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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1905)
LINCOLN COUNTl LEADER CHAS. F. ft ADA E. SOLLE. Pub: TOLEDO OREGON next to Great Britain 1 the United States. The Rritish mercantile marine f-xceeds in tonnage that of Russia. Germany, France. Italy, the Unite i States and Japan put together. Ths niercantile marine tonnage of Great Britain reaches KOlS.uoi ton. There is no beef trust Itself. It says so Men become cranks by confining themselves to the serious side of their The czar's boy may have to go out side and look for a job when he gets old enough to work. What's the matter with Russia? Tt would be much easier to enuniernte what isn't the matter. A Russian grand duke's house was rocked bj the mob, while most of the Russian fleet was being rocked in the cradle cf the deep. There is a town in Kentucky that bears the name of Rig. As it grows older and larger the name 6hould be changed to correspond. A leading critic says: "Few of the poets are now working at their trade." How does he know, since the real poets are always dead? A French physician declares kissing to be a "natural therapeutic practice." It seems to be Just as well to take that view of the matter. A Baltimore couple wants a divorce because they can't agree how the chicken should be cooked. Many a couple would like to get into a stew over a chicken. A teacher who claims that two pies may be digested where formerly a small piece of one was a sure. substi tute for hari-knri deserves an ovation from the undertakers. It Is suggested that John D. Rocke feller offer a large cash prize for the best nethod of scattering oil on the water. This would be an excellent .stroke from a business standpoint. Little Devereux Blake declares that Eve ate a quince and not an apple on a memorable occasion In the Garden of Eden. But how could anybody ever have been tempted to eat a quince. "My observation Is," observed Sen ator Depew, retrospectively, the mat ter of international marriages being under consideration, "that the title generally chases the girl, and not the girl the title." They keep on discovering valunhle things that were hidden by Mrs. Chad wick. She must have been busy hid ing them for several months before he didn't know there was anything wrong about it. Another great thinker has cbme to the front with a theory as to the for bidden fruit eaten by Mother Eve. He ays it was a crab apple. This lets down all the bars. Anybody may en ter Into the competition now. Professor Monroe B. Snyder an nounces that he has discovered the existence of radium in the sun. Now, If he will discover some means of transportation and bring It here the general public will take far more in terest in the dlscoverj'i if it be a discovery. A little boy In Berlin only 13 years of nge has been convicted of the crime of lese majeste and has been sen tenced to three months' Imprisonment. In America a youngster of similar nge Is not accounted guilty of anything more serious than lese puterfamllins, entailing a brief but painful visitation to the woodshed. If murderers are hanged for the ef fect on other criminals, it Is certain ly undesirable that it should be known that they meet their death with perfect composure and In the full assurance of a blissful immortality. There Is no objection to their making any prepara tions they may see fit for another world, but these should be for home consumption. Executions should ull be made as free from romantic glamour as possible. Otherwise hang ing ought to be abolished. Santo Domingo Is lucky to have an honest, good-natured, powerful friend ready to do her a service. By the protocol recently signed the United States assumes the burden of helping the little nation straighten out her finances, and in addition guarantees her territorial integrity. If the United States were not at hand to give aid the future would be black, for Snnto Domingo's European creditors have reached the limit of their patience. The best treatment the delinquent na tion would receive from the European powers would be a good deal worse than the worst treatment she will re ceive from us. It is true our action is not entirely disinterested. We take a small burden upon us now In order to avoid the possibility of a great deal larger burden later on. Nor will w. be disinterested in the action we shall take when Snnto Domingo's finances are finally put in good order, sinew we shall withdraw from the custom houses and rid ourselves of the nuis ance of managing them as swiftly as possible. If any of the South American republics are exclt'd or wor ried when they hear of the new ar rangement they will assuredly calm themselves at once when they read in full the terms of the protocol. That document Bhows plainly enough that we are not seeking to take unjust ad vantages even over the smallest and weakest of our neighbors. The perma nently important feature of the proto col Is our guarantee of territorial in tegrity. Santo Domingo is a thousand times happy to have such protection. A report made recently by the Bilt- lsh Board of Trade on the nuval ex penditures of the leading powers for the latest avnlluble year presents In teresting figures. The report deals with the year ending March 31, VMl From the exhibit it appears that the United Kingdom spends more on 1U navy than Russia, Germany and France spend on their combined fleets. The British naval expenditure Is more than double that of the United States, Russia s naval expenditure for tU) year named was live times as large es that of Japan. Russia spent less than 0 per cent of her revenues on her navy. Japan spent 0 per cent of her revenues in this way. The country which now spends most on lu navy IT DOESN'T PAY TO BLLFF. By tdoumrt Rod. "Bluff,' like America, the country where It originated, is a uew expression, but the thing it stands for is as old as the world. Two nations go to war. The first care of the belligerents Is to make the world believe that they carry victory in the folds of their respective flags; that large numbers of the enemy's soldiers are killed in every battle while their own loss is slight; that their wounded are almost miraculously healed. Again, two political parties struggle for supremacy. At every election each party boasts of victory. The opposition press, in Its effort to make a defeat appear like victory, often goes to ridiculous extremes. The defeated candi dates themselves put on a sanctimonious look and assume to congratulate themselves on results which are gall and wormwood to their self-love. So strong a factor is "bluff" that should some innocent person admit defeat he would almost be held responsible for the reverses of the party. Nevertheless, in political bat tles, as In others, there are victors and vanquished. It is useless to play the triumphal march in the face of defeat, because it will soon be necessary to change the tune. Thus in little things as In great; in national and Inter national quarrels whose noise tills the world as In private differences; in vast enterprises which involve millions as In petty speculations in everything, in fact, the same method is employed to gain the same end, and alwavs with the same awkwardness and the same unscrupulous- ness. The success of the Instant usually is paid for by a long series of reverses the chimerical advantages which mny bo gjlnv1 n!mot Invariably arc expiated In the real evils that come after. While chance may give a clever and crafty player a momentary advantage, the final outcome generally favors him who really holds the best cards. Here, as In every thing else, "bluff" Is only "bluff," and its resources are soon exhausted. If one were to choose a single word by which to characterize the present age, that word would almost inevit ably be "practical." This is by no means the same as saying that the watchword of the day is materialism. The really practical is seldom wholly materialistic. It includes much that is spiritual, sentimental and idealistic. But "practical" the age certainly Is, and among practical subjects there ai! none more vital than work and wages, savings, and the security of Income in old age. These are essentially ques tions for young men, for modem meth ods of Industry and modern tendencies are making this a young man's nge. Old men find it more and more diffi cult to secure or hold profitable posi tions. Even those who knew that tills is so were startled when one of the great steel companies recently estab lished an age limit of thirty-five years "a dead-line" it is aptly called for the employment of new men. Argu ment is of little avail in matters of this sort; protests are of no use. It is the old men who have to bear the burden, but young men must meet the emergency, and meet It while they lire young by thrift. The probable period of their working life is shortened; therefore they must make It yield greater results, must save more and lay aside more for old age. It is prob able that few young men have con slderea now much they should save in order to moke the future secure. A New York Insurance actuary has lately made an interesting study of the mat ter, and concludes that at least one- sixth of the Income should be set aside for Insurance, If a married man with children Is to make the future of him self and his family secure In ony con tingency. But what Is most to be em phasized Is not so much the need of saving n specific amount or of invest lug it in a specific way, as the neces sity of establishing the habit of thrift In early life. Young men should adopt as a motto to work while it is day and remember that "the night corneth when no man can work." A Bald-llenrted Monarch. Edward VII. Is the first English sov ereign to figure on the coinage as bald headed. It Is very possible that sev eral of his predecessors had Ichs of nature's crown, than his majesty and that when taken to pieces for the night they became almost unrecogniza ble insteod of remaining lu the over- the-some condition of present-day kings nnd emperors. However, their coinage represents these bygone inon archs In caps ond crowns or volumin ous wigs and wreaths or skillfully ar ranged toupees that are very like the genuine thing. Natural Can Plentiful. Contrary to a growing impression that the supply of natural gas Is giv ing out and Is of'small Importance in the industrial development of the na tlon, a report qf the United States Geological Survey shows that the vol ume of natural gas produced In 1003 was 238,7ii0.07,000 cubic feet, with a value of $;i.",815,:t(!(). Indiana was the only gas-producing State In which the amount of natural gas decreased dur ing the year. THE ART OF CRYSTAL GAZING. By Fitzgerald Holloy. When seventy years ago the Oriental scholar, Edward William Bane, published his "Manners and Customs of" the Modern Egyptians" surprise was caused by his account of a seance during which a Mughrebee magician summoned visions in a crystal of people whom tha writer recognized from description. His curiosity regarding this subject had first been roused by hearing from the British consul general that a servant who defrauded him, and of which no suspicion had been en tertained, was described from a vision seen In the crystal, and on being charged with the theft had confessed his crime. Possibly Mr. Bane was unaware that the same means of detection was common in England until "the wisest fool In Christendom," James I., passed laws making crystal gazing a serious and punishable offense. Inducements to hypnosis, which are used in all forms of so-called magical rites, are the monotous repetition of chanted verses, the burning of incense, and the continuous stare at any object. These induced the hypnotic state In Mr. Lane. Possibly the most logical, clear and concise analyses of telepathy will be found in Dr. Hudson's. "Law of Tsychlc Phenomena." Briefly speaking, his theorv. now widely accepted by the scientific world, is that the human mind is dual in its nature; the upper, or objective mind being the means by which we reason and conduct the business of life; while the lower, or subjective mind. Is the storehouse of memory, where every circumstance of life from the dawn of reason Is carefdlly chronicled and remembered, though forgotten by the objective mind. The subjective mind of one Individual is capable of sending messages to the subjective mind of another without the objective mind of either being aware of the fart. 8uch messages are called Intuitions. It is so the subjective mind that flashes the whole panorama of his life upon the dying man. CIVILIZATION PRECEDES GROWTH OF POPULATION. By Prot. 6. Tmrtte. tar from being an Initial cause, a motor of social evolution, the progress of population Is never anything but an effect thereof. In China population has become extremely dense, yet civ ilization Is not progressive in the least. In Nor way population has remained exceedingly sparse, still civilization is most exalted and ever Increas ingly higher. Look at the country of North America, a tribe of redskins dispersed throughout. It does not progress; it remains a hereditary huntress and savage. On the same territory later immigrants from Europe commenced to live in a state of dispersion, as in the far West to-day. Nothing serves to hinder these giants in enriching them selves and in civilizing themselves. Cities, the foundations for density of population, did not come until afterward and as a neeessnry consequence of the mental state of the scattered population, of its acquirements, of its laws, of Its institutions imported from Europe. At the present day the United States Is one of the nations of the world where density of population Is the feeblest and it is one of the highest places in the scale of civilization. What happens when a savage or barbarous tribe, such as still Inhabits the Caucasus districts of Europe, produces more children than it can nourish, because of Its ignorance of agriculture and Industry? is It because of the sole fact of Its multiplicity, its biological expansion continuing every day, or, oftener, the agricultural or industrial progress which permits this ever Increasing number of mouths always to find nourishment? No. The excess of population emigrates, the tribe stagnates, that is all. CONFIDENCE AND FALSE CREDIT. By Andrew F. Hlrschl. Commerce Is necessarily based greatly on credit, and credit on confidence; even cash trans actions require confidence in the parties who may make warranties connected therewith. The basis of confidence should be substance, not shadow, actual not artificial. In regard to corporations the State requires actual financial resources as the basis of confi dence; in some States banks, insurance mm. panics, building associations, and perhaps others, must deposit actual cash or collateral with a public custodian for the security of the creditors. This is a step in the right direction, though as yet not entirely efficient. Our people are encouraged, indeed exhorted, to follow habits of industry and economy; they deprive themselves of luxuries and even of necessaries throughout earlier life in order to provide at least comfort for their later days, only to find all swept away by misplaced confidence and an obso lete jurisprudence. The ensuing disappointment, bitterness and despair pervert every sentiment, and thrift instead of being the handmaid of prosperity becomes the mother of anarchy. Abolish all the misleading attestations as to the amount of capital of the corporation, the million of dollars on which It is organized and the many more millions authorized; stop deluding and robbing the public with these falsehoods, and let the act of incorporating consist merely of a public declaration that the Incorporators expect the business to continue, no matter who dies, and that they do not expect to pay any of its debts themselves, but that the obligation must be met from the assets of the concern and not other wise. Some such system would tend to Invoke confidence only where it is deserved. DOOM OF AFGHAN SPIES. Offenders Are Blown to Pieces by the bherpur Midday Gun. Among Afghans one person in par ticular is held in abhorrence, and that is a spy of their own people; and' such, when found out. receives sudden and summary justice. On a low fiat hill near the Slierpur cantonments is a large old-fashioned gun which for many years has boomed forth the hour of midday, and on some occasions it person n certain amount of satisfac tion, inasmuch as it. is swift. A spy who crosses the frontier into Afghanistan carries his life in his hand, and from that time until he re turns nothing is known of him. Should he never return, who con say what his fate has been whether killed by the hill people when traveling through the country (for they are not kind to stran gers) or imprisoned in some obscure town until he dies, or whether tortured BLOWING AN OFFENDER FROM THE SIIERPUR GUN. Particulars Demanded. Blonde Girl I want some rice; let me see, bow much do I want? Green Grocer Wedding or pudding Youkers Statesman. also tolls the passing of some poor wretch; for such people as spies are tied up against the muzzle of the gun and at the same time are blown to atoms. In that country there are va rious ways of executing people, but for the punishment of crimes intend ed to strike terror Into the hearts of others, blowing from a gun Is resorted to; and in view of other methods of execution in vogue there, it Is one which ought to occasion a condemned to make confession and then killed in the capital? Count Bonl's Palace. The house that Count Bonl do Cas tellane built in the Avenue du Bols de Boulogne, Paris, Is once more the sen sation of the hour. Since Its outer walls, forming an almost exact copy of the Grand Trianon palace at Ver sailles, were first displayed to an ad miring public, a few years ago, It had ceased to be much talked about. Now Count Boni de Castellane and the countess, nee Could, are astonishing Paris again by the splendor of Its fit ting up. After a lull of some years work has been resumed in the palace, and again Versailles is being copied. The grand drawing room is being dec orated in exact imitation of the Salon d'Hercule in the palace of Louis XIV. The walls are to be almost entirely of white, pink and saffron yellow marble, with "dashes of emerald, ruby and opal," whatever those may be." The painted ceiling of the Hercules room Is being exactly copied. The salon Is 37 by 40 feet. There will be no cur tains to the immense windows. In the evening gigantic mirrors, hidden In the woodwork, will be slid out In front of the panes, and will completely con ceal them. The flooring is also to be an accurate copy of that of the Salon d'Hercule. In this respect, however, difficulties are met with. Louis XIV. had each piece of oak, after shaping and polishing, put away In the lofts of Versailles for five years before It was laid down. The result is that not a board has warped by a fraction of an Inch to this day. Such clahsr-te thor oughness Is, It appears, Impossible now. London Telegraph. House Hunting. She You say your brother Is house hunting? Ho Yes. "Funny time of year to be hunting, isn't it?"' "Oh, no; you see, he lives In Kansas, and they had a cyclone come along tho other day and took away his house, and now he's hunting for it." You kers Statesman. house "Of course I don't want to ho fool ish, like most mothers, nnd brag about my baby's smartness," a mother will say, and then she will go on and tell how smart It Is as long as tho hearer will stay and listen. The breath of suspicion is often fla vored with cloves