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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1905)
case In question one man's theory la as good as another's. Professor Meteh nikofTa "proofs" to the contrary not withstanding. If they really were proofs nobody could question them; as it is, a majority of people do' question them. . P. ABA m. TCUDO ORJaCON unsu Kim leku Still, It la not the first time that France bai yielded to Germany. Men are compelled to Invent all kinds of tools because they have no hairpins with which to do things. Mrs. Eddy says that poverty Is not a disease. What she means Is that In tier case It was not incurable. If Norway had known the thing could be done so easily it would have severed Its connection long ago. When the Hawaiian planters begin fighting Claus Spreckels in California there will be plenty of cane raised. It is reassuring, however, to learn that BJornstJerne BJornson cjordlally lndjorses the new mjovement of his cjountrymen. "Is proposing a lost art?" asks the Kansas City Star. The record of breach of promise cases furnishes a negative answer. Conan Doyle was fined recently for fast autoinobillng. This is the first chance Scotland Yard has ever had to get back at hlin. A Berlin woman who was a profes sional faster committed suicide by shooting. It's a mystery why she didn't starve herself to death. A Japanese cadet has Just been ad mitted to the Naval Academy at Ann apolis. It might not be a bad idea now to send an American cadet to Japan. It sometimes happens that when a man comes home about 2 a. m. and finds his wife waiting for him at the bead of the stairs he imagines he is a bigamist Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the life of the late Gen. Gomez Is the fact that be lived almost seven years since the close of the war with out being the principal of an Investigation. A French engineer thinks a railway could be built around the earth, in cluding a tunnel under Bering strait, for $250,000,000. Probably a few more thinks might cause him to alter his figures a little. One thing for which the public has to be thankful Is that it has been spared the details of the Bowen Loomls controversy. And over u measly little old $0,000 check. Hardly worth the trouble of investigating. Luther Burbank, the Santa Rosa, Cal., plant wizard, Is said now to have achieved the feat of growing chestnuts on trees only eighteen months old. Chauncey Depew ought to get a few of Mr. Burbank's rapid action chest nut trees for his conservatory. Somebody has at last discovered that Byron was a plagiarist Six lines scat tered through some of his unknown poems are very similar to lines that were written by Burns, Scott and Tickell. This discovery may probably be listed as another triumph of the twentieth century. The beautifully Illustrated publlca tlons devoted to "country life" might have an Important effect in keeping the boys on the farm If the boys ould be made to see any connection between their own experiences and the sort of country life that Is ex plotted in the pictures. We want popular verbs for several operations Introduced by modern science. The X-rays, the Plnsen treatment for lupus, the operations of radium for cancer, and what not what ore the words for these? A man Is guillotined or hanged; his leg amputated; he is trepanned. What Is It when he ta rayed, Flnsened, rs dlumed? We still want a wireless word. What Is the synonym for tele phone when one speaks over the In strument to which a phonograph Is attached? And have we finally agreed that tomotor is the verb to travel by automobile? Professor Elle Metchnlkoff, a pro fessor in the Pasteur Institute at Paris, who Is described as "one of the fore- mostf scientists In the world," has come forward with what he believes to be fresh proofs of man's blood re lationship to the anthropoid ape. In cidentally be calmly brushes aside all religion with the statement that It in volves the Idea of the supernatural origin of man and Is consequently ab surd. Of course, this should settle the whole question, but probably It will not There can be no possible Objec tion to a man's believing that he la descended from an ape, but there ahould be no objection to another loan's holding the contrary, and In the When Governor General Trepoff was appointed by the Czar virtual dic tator of Russia, the first thing be did to give the people a taste of his power was to summon additional bodies of Cossacks to St Petersburg to put down public meetings and to shoot down persons who dared to particP pate in public processions. His next step was to call a meeting of the heads of the universities and colleges and to advise them to raise the tuition fees to 800 rubles to prevent tha matriculation of poor students. A tyrant's advice is as good as a high wayman's eonimand, and It Is needless to relate that Trepoff was obeyed by the pedagogues. TrepofTs reason was: "The spread of education among the people is dangerous to the govern ment" In that one sentence is con fessed the whole story of the weak ness and rottenness of the Russian government. Ever since nail was first driven or wheelbarrow first mended the handy man has been praised. But the handy woman has been taken for granted, and her accomplishments have been so little celebrated that the woman of the future Is In danger of despising and neglecting them. It would be a broken, torn, shiftless, comfortless world In which there was no Jill of all trades. What does Jill do? First, she is a skilful mender. The ugliest three-cornered rent Is concealed by her clever stitches. She has even been known to add an embroidered vine to a skirt to assuage the grief of the child who had torn her best frock. On occasion, Jill can solder a hole in a coffee pot or set a broken nane of glass. She Is passed mistress In the repair of disabled toys, and la nurse and doctor for sick cats and dogs. Then what wonders she can work with a hairpin! She can lock bureau drawers and unlock trunks with that useful instrument. She can extract a bean from the baby's ear and a reed from a cabinet organ with the same device. Jill is a treasure in the kitch en, for she can make a toothsome something out of nothing. While the others are talking about what Is not to be had for the unexpected guests, she hos killed a hen and has it half picked. Her "minute pudding" is as good as her "hurry-up cake." When sue is ten miles from a lemon, she knows how to make an iced coffee which Is a fair substitute for nectar. Jill may pretend not to play the piano, but everybody begs for her accom paniments. She does not daw, but her sketches keep restless children happy on a' rainy day. Although she declares she has not a single accomplishment, there are people who would rather hear her read aloud than hear any one else sing. She Is not a trained nurse, but when she enters a sickroom she seems to belong there, and if Death comes, she knows with what quiet state he should be greeted. From the cradle to the grave Jill is the right woman in the right place, and the world cannot spare her. A husband Is ashamed to be af fectlonate In public; a woman not to be. A girl will alwoys resist flirting It there are no men or boys anywhere around. In a peek-a-boo shirt waist some women remind one of a man falling out of a balloon. When a man Is young he wants to marry and love, and money doesn't count; when he Is married he wants money, and nothing else counts. New York Press. Either the man who runs an auto mobile has a lot of money or he .owes a lot. The fun of pretendlug to like opera more than vaudeville Is that our friends pretend to believe us. It's queer how a woman will believe everything in a historical novel and doubt an encyclopedia. A nice thing about marrying money is everybody envies you so much more than you do yourself. A girl's idea of a romance Is a man who wears a woman'a ring on his finger and looks sadly at it A man is more modest than the av erage woman, but she acts more so. When a man asks a girl If she likes strawberries she is sure he la making love to her. It la queer that the less clothes a woman has on to be In full dreas tha mora they cost her. mm WOMAN AND HER PLACE, By JulM V. Stroma. I cannot for the life of me aee why women ahould desire to be Independent or ahould wish to be man's equal. Life la robbed of half its charma when men recognize a woman on terms of equality. There la a fine excitement when one first takes a hand at man's work. A thrill of comradeship a sense of strength and purpose In life but it hurtfl riranrifnllv whan thA ffmdi pnmpl 3 for a woman to feel the old womanish 4Uia&T v. HiJLA.ibS sense of weakness the desire for pro tection and gallantry, and finds that the men have taken her at her word and grown to regard her as self-sufficient. The truth Is, life has no new things to offer us, though we prate of woman's emancipation. No matter what fool ish women, Intoxicated with a breath of false freedom, may tell you, woman is essentially wife, homekeeper, another. Do not for a moment believe that aa such she evinces weakness in character. One of the weakest female characters I have ever known was a woman a right a woman. She addressed audiences with perfect ease and had a way of meeting men upon their own ground that infuriated the men and made all the women feel themselves auddenly disgracefully feminine. Our husbands, In the palmy daya of this lady (that Is, In the days when she was palming herself off aa a auperlor person while the rest of us were quietly attending to our own business), used to read the law to us and tell us what they would do if we dared to go about speechifying and leaving our families to starve. We tried to hold up for her, but we finally gave It up, for we all really liked to keep house and take care of our children, and besides, somebody has got to stay at home and keep things going, and we decided that If any member of the family was to fool with politics and split the air with eloquence, rant around about reforms and otherwise dis tinguish himself, it had best be our husband. I have a horror of women in public life. It la a great mistake to suppose that going about making speeches, or ganizing societies, circulating petitions and identifying one self with "movements" indicates strength of character. The strong woman is the woman who lovea some reason ably good man with all her heart and asks no better fate than to rear his children and keep his home. Life means more to her than to any other living creature, if ahe is awake and aware of the divine privileges of mere living. A INCREASING CHANCES FOR SUCCESS. By Seorgo F. Tyron: Losing one's Job la often a blessing in disguise. My advice to the young man who loses his Job la to stay out of a Job permanently. If your em ployer discharges you don't try to hire yourself to anybody else, unless it be to a rich trust or great company of one of another kind. Get into the service of a big company, or go into business for yourself even though it be selling buttons or shoe strings. I knew a young man in Chicago whose employer "fired" him for sheer Incompetence. The poor fellow tried to get work and failed utterly. Then he got an option on a corner lot, sold the option at a profit of $20,000, and is now a leading real estate man. Another real estate man, who is worth $2,000,000, was launched on the road to success by being practically kicked out of the office of another real estate man. He starved for two yeara, but finally things began to clear up. To-day he could buy out his old employer four times over. The same thing la true of several of the moat successful insurance agents in this old town. If you are not an expert In some line, get back to the soil and begin selling peanuta or working on com mission. On the contrary, If you can secure a position with aome really big concern, take it, tend to your business, ba generous with your time, do overwork, never kick, act aa If the business were your own, plug steadily and allently, and you'll win. . Big companiea want that kind of a man, even If he isn't brilliant and it is only a question of time when your reward will come in a position of responsibility and trust with correspondingly good salary. Everybody cannot be a millionaire; everybody cannot ba a high aalaried employe; everybody cannot be a successful retailer. It la a sad fact that aomebody must do the work of the laborer. The majority of the people must work hard for small pay. But in the present system of Industry the grade method la the rule. Some men go to the top and get rich; aome atay at the bottom and remain comparative ly poor. But in the bottom ranks there are a few who want to climb, and It is to that kind of young men that this philosophy la addressed. KLIHU ROOT. THE UNITED STATES' FIAT IS LAW. Br tliaa Hoot. Socrotarr of Stmt. The questions which are liable to arise under the assertion of the Mon roe doctrine will not come by a frontal attack, by any broad and unqualified denial of our right to maintain that doctrine as a rule of national safe ty. In the long process of years I think we can safely say that there baa been gradually accumulated such a weight of ent upon the part of for eign natlona to our right to assert and maintain this doctrine that It is no longer open to ques tion. But the way in which cause of war may arise will be, If at all, by the conflict of rights the existence of rights on the part of foreign powers against American re publics and the result of the enforcement of those rights of foreign powers against the American republics coming In conflict with this doctrine which we assert for our own safety and preservation. AH sovereignty in thla world la held upon the condition of performing the dutlea of aoverelgnty; that the citizen of other powera are protected within the territory; that the rules of international law are observed; that national obli gations are faithfully kept And while we assert that we are entitled to say that no foreign power shall undertake to control an American republic, that no foreign power shall take possession, with or without the will of an Ameri can people, of their territory, that assertion is Justified only upon the same conditions. We don't undertake to say that the republics of Central and South America are to be relieved from their Interna tional obligations. We don't undertake to say that the powera of Europe ahall not enforce their rights against these members of the sisterhood of nations. It is only when the enforcement of those rights comes to the point of taking possession of the territory of any American people that we say that It Is Inconsistent with the peace and safety of the United States. And we cannot say It with Justice unless we also say that the American re publics are themselves to be Just. The United States la sovereign to-day on this continent and Its fiat Is law. SOCIETY WOMEN "GREATEST MODERN PEST." Br Hlght Ker. M. J. O'Connor. i If asked to give advice as to the most lmpor JJ tant atep in your preparation for the ardent and f;i I exacting duties of life, I would say. first, that fj I every woman, no matter what her wealth or posl K I tlon in society, ahould at least for a time become I self-supporting in some field of modern useful- JL I ness; enouid make her own living Independently. ' Above all things, I would warn you against be coming that greatest of modern pests, the idle society woman, who devotes her time to the performance of what she calls social duties or following after social pleasures. j fllH HELPLESS BRBY. j A helpless baby I Tha la what a wife who loves her husband usually succeeds in making of him a great big, overgrown, brawl ing baby, writes Virginia Lee. While she doesn't actually trot him on her knee she trots her knees after him from the moment he enters the house until the moment he leaves. She trots his collar out for him. All bosh. If she keeps it where it belongs and teaches him where it Is kept, she is doing him a greater kindness than by searching for it and laying It In his handa. Then, too, she delights In lay ing out hla clean ahlrt. Bosh again. He did those things for himself before ha was married. It Is aa easy to hang op. a towel after using It aa It la to throw it over the foot of the bed or across a chalrback. Yet loving wives fondly believe that it la their duty to chase after that towel and bang It up. They fold up newspapers for men who are perfectly able to fold their own. Do yon set away your husband's boots and shoes? Do you fold up his ties and lay them neatly in bia burean drawer? Do you trot, trot trot after him? If he expresses a desire for any thing, do you, wife that loves him, hop op and "run and (etch It"? Do 70a? Then stop. It takes a man Just about a week to form the habit of be ing "waited upon." It takes a wife a lifetime to break him of the bablt It la an injustice to the man. If you are called away, how can that poor husband find his clothes? How could he keep the top of the dresser straight and tidy without you there to fold things up and lay them away? How could he, after three days alone, find his way among the old newspapers and boots and shoes that would litter the floor? The woman that boba about here and there and chases forever after her husband and her husband's belongings Is making a helpless baby of him. Of course she thinks he is the fin est, most promising baby ahe has ever aeen. But to others he ia a little over grown for long dresses. His feet are too big and his arms are too long. If he could see himself as others sea him he wouldn't thank even the most de voted of wives for making a helpless idiot of him. It is every man's blessed birthright to grow up. Oh, devoted, loving wife, don't wrap him up In baby clothes. Don't steal hla birthright. Let him be a man a whole, full-grown, Inde pendent man. Give him credit for knowing hla own clean ahlrt v from a mouth organ. If you don't let him taks care of these things for himself, It Is only a question of time before he will set up a holler the moment yon are out of alght Don't tie your husband to a rat tle. Cincinnati Poat Not the Prlotable Kind. . Jeflka But did you assure the edi tor that your poem waa original? Scribbles Oh, yea, and he didn't doubt it at all. Jenks No? What did be say? Scribbles He aald he felt quite cer tain that I had never aeen it in print anywhere. Philadelphia Ledger. TOO MUCH ATHLETICS. TennU and Sprinting Apt to Induce ' Wcnkneaa of the Heart. Prof. James, of the University of Il linois, says that an Investigation of some years has convinced him that much evil has re sulted from college athletics, according to the Boston Globe. College athletes, he finds, bring on by overexertion a number of Ills, of which the worst and most common la weakneas of the heart thnt rtovol. PBOF. JAMES. opng wUn matur, lty, unflta the victim for continued effi cient effort In business, and eventually carries him off before bis time. Sprinting and tennis he believes to be the two sports which work the most havoc with the heart. Oliver Wendell Holmes said that a condition which often promoted long life wos prudently poor health at an early age. He meant by this that a man, like President Roosevelt we might say in our own time, who In hjs youth had to husband hla strength, and by slow and careful process de velop the good health that he lacked, would be more likely to escaps the dangers of overexertion, in which the careless giant waa tempted to Indulge Still, given strength and good health In the beginning, moderate exercise of one'a powera cannot fall to be a source of renewed strength aa well aa of healthful enjoyment Home for the Unemployed. Berlin has erected a huge building resembling a factory, where the unem ployed whole families are received and provided for. But no one must take advantage of thla hospitality mora than five times in three months.