Lincoln County leader., April 21, 1905, Image 2

LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
Ctt AS. F. ADA E. SOULE. Pabt.
TOLEDO OREGON
Heaven will be a sad place for some
(oik; there will be nothing left to kick
bout.
Some of these days Dr. Wiley should
Uvestigate the pure Vermont maple
yrup of commerce.
Ttie Nan Patterson case has been
dramatized by Clyde Fitch. Nan seems
to hare overlooked a bet in not copy
righting herself.
The Mormon Church makes the pro
ceedings of the other secret societies
teem as public as the free perform
ance in front of the sideshow.
If, as Dr. Krauskopf says, "religion
Is en investment" the man who con
tributes a penny a Sunday has about
as much religion as he pays for.
Scientists assert that women think
quicker than men. But some men
haven't a very high opinion of the
quality of thought they turn out
Secretary Taft says there are many
business opportunities for Americans
In the Philippines. The undertaking
business ought to be good in the Moro
country.
Tic Sultan of Turkey !s tryirss
borrow money from German bankers,
lie must think the Germans have
been too busy to read about Cassie
Chadwick.
A Chicago man is supporting his
nineteen children and their mother on
an Income of ?9 a week. When it
comes to expert financiering there is
something worthy of study.
"How to Make Money," a perlodl
cal whose name indicated its purpose,
baa died for lack of nourishment. Its
publishers, of course, failed to tell
What they evidently didn't know.
A woman killed her husband and
refuses to tell why. This should be
a rebuke to the idly curious. A wom
an should not be pressed for the mo
tive of every little domestic incident.
A California heiress of forty has
married a bell boy of twenty-five. Of
course it is a great scandal, but if their
ages and positions bad been reversed
H would only have been a nappy romance.
Mme. Schumann-IIelnk has renounc
ed her allegiance to the German em
peror and become an American. If
William Waldorf Astor hears about it
he will think the lady must be un
balanced mentally.
A Minnesota congregation has asked
tta pastor to resign because he owns
a fast horse, while a New York clergy
man has had trouble with his flock
for riding to church in an automobile.
Clerical brother, where do you gel
off?
A scientist figures that the earth
quakes of seven years exerted a force
of 75.000,000 horse power. It is Btrange
that no promoter has started an earth
quake syndicate In the motor line, cap
italized at $1 per horse power. It
would be as substantial as gome of the
other trusts.
A "seventh son of a seventh son'
has been arrested in New York for
practicing medicine without a license.
Evidently he overlooked the fact that
It is necessary even for the seventh
on of a seventh son to get Incorpor
ated In New Jersey before he can safe
ly snap bis finger at the .law.
How rapidly the South Is growing Is
Interestingly shown by some of tiie
missionary work which Southern rail
roHds are doing In bringing settlers
Into territory which needs them. The
egent of one road lately remarked that
he had on hand thirty-five thousand
negotiations in a more or less com
pleted state, ranging all the way from
the search for a "home acre" to loca
tions for great Industrial plants.
Secretary Taft maintains that a mil
lion dollars can be spent more profit
ably in building rifle galleries In the
principal cities of the country, for the
purpose of making the young men of
the country expert marksmen, than In
Setting the regular army and the mili
tia together in field manoeuvers. The
military authorities would like to have
clubs of marktmeu organized through
out the country to use the proposed
rifle galleries. This policy lg in jnP
with the President's belief that In war
the shot that hits is the only one that
counts.
Because it Is quick the telephone Is
peculiarly adapted to the needs and
temperament of the American people
nd though now finding general em
ployment abroad. It has reached Its
highest development In the country
which gave it birth. Long distance
conversations ceased years ago to be
novelty and are now a necessity of
everyday business and social life. In
few minutes' talk by 'phone matters
can now be arranged which would re
quire hours for settlement by tele
graph, and days If the malls had to be
employed. The 'phone Is perhaps the
truest emblem of this swiftly living
age.
How to live long and enjoy life Is a
problem of perennial Interest Many
of the alleged solutions are delusive
because they Ignore one or the other
half of the problem. They either aim
at longevity at the expense of joy or
secure joy at the cost of longevity.
Plenty of exercise Is generally advised.
but there are hardened sinners who
will take any risk rather than submit
to the accessible forms of exercise. A
severe and ascetic regimen is another
favorite suggestion which to multi
tudes seems "a remedy worse than the
disease." But Drs. Duke and Hol
lander, nerve specialists of London,
have just advanced or emphasized
a theory which should command an
easy and phenomenal success. Do you
wish to preserve youth and at the
same time assure yourself the maxi
mum of happiness and the minimum
of privation and routine? If so, take
an immense amount of mental exer
cise. The authorities named say that
the average agricultural laborer In
England is threatened with softening
of the brain or mental paralysis at the
comparatively early age of Co or 70,
simply because he does not use his
mind. Doing little thinking, he gives
the blood no chance to circulate
through the brain, and mental decay
results. On the other hand, Judges
and statesmen who constantly employ
their Intellectual faculties live to a
great age and do not lose their keen
interest in the activities of existence to
the very end. We naturally think of
men like Humboldt, Gladstone, Spen
cer and of many aged scientists and
public men still living and in harness,
nnd find abundant confirmation of the
theory in question. And the best fea
ture of the theory Is that the means
prescribed are not only within the
reach of all, not excepting the worst
paid of agricultural laborers, but, in
addition, are so agreeable and delight
ful that they may be resorted to for
their own sake. Mental exercise In
this day and generation need not In
volve the least drudgery to the adult
With excellent newspapers, full of dis
cussions of intricate problems of po
litical, economic, religious and social
life, with periodicals' galore, with
cheap editions of Immortal masters
like Milton, Shakespeace, and scores of
other poets, novelists, essayists,
dramatists and philosophers, and with
free and traveling libraries, need any
man forego the stimulation, exhilara
tion and pleasure of mental activity?
Experts who tell us not to worry are
Indulging in counsel of perfection, but
when they tell us to read great books,
think of lofty and noble things and
exercise our mental faculties they
point to the most effectual method of
making our troubles seem small and
ephemeral and reducing worry to the
minimum.
o THE IX ii4JLr IL
Gambling at bridge by women goes
on extensively in both private houses
and public hotels. Dinners are hur
ried through in order that the party
may the sooner engage In gambling, i
and some of the women are noted as
the sharpest and most grasping of
gamblers. Gambling made fashion
able among women is a rather serious
matter. It is bad enough among men,
but when the mania extends to. women,
who are held tighter in its grasp, the
moralist has special reason to fear the
consequences. Probably there has
never been a time when the vogue of
gambling ationg women of fashion
able society was wider than It Is now,
and It is not unreasonable to suppose
that it will Increase. Luxury palls and
new varieties of stimulation are sought.
The devil finds mischief still for idle
hands to do.
A
CHINA'S CREAL LOVE OF PEACE.
By Sir CHentung Llmn'g-Ceeng.
For 2,000 years China has not swerved an
iota from steadily pursuing a consistent policy of
peace. This may be put down to the fact that
all the men who have played a prominent part
in Chinese affairs have invariably been true fol
lowers of Confucius. The result is that in China
the saying, "the pen Is mightier than the sword,"
Is not a high sounding boast, but en active prin
ciple of government It is the scholar that is
to-uay the ruler of the empire. The soldier holds a lower
place. This subordination of the fighter to the thinker
is recognized throughout the length and breadth of the
land.
It may be urged that Chinese people have brought much
unnecessary suffering Upon themselves by their firm adher
ence to the principles of peace. It is true they have left
their country practically exposed to foreign Invasion. They
maintain no effective army; they have no battleships. But
China's strength does not lie so near the surface. Perhaps
the severest crisis which the nation has gone through was
in the thirteenth century, when the Mongols under Genghis
Khan, after carrying fire and sword into the heart of Eu
rope, swept everything before them in China. From this
staggering blow it recovered with astonishing rapidity.
Strange as it may seem, the enlightened opinion of the
world is steadily coining around to the position 'taken by
China with respect to militarism. With the view of re
ducing the possibility of war as much as possible, arbi
tration Is the method now best recommended for the settle
ment of interna uonal rispuies. This is a alep lu the rlBM
direction. But as long as nations are armed to the teeth
there Is always a strong temptation to test the effectiveness
of the weapons they possess.
As long as there Is powder In the magazines there is
always danger of an explosion from a flying spark. The
day, however, seems to be still far distant when the na
tions of the earth will agree to a general disarmament
But until this consummation Is reached the peace of the
world can never be absolutely secured.
THE FASHIONABLE GIRL AS A WIFE.
By Hrs. Prank Leetle.
If a fashionable girl marries poor man she
has a great deal both to learn, and to unlearn,
and her capacity for these two lessons will be the
measure of her ability to become a good wife.
But suppose such a girl marries a rich man?
We all know, especially in this country, that
money alone will not make a comfortable home;
it will hire servants, sometimes at tremendous
wages, but the air of this free country is fatal to
servitude, and tiie man or maid who while at home in
the old country was the very Incarnation of obedience, re
spectfulness and content only requires a few months in
one of our cities, with the advantage of reading the papers
before they reach the hands of the family and of listening
to the lessons of their compatriots who have been here a
little longer, before imbibing the principles of liberty and
equality to such an extent that unless the beads of the
house are well able to hold their own position they speedily
lose it and become the servants rather than the rulers.
Our society girl Is not by position and education fitted to
become the wife either of a poor man or of a rich one.
Is she, then, never to be a successful wife? Are both poor
men and rich men warned off from trying to appropriate
her delicate loveliness and dainty grace to the embellish
ment of that home for which every man longs in his Inmost
heart?
Nay, the case Is not quite as bad as this for our dear
society rosebuds and half opened blossoms. There Is a
teacher who can in quite a short course of most delightful
lessons teach the most Inexperienced girl, whether she
be city bred and luxurious or whether she be country bred
and unsophisticated, to lay aside all her previous habits
and to acquire a complete new set to take up the most
tedious and distasteful tasks and find them charming, to
No Place for Moderu Legal Lights.
Many unkind things are said and
printed about members of the legal
profession, only a few of which are deserved.
"Billy" Saunders Is a natural born
wit He is in his eightieth year, liv
ing In New York, and is still working
at bis trade, painting. On a recent
occasion "Billy" and one or two of
his mates were beautifying a lawyer's
office. The younger partner, thinking
to take a "rise" out of 'CRilly." said:
"I say, 'Billy,' did you ever know
of a painter going to heaven?"
"Yes," said "Billy," "I knew of one
once."
.'.nd do you think he stayed there?"
"Well, I did hear that they tried to
put him out"
"And did they succeed?"
"No. According to the latest ac
counts, they had not succeeded."
"Why, how was that?"
"Well, sonny, it was this way. They
couldn't find a lawyer In the place to
draw up the papers."
like Dbe things she supposed she should abhor and to grow
careless of what had been her very breath of life.
His terms are high, to be sure, this wonderful teacher
of ours. He demands even more than Sbylock with his
pound of flesh, for he la not satisfied with less than the
whole being of his pupil her heart, her brain, her hands,
her feet, her will and her obedience in fact, all that make
her herself.
The teacher's name is Love dear, old, yet ever young.
Dan Cupid, who has been at work among us from the
day when this weary old world was as fresh and young
as the debutante of yesterday.
A
THE UNIVERSAL fTY OF STOCK GAMBLING.
By Teomet P. Peter:
Don't think that speculating In Wall street Is
not widespread. It is almost universal. I will
venture to ay that few have kept out of the
market Wherever the dally paper goes, wher
ever the telegraph or the telephone reaches, you
will find the broker's office, with the blackboard
and its mystic figures and Its ostensible connec
tions with a floor firm. The town may be of only
2,000 population, still it is very apt to have at
least one broker. The poet was wont to sing of the sim
plicity of the farmer. The artist was wont to picture him
at night, after his chores were done, sitting about the stove
In the crossroads store, talking of the crops and of subject
usually as old as the Civil War. But that is not the farmer
of to-day. Now, when his chores are done, he puts on his
tore dorti RTvl rifle over to th vlU( nl-ntlon and gt
his evening paper and turns at once to the stock page,
or he calls up his broker on the telephone and asks to be
Informed how Amalgamated Copper closed to-day or what
the price of wheat was at Chicago. He Is not the simple
rustic he could once have been called. He Is the business
man, deep In the gambling called speculation. Into all
walks of life has this gambling gone.
I have an Intimate friend, once very well off, now work
ing hard for a small pittance and his family greatly re
duced In circumstances. Speculation did it. I know a
barber, once prosperous, now living on his brother's farm.
He went into Steel common when It was paying 12 per
cent upon the Investment. No more dividends were de
clared after he bought He lost about $800 and his little
business was sacrificed. I know a widow whose earnings
have gone the same way. The great gambling fever has
burned into these homes and left only the bare wall
standing.
A
THE EVIL OF EXTRAVAGANCE TO DAY.
By the Duchess of Somerset.
Luxury and selfishness are what we suffer
from; we want higher Ideals in life; men lack
moral responsibility and a graver sense of duty;
they mistake mistiness for wisdom and are full
of false reasonings.
To-day the expenditure and extravagance In
dress is boundless, clothes suitable to their age
and purse never enter Into the consideration of
many. Do they look any the better decked out
like paroquets in garments which neither suit nor profit
them? There Is effort and anxiety everywhere, and this
does not bring happiness or contentment
Dress suitably to your age, to your walk in life .and,
above all, suitably to your purse. The tendency Is to waste
too much money which might be employed to greater ad
vantage In other ways. I said to a young girl the other
day, it matters more nowadays what you have on your
head than what you have in your head.
The remedy for failure lies with ourselves if we have
the courage to face it; the standard of daily life must be
raised, men must think not only of themselves, they must
strive In the spirit of the "Great Master,' and work while
it is day example Is better than precept; we must realize
each and every one the discipline of dally toll, daily sympa
thy, dally prayerfulness.
OOM PAUL'S GRAVE.
By the Ride of HU Wife He Bleeps in
the Cemetery at Pretoria.
Clasped to the breast of the land he
loved and for whose freedom he vain
ly struggled, Paul Kruger, the beloved
of his people and one of the virile
forces of his time, sleeps to-day by
the side of his wife in the cemetery
at Pretoria. Denied the privilege of
returning to South Africa after the
The brave old man had struggled hard
to make the. land a white man's land
and his success was undeniable until
the English coveted his republic. And
then came the dreadful war, with Its
price that staggered humanity. That
war, England proclaimed to the world,
was fought In the interests of ad
vanced civilization. Yet to-day the
labor of South Africa Is not white,
nor is It free. It Is not even black.
OOM PAUL'S LAST RESTING PLACE.
Kthnological Heresy.
No ethnological heresy Is wider
ftpread among the English-speaking
than that tiie WjOO.OOO or so citizens
of the United States are Anglo-Saxon.
war which desolated Its fairest fields,
It was not given him to die among
the scenes of bis labors; but with
death, his exile was ended and the
"lion of South Africa" was borne to
the land of his struggles, his ambi
tions and bis hopes, to find his final
resting place.
It was a had home-coming to those
who regarded Oom Paul as the leader
of their race rendered even more tad
by the present aspect of South Africa.
Coolies have- been imported from
China to work the mines and serve
the capitalistic class, which has no in
terest in South Africa beyond the
wealth of its nVnes. They have dis
placed the blacks, Indigenous to the
soil, and the whites, who hoped to
build up a Caucasian civilization In
South Africa, and they themselves,
mere prisoners In compounds, with
every shred of liberty gone except the
right of quitting work when their con
tracts expire, are slaves in everything
but name.
But Oom Foul is at rest, ne heeds
not now. The iron entered his soul
when his beloved republic collapsed In
ruin. By the side of his wife he sleeps
and distant Is the day when his
name shall be forgotten or his sturdy
virtues cease to influence the follow
ers of the "lost cause." Utlca Globe.
Weeping at u Wedding,
A Chinese marrlago Is all ceremony
no talk, no levity and much crying.
The solemnity of a funeral prevails.
After the exchange of presents the
bride Is dressed with much care in a
red gown, brocade or silk, If she can
get it; her eyelashes are painted a
deep black and she wears a heavy red
veil attached to a scarlet headdress
from which imitation pearls nre pen
dant over the forehead. A feast is
spread upon a table, to which the
blushing bride is led by flve of nor
best female friends. They are seated
at the table, but no one ents. The ut
most silence prevails, when finally
the mother leads off In n cry, the
maids follow and the bride echoes iu
the chorus. Then all the bridesmaids
leave the table, and the disconsolate
mother takes a seat beside the chair
of state where the bride sits. The
bridegroom now enters, with four of
his best men. The men pick up the
throne on which the bride sits and,
preceded by the bridegroom, form in
procession and walk around the room
or into an adjoining parlor, signifying
that he is carrying her away to his
own home. The guests then throw
rice at the happy couple a custom we
have borrowed from the heathen.
Yet We Are Matoblesa.
Some 4,000,000 feet of pine lumber
Is made Into matches in this country
alone each year.
When crankiness renders a man hap
py ha cares not who calls him a crank.