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
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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
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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.
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THAT HAS BEEN RESTORED.