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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1905)
URCQLN COUNT! LEADER CHAS. P. ADA B. SOULB, Pok. TOLEDO OREGON The President Is doing all he can to make "bully" a classic. It la better to be everything to some body than something to everybody. Excessive modesty has kept many a deserving mail's nose to the grind stone. Contentment may be better than riches, but a little of both is more, satisfactory. One of England's women novelists Is abusing the hoopsklrt Probably a fat woman. The Appellate Court has decided that hat trimming Is no art. Family men have always considered it high art. A Kansas man who has returned from Panama says It will take 2(H) years to finish the canal He did well not to wait If the experts want to learn the real speed limit of an automobile they should time It after It has run over end Injured a man. King Edward Is reported to be los ing his tmtu. biill, they luifht be going even if he were a poor, over worked, underpaid laborer, so where's the moral? Dr. Morrill says "the devil's dollar Is worth more than the stingy saint's nickel." No, Dr. Gladden, and Mr, Rockefeller, of course, he didn't mean anything personal. A fashion authority says that women should buy huta to match their hair. But it Is not every wom an who can afford more than four or five hats In a year. As to the use of corncobs in the manufacture of maple sugar, it should be explained that the cobs are mere ly used to furnish the unmistakable and genuine miiple flavor. That New York physician wlio is trying to start a crusade against long dresses may as well give it up. He will have no better success than .the late Mrs. Bloomer had. A woman ' has been granted a di vorce and $400 a month alimony, with permission to remarry without losing the alimony. It will be her own fault If she long remains a widow. E. Benjamin Andrews is afraid the yellow peril will overtake us if the Japanese win. It must be remem bered, however, that E. Benjamin has always had a sharp eye for buga boos. The woman who is to have $400 a mouth alimony, even If she marries again, will probably not have to ad vertise In any of the matrimonial Journals for the purpose of finding a new affinity. A Delaware man has been crippled for life by kneeling often and for long periods at prayer. Let not the skeptics forget that many other peo ple have been crippled for life while engaging In Impious practices. A New York club woman said a few days ago: "Tho worst fate that could bofall a woman, it seems tovme, would be to marry a man of Inferior intel lect" Does the club woman desire to shut up all of the female colleges? Where, for Instance, would one be able to find a man of other than Inferior Intellect as compared with that of a graduate of Vassar, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr or Lucy Cobb? , The dear girl graduates will have to go right along marrying men of inferior Intellect or do without husbands. While we are Inclined to criticise English railroads with much freedom, they have a record In one respect which uur own railroad managers must look upon with respect. The gross earnings of the English roads never showed nn unfavorable fluctuation, us compared with a previous year, of over IVj per cent. With all the talk of poor rail way management, of decadent Indus tries and of the economic evils of war. It Is confusing to And that the commer cial development of Great Britain, measured by her gross railroad trulllc, presents an almost unbroken record of advance. Net earnings, however, have been badly cut Into by the rise In wages and by the higher cost of fuel. One result of tho Russo-Japanese war Is to' restore the bayonet to Its old prominence as a weapon In all armies. uen me ivrag mouoi or rule was adopted for the United States army about fifteen years ago the bayonet wag shortened and so changed In shape that It might be used as an intrench ing tool If desired. But the night fight Ing in Manchuria has repeatedly brought the Russian and Japanese forces into close Quarters, where bayo nets have been used on both sides with tremendous effect. Consequently the army general staff at Washington has determined that the United States bay onet for the new rifle adopted in 191)3 shall be four Inches longer than the Krag bayonet and preparations are al ready under way at the national armo ries to make the change. The average destruction by forest fires in this country is estimated at 125,000,000 or more annually. It Is Impossible to prevent all this waste in some reepects the worst that Are can cause, because it takes years to replace It just as It Is impossible to establish conditions whereby all other forms of property shall be protected against this agent of destruction, but It undoubtedly is possible to enforce a policy or policies to very appreciably reduce the danger and the loss if once the public is brought to realize the gravity of the situation. In Germany and France these experiences are guarded against In large measure, be cause the governments have strict for estry laws, and the forests are well policed and vigilantly cared for. Here the !general government can do little except on Ks own preserves and the work of protection must be left to the States, which as yet do not seem to have risen to a sense of their respon sibilities. American liberality to education of all grades Is the admiration Bud the envy of educational and social observ ers of all other nations. Yet the com plaint is often made by discontented Americans that higher education after all remains here, as elsewhere, a privi lege of wealth and something at which the wage-worker's son has little or no chance. A recent bulletin of the Mas sachusetts Labor Bureau throws Inter esting light upon this complaint It shows that In Harvard, often called "a rich man's college," nearly 10 per cent of the young men and nearly 11 per cent of the young women are the chil dren of people classed by statisticians as wage-workers. In Boston Univers ity, the largest Methodist Institution of New England, over 35 per cent of the students are ttie sons and daughters of wage-workers. The record of Clark University Is even more remarkable. This is devoted entirely to post-graduate and research work that Is, to the kind of study which must wait longest for monetary returns. Yet nearly 27. per cent of Its students are from wage working families. Of course, it may be said that the number of students from wage-earning families is by no means proportionate to the number of such families for higher education pro portionate to their number. Before the gratification can be sought or had' the desire must exist. Of course, all nor mal parents wish for their children easier or more fortunate lives than their own. But the Ideals of parents differ according to what their own lives have been. The father who has gone from the common school to work with out repining, and who has won what he deems success. Is apt to think that higher education Is a useless If not a pernicious luxury. There are always exceptions, but that Is the rule. Charles M. Schwab's objection to higher edu cation for a business career, based on his own success wlthqut It, illustrates the point. Only those parents who have had themselves some touch of higher education who have obtained some Inkling of the joys of knowledge for Its own sake are apt to Inspire their children with real desire for It. That Is the rule whose workings cut down enormously the proportion of wage-working families which feel any deprivation If their children do not get It. If In Massachusetts, where social distinctions originally produced by wealth, whatever their present basis, are more real and binding than in any other American state, so many children of wage-workers are getting higher ed ucation, what must be the conditions elsewhere In States where society has not become anywhere near so firmly 'stratified? The answer to the charge that the poor hoy has no chance of higher education Is the simple fact that wherever he and his really desire It he Is getting it. Breaking; a ltule. One day recently at Washington 8 number of naval otliccrs were discuss ing the traditional rivalry nml ill feel ing that Is often remarked between the "Juekles" and marines. As every one knows, on shipboard the marines are soldier-policemen, a'nd, as such, moke the "Juekles stand round," to the great disgust of the sailors. "I remember of once hearing of one old tar," said Captain Brownson, "who was forever having difficulty with th marines. Finally, contriving to get onfa!rly good terms with one of the hated policemen of the deck, he said: "I wish you'd tell me how to keep out of trouble with you fellers." "That's the easiest question In the world to answer," said. the marine, with a grin. "Just you Juekles remem ber this, that whenever you get to feel ing nice and easy and fine, stop it, for It's a dead sure thing you're busting a rulel GREAT APPIAN WAY. A ROMAN ROAD WHICH ABOUNDS IN ROMANCE, Soldiers and Sluves, Mourner and Pieasiire-seekers, Idler, liuajr Trad er and Lover a, All These Ume Traveled Ita Puved Suri'uce. Some things remain unchanged throughout the ages while others are merely transitory despite an appear ance of the greatest durability. Love and, hate, joy and sorrow, are the same to-day a9 they were when man first discovered he was a creature with powerful emotions. Lie the brook in the poem, they go on forever, regard less of man's coming and going. The things man has built with his bands, on the contrary, no matter how great, have almost invarlubly crumbled to dust with the passing of time, leaving scarcely a trace of their existence. On the plains of Asia Minor, along the valley of the Nile In Egypt, and In other of the older Inhabited parts of the earth, there have at different periods in the remote past sprung Into existence through one cause or an other great cities, each filled with its bustling fhrongs of people Intent on doing the many things that go to make up urban life. To-day, there scarce re mains of these one stone upon another to mark the place of their being. All have perished. Wood and stone, brick and mortar, have fallen into decay; and of the many homes that once shel tered happy families, of the Imposing piles that housed the multifarious branches of trade, and of the magnifi cent structures erected to gratify man's desire for suitable places In which to worship, nothing remains In most Instances except a few half buried fragments. In place of these ALL THAT IS LEFT OF SCORES dead cities of the past there are other and fairer ones thickly dotting the sur face of the earth, but they are all the result of those never-dying emotions constantly spurring man to activity. This constancy of the human emo tions Is a key that unlocks the treas ure house of all romances of the pnst. Because of It the lover of to-day can fully appreciate the hopes and fears that troubled the hearts of oth er lovers In the far distant past. He knows that despite a difference in dress and language and environment they were moved by feelings similar to those that send him a-woolng, and he understands. The soldier, too, when he goes to war to-day, Is actu ated by the same motives that domi nated the minds of those who fought so fiercely of old. Patriotism, hero Ism, hatred of an enemy to the father land all these sentiments are un changed. It is only the outward and material expression of things that proves unstable as time advances. It is because of this ability to fully comprehend the motives prompting hu man activities in the long ago that people of the present age are so strongly Impressed when contemplat ing the ruins of those ancient playes. There Is the Applan way, for In stance. Who can travel along this an cient Roman thoroughfare without a sense of strong heart interest? One really cares little about who built It, so long as the story of what has token place on Its surface remains untold, and yet ony reference to the subject would be Incomplete without n brief mention, at least, of the facts regard ing the road Itself. The Ancient Thoroughfare. This celebrated road, which with its branches connected Rome with all parts of southern Italy, was begun at the Copenu gate in the old Roman wall by Applus Claudius Coecus, in 312, B. C, and was completed as far as Capua, a distance of 125 miles, In 307, B. C. It was subsequently con tinued to Brundusium, In the south eastern part of Italy, and was the main channel of communication be tween the Eternal City and the princi pal port whence sailed the vessels for Greece anc the east It is remark- able for the substantial manner of Its construction and the paved surface, which was made of large and well fitting blocks of black basaltic lava. Quite naturally, since it was the most picturesque of all the approach es to Rome, it soon became a favorite place for those of leisure to walk or drive. This resulted In such a great liking for it that many of the wealthy Romans, at death, made provision for their remains to be placed near this favored spot, -and in time numerous magnificent sepulchres were reared along the road near the city, the most noted of which are those of Calatlnus, the Sciplos, and Caecllla Metella. , After the fall of the Roman empire the Applan way was allowed to care for itself for centuries, and It became unfit for use iri many places. Until about fifty years ago, the greater part of the road beyond the tomb of Cae cllla Metella, or between the 3d and 11th milestones, was hardly distin guishable from the surrounding coun try, excepting by the ruins of the sep ulchres; but excavations in 1850-'53, extending over the Applan way from Its beginning as far as the ancient site of Bovlllae, reopened to travel Its most Interesting part. This work was car ried out under the auspices of the pa pal government. The part of the an cient road that was restored Is called the Via Appia Nova, or In plain En glish, the new Applan road. Oddly enough, too, the modern railway from Rome to Naples crosses this old road near the place where . the workmen ceased their operations. The meeting of St. Peter and the Master on the Arr'an wsy, not fur from the city, is the most important Incident of the many which legend says took place along this road. The story Is that St. Peter, becoming dis couraged by the martyrdom of hun dreds of Christians in Rome, started out to leave the country. He had gone but a little way In bis flight when ; a"" OF SPLENDID MAUSOLEUMS. he met our Savior, who rebuked him. The little church of Domlne Quo Va dls the words used by St. Peter in addressing the Savior on that memor able occasion Is supposed to stand on the spot where the meeting took place. In the center of the church Is a mar ble slab showing a facsimile of the foot-prints of Jesus, the original of which, a block of black basaltic lava, said to be the one on which He stood when talking with St. Peter, is highly treasured in the Basilica of St. Sebas tian. What a trystlng place for lovers this favorite Roman road must have been In the days of Its greatest glory! What sweet nothings or burning words of passion were here murmured Into will ing ears! What clandestine meetings may have taken place In the shadow of these magnificent housings of the dead by .those whose love was op posed! The marble-walled mausoleums along Its way must have echoed the shouts of those haying a friendly trial of speed between the gayly trapped steeds 'drawing . their chariots: words of flattery, too, from those camp-fellows of the great In society. In poli tics, or In war. Jealousies, heart - - 4 PART OF OLD ROMAN ROAD burnings, hatreds, trivial worries and sorrows of gloomiest depths all have swayed their victims here as In every other walk of life. Along this way tramped the Roman legions setting forth to battle, and by It they returned, with trumpet peals of victory drowning the groans of their prisoners. Throngs of - merry people have passed back and forth in Joyous pastime along this favorite re sort of a pleasant afternoon in that time so long ago, and their merriment has been suddenly hushed 'as they drew aside to let pass some grlef strlcken group slowly bearing a loved one to the last resting place of the dead. It Is because of our unchanging emotional nature that such thoughts as these fill the minds of most per sons who travel over the old road, put ting them strangely In touch with the life of the past But the rule does not always hold good. Even the Applan way some times falls to attract, as the recent ex perience of a Roman guide with a party from Chicago will show. The Chicago squad consisting of the parents and two grown-up chil dren was under the leadership of a 204-pound mamma, who fancied she knew a lot about her rights and privi leges as a lady of leisure and lucre. Papa, who had piled up the boodle In ways known only to the pork Inter ests, was merely a convenelnce. Mam ma did all the bargaining. Papa set tled the bills without a murmur, and never had a good time unless he could induce the others to go on while he remained at a hotel for a few days on the plea of being "extremely bil ious, my dear. Stomach way off must be doctored up at once." Poor man! When mamma engaged Fietro to show them the sights of Rome he sug gested a trip over the Via Appla. launching forth In a voluble descrip tion of the many fine ruins of superb tombs to be seen along Its course. "But are there no persons living along this this Wee-ah Ah-pee-ah?" queried mamma, visions of a fine boule vard and crowds of admiring people gazing at herself and Jewels filling her mind as she complacently viewed what she could see of the lavish display of resplendent gems bedecking her am ple figure. "No, no!" hastily exclaimed Pletro, with a deprecatory wave of tne hands and a shrug of the shoulders that would have expressed volumes to any one else. "No, these people been dead one-two t'ousand years, madam; but the tombs-ruins magnlfique ah-h-h!" his eyes were rolling In an ecstacy of delight. "Humph! Dead ones are unappre ciatlve," cut In the practical mamma, with another glance at her jewels. "Never mind this this old graveyard take us around In the cltv." At Last. The mother of the small boy had been trying to Instill within him an Idea of conscience. She described it as a little voice which whispered in side one when he was doing wrong. "I never heard it," said the small boy, cynically, and In the tone of one who shrugs his shoulders. A little later the small boy did some thing he had been told not to do, and was sent to sit on a chair, and order ed not to get off until the powers thut be gave him leave. Ten minutes later he came Into the room where his mother was sitting, jubilant "I've heard It, mother," he exclaim ed. "Heard what?" asked his perplexed parent. "Heard the little voice. It said, 'Sam Smith, you get off that chair' Don't you care what your mother soys!' " Strange Fellow, "Markley's a queer fellow. He bought a couple of tickets from me for an amateur theatrical perform ance." "And be actually used them?" "Not only that, but he says he en joyed himself." New York Times. A hard boiled egg tastes so good at a picnic that every oue decides that the hard boiled egg Is never rated at Its proper merit at home. mm THAT HAS BEEN RESTORED.
