchmen. What did the worklngmen of France gain by his conquests? What do British work ers gain by our annexations of Uganda, of the Soudan and of the empire of Sokoto? What have they gained by our war in South Africa, except having to pay more for some of their necessaries and the knowledge that it has paved the way for the introduction of Chinese chattels to work in the Transvaal mines for the benefit of cosmopolitan mil lionaires? A tribe of savages Is always cultivating a military spirit. Its sole occupation is war, and the arts of peace are de gpN1 pnntffmptlhlp to mn of spirit. Among HvIHtm! men there ought to be a higher Ideal, and there, would be were It that there are usually too many missionaries of strife among them ever appealing to the baser passiom and trying to persuade their fellow-countrymen that there Is something noble and elevating in war and that a soldlei Is the noblest of human beings. Armies are necessary evils, but for my part I prefer a procession of trade-unionists to the marching by of armed regiments, and the simple and homely garb of a worker to the tawdry trappings of men of war. I respect a man who honorably fulfills his calling as a soldier, but be is no better in my eyes than the man who honestly labors In other and more peaceful avocations. By T. P. O'Connor. There are hundreds In every great city, and In every country there are thousands of men, women and children with a latent capacity of heroism who go through life unnoted or despised, because no accident has evoked it. Again, the recognition or Precognition of those heroisms which accident has evoked Is often accidental. They happen, perhaps, inopportunely, when at tention is absorbed by something which Imposes more upon the public Imagination. In the same week In which the name of the boy hero of the Norge was in every paper and on every lip a boy hero of our own, who threw himself In front of an express train to seize a little brother and fling him aside off the track at the cost of his own life, attracted hardly a moment's notice. Dumont records the following Instance of a woman's heroism during the siege of Gibraltar: "The count d'Artols came to St. Roch to visit the place and works. I well re member that his highness, while inspecting the lines In company with the Duke de Crlllon, both of them with their suite, alighted, and all lay flat on the ground to shun the effects of a bomb that fell near a part of the barracks where a Frenchwoman had a canteen. This woman, witt two children on her arm, rushes forth, sits with the ut most sangfold on the bombshell, puts out the match, and thus extricates from danger all that were around her. Num bers were witnesses of this incident, and his hlghnesa granted her a pension of three francs a day and promised to promote her husband after the siege. The Duke de Crillon Imitated the Prince's generosity and insured to her a payment of five francs a day." Here, from a contemporary journal. Is an account of an act of similar intrepidity, giving the names of the heroes: "After a royal salute from the principal fort, St Heliere, in the Island of Jersey, the matches used on the occasion were lodged In the magazine without being properly ex tinguished. On the evening of the same day smoke was perceived to issue from an air hole in one end of the maga zine, and the alarm whs soon spread. Three men volun teered their services and were bold enough to advance to and break open the magazine, where they found two cais sons of wood, filled with ammunition, on fire, near which stood an open barrel of gunpowder. A flannel cartridge was almost burned through and some of the beams that supported the roof were on fire. By their exertions the fire was extinguished. The magazine contained 200 barrel of gunpowder, besides charged bombs." FORTUNE TELLING IS UNSCIENTIFIC Br Andrew Wilson. To assume that In some mysterious fashion or other the indications, not of character merely, but of a person's past and future, are to be deter mined by a survey of certain lines on the palm, is to assort a doctrine which Is monstrous in re spect of Its absurdity. Such a statement Is easi ly made, but when one calls for proof he does not find it in the results of the palmist's practice, and certainly no explanation is forthcoming from th side of physiology. The whole soothsaying business is a uiatter of tricks, such as can Impress the credulous alone. I never heard the case against palmistry and fortune-telling at large better summed up than in the expression of an American critic. He declared that If there was any truth or reality in the art the palmist could make his for tune on me iuri Dy uacKiog winners, tnat his operations on the stock exchange would soon render him Independent and that if a life lnsnrnncA rnmrunt mnl.l trust tn hi - . 1 ----- - . i. u ui-i iu uio revelations regarding the duration of life of Insurers, he would be retained by It at the salary of a president That which also surprises me is the faith which cul tured people occasionally are found to place in fortune telling. I have read of cases In which It was averred that a lady looking Into a crystal described to bystanders scenes she had never witnessed, but with which scenes they were themselves familiar. Now, one would wish here for much more exact evidence than mere hearsay. In a scientific In vestigation we should have all the evidence duly noted, and every possibility of fraud or error avoided. There would require to be an exact Inquiry into all the circum stances under which the alleged reproductions in the crys tal, construed by the brain of a person unfamiliar with the scenes, were carried out I do not know if In a single Instance this plan was pursued. Why should we not apply the care we exercise In ordinary matters of life to the pre tensions of the fortune-teller? Besides, even on scientific grounds, we might find In certain brain-vagaries materials for accounting for the phenomena on the lines of uncon scious memory and reproduction of impressions. As for the palmists, let us devoutly hope we have heard the last of them. On this point I have my doubts. After putting your best foot forward get there with both feet An old bachelor says an optimist is a married man who is glad of it In the bright lexicon of the hustler there is no such word as "enough." A wise physician sometimes flatters a man by telling him he baa brain tag. Many a woman who can converse In five languages is unable to shut up In one. If wives would continue to be sweet hearts lots of husbands would cease to pay their club dues. An honest miller separates the wheat from the chaff and converts the latter Into breakfast food. Many a man talks back to his wife for the purpose of affording her the pleasure of getting in the last word. A colored philosopher says there is less luck In a rabbit's foot than there Is In a chicken's foot providing the rest of the fowl Is attached. Jean De Keszke gets $30 an hour for music lessons, i'erliaps if Pattl could do that she might forego the sweet sor row of saying good-by to American audiences. The King of Spain has consented to net as arbitrator between Honduras and Nicaraguu. Who can deny that Progress Is progressing when children may settle disputes between great nations? A Boston society woman who en deavored to smuggle a pearl necklace through a custom house was caught at It and the Jewels were confiscated. Still, this probably had less than Mr. Douglas' advertising to do with the result in Massachusetts. "Not a single religious problem of any importance has been solved by the theological seminaries of the Unit ed States in fifty years," says Presi dent Harper of the University of Chi cago. Therefore he wants his univer sity to go to work and solve them all. It is a great undertaking, and will probably keep the Chicago Institution busy for the next year at least. Spain Is about to Hbollsh bull-flght-lng. No country in the civilized world has changed so much in the last six years as Spain. The effect of the prompt and unequivocal defeat admin istered to her navy by the United States has been highly beneficial to the nation. Her people no longer stand against a wall and whine. The loss of their colonies has proved an Incentive to the development of the resources of the peninsula. The lowering of the traditional Spanish pride has induced Inhabitants of city and country to work as never before since the Roman Invasion, i We pray thee, O Yankee ingenuity, to give us: A window shade that rolls up straight a window shade roller that stops winding when the tassel reaches the pole, a window snsh that doesn't rattle when the wind blows, a rug that won't turn up at the edges, a silver service that will not tarnish, door hinges that won't creak, door locks with spring latches which yield to their keeper without the constant assistance of soap, a bunch of keys that will not rust milk bottles that will clean them selves, garbage palls that will defy white wings and the porter, steam heaters that won't stink, gas tips that won't clog and fish tall, n griddle that Won't smoke, a clock that keeps time. Sunday long since ceased to be ex clusively a day of worship in the Unit ed States. In fact, the percentage of the population who are habitual church goers Is comparatively Insignificant. Sunday has become not much more than a day of rest and recreation. In spite of helpful laws and ordinances It la a dltllcult thing to preserve a de corous observance of Sunday. The declaration of Christ thnt the" Sabbath was made for man, not man for Sab buth, has been given a latitudinarlan interpretation that allows not only ur gent and necessary duties to be per formed on that day but tolerates open saloons, theaters, ball games and ottier kinds of sports and amusements. You've formed your notions of coun try people from "The Old Homestead" and these by-gosh Mirundy novels. The real farmers nowadays drive Into town In double-seated carriages with match ed bays curried so that you could see to comb your hair In their glossy sides The single rigs sparkle In the sun, con veying young men and young women of such cleuu-cut high-bred features as to make us wonder. They all come from good old stock. The young fel lows run a little too strongly to patent While -we still insist that people who deal In articles wherewith one may take life secretly shall be licensed and made to show their fitness for public and professional trust we show a sin gular Inconsistency in demanding no license to make or sell or use the means of sudden and violent death. In other words, while we demand skill and care in making, bottling, labeling, prescribing and selling certain strenu ous alkalis, acids and drugs that have a specific effect on the functioning of various organs, we will sell to any body a gun, plstor, a box of ammuni tion, a ton of dynamite, a keg .of pow der, a bomb, a rocket a dagger, any thing In fact wherewith the end of an enemy or a host of enemies can be secured. A magazine writer says the church is In crying need of "business clergy men." He explains that congregations of which he knows have grown from almost nothing to great size because of the business ability of the pastors chosen to lead them. He thinks the Influence of the church will wane and dwindle unless men fitted to deal with administrative and financial problems enter the ministry In large numbers. We do not remember ever having seen the commercial trend of the present age better Illustrated than in this ar ticle. Probably the writer would con sider a great poet, a great scholar or a great statesman a failure unless his success were attested by the number of his disciples or the size of his bank account Business ability is a good thing to have, whatever one's calling, but the need of the church Is more true spirituality in its leadership. It may always have been so, but It Is especially true to-day, that this coun try is producing a higher type of wom anhood than of manhood. In all our towns' and cities there are more young women whom you would welcome to your homes as daughters-in-law than young men whom you would welcome as sons-in-law. There are reasons why this is so, but there is no excuse that It Is so. There is nothing In the world so well worth looking after as the boy, and there Is no human being in the world so neglected. We have pro vided little place, scant room for him. He is welcome to the home as a baby and he is welcome as a mau, but there Is little welcome for him as a boy. We chaperon our girls and carefully guard them against unworthy boys, but we leave the boy to choose for him self his associates and his achieve ments. We give him much sage ad vice, perhaps, but little sympathetic guidance. The loneliest, most unloved human creature Is the boy. Girls are naturally winsome, gentle, companion able. They win their way in homes and hearts. But the boy, 'noisy, awk ward, mischievous, is Invited Into few homes and feels none too much at home in his own. About the only door that swings with sure welcome to the boys, about the only chair that is shoved near the lire especially for the boy, about the only place where he is sure of a cordial greeting is where he ought not to go. It is one of the hard est things in the world to get hold of a boy to get a sure grip on him. It Is hard to win the companionship, the faith and confidence of your boy. He has almost occult powers of observa tion and conclusion. You think you know him through an occasional glance, but the chances are he knows you far better than you know him. He Is hungry for companionship and he will have It. You can't chain him away from it. He wants the com panionship of boys, and nothing will take Its place. If the rime of selfish ness has so Incased your heart that the Joys and hopes of your boy cannot enter Into it the boy la to be pitied, but so are you. Few fathers and sons are more than fairly Intimate acquaint ances,. It Is always the father's fault. How Odors Move from Place to Place That odors move with the air, or dif fuse through it like gases and do nor puss through it In waves, as sounds do. or In swiftly-moving particles like the radium emanations, seems to be con clusively shown by recent experiments on the propagation of scents through small tubes. In such tubes there can be no general motion of the air, and the rate of travel of an odor is ex tremely slow. That of ammonia took over two hours to get through a tube a yard and a hnlf long. The presence of the ammonia could be detected chemically at about the same tlni that its smell was noticed. It seemed to make little difference In the speed whether the tube was held horizontal ly or vertically, or whether the odor moved up or down. Success. His Statu Ie(lnel. "Is Blyklns a golf player?" "No," unswered the contemptuous expert. "He likes to be on the links and uses a golf ball ns a pretext He's merely a pedestrian." Washington Star. WHY HEROES' FAME IS ACCIDENTAL. NEW EUECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE. Future Railroading May Be Greatly Changed by Speedy Engine. A new electric locomotive which may revolutionize the motive power on rail roads was given a trial at Schenec tady, N. Y., a few days ago, while scores of men prominent in railroad and electrical circles watched the tests. The locomotive was built In that city for the New York Central termi nal service In New York City, and the trials demonstrated that It will ulti mately provide high speed motive pow er for railroad traffic. It is expected to develop a speed of 100 miles an hour. The official tests of the big. 05-ton electric locomotive took place on a stretch of four miles of especially pre pared track near Schenectady, and in the presence of many leading railroad olliclals and hundreds of deeply inter ested spectators. This extraordinary locomotive, the most powerful trans portation engine In the world, pulled a train of four heavy coaches at the rate of 72 miles an hour, and only the shortness of the track prevented it from attaining an even higher velocity. In the cab of the locomotive when it left Its shed for the trial was W. K. Vanderbllt Jr., who worked the con troller. The engine was pronounced a great success and all who watched the tests were strong in the belief that it will be a great feature In rail roading In the future. This locomotive is the first built of 40 ordered by the New York Central for Its New York terminal. It had had several preliminary trials, but this was the official test for speed, drawing ca pacity and acceleration. Prominent electrical engineers and railroad men from all over the country were pres ent. There is little doubt in the minds of the officials who witnessed the tests that a speed of 90 to 100 miles an hour can be made. There was no heat in the cab, ho noise save the whirring of the air com pressors for the brakes and no smoke to pollute the clear country air, yet this huge machine with Its 3,000 horse power pulled a train of ten cars, weighing COO tons, at the rate of 50 miles an hour and actually beat an ex press train which passed on another track. It also pulled a 400-ton train of five cars at a speed of t2 miles an hour. The locomotive Is one of a number that will be used by the Central for hanling through passenger trains through the Park avenue tunnel In the metropolis. With one of this type, trains of ten or more cars may be haul ed at express speed of 60 to 70 miles per hour, and the design and method of control ara such that two or mora lo comotives can be coupled together and operated by a single engineer from the leading cab, so that the size of the train that may be under the control of one engineer is practically unlim ited so far as the question of motive power is concerned. The locomotive Is double-ended and can be run in either direction with equal facility. The maximum horse power of this locomotive Is approxi mately 3,000, which is considerably greater than that of the largest steam locomotive. Man a Member of Mineral Kingdom. That the minute traces of metallic substances found in living bodies are not accidental, but essential to the performance of the functions of life, Is asserted by Herrera, a French bi ologist He goes so far as to say that zoology and botany are but chapters of mineralogy, so important is the rolo played In organic life by these so-called Inorganic substances. For instance, all the phenomena of movemment In an animal are, he asserts, due to oxida tion. As to nutrition, it is Impossible, he says, when the food is deprived of its mineral elements. Dogs fed on substances from which the salt and other Inorganic matter has been care fully removed die of starvation. At the bottom of our vital processes, as serts this writer, are fermentation and oxidation, or their analogies; and these depend on the presence of certain min eral bodies in the tissues. Even the role of pepsin In digestion seems to de pend on the presence of Iron. In short the organic substances on which life depends are, he says, "prepared in in organic workshops with mineral re agents;" and thus a living being is practically a member of the mineral kingdom. Success. Amended. "Oh, my!" groaned the tramp, who had been induced to saw a little wood, "dls Is hard work, lady." "Well," replied the Boston lady, "you know the scriptures say 'man must earn his bread by the er per splratlon of his brow. "Philadel phia Ledger. A man's relatives should live so fai away that he feels like putting on clean shirt when he goes to see them NEW YORK CENTRAL'S NEW ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE.
