LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
CHAS. P. ADA E. 80ULE. Pubi.
TOLEDO OREGON
Dishonest grocers seldom resort to
legal measures.
It pays to be good; If you get In
the penitentiary It shortens your term.
A Berlin professor says that ham
mering will cure a red nose. The best
cure is to quit'
The President snys that wealth Is
not a bad thing. Who the deuce said
It was? It's the fellow that's got it
King Edward Is wearing blue gog
gles. He probably cannot stand the
"fierce light that beats upon the
throne."
Lawson snys he Is educating the peo
ple. He should remember that some
people never learn unless experience is
their teacher. .
A picture of Emperor William and
his five sons going to church could
do duty any time as a snap shot of a
military parade.
Judge Parker declares that "business
and politics must be divorced." Yes,
and they shouldn't be allowed to mar
ry again within a year.
Chiiuncey M. Depcw says he got
120,000 a year from the Equitable for
giving advice freely. Most people are
willing to do that for nothing.
A Nova Seotian paper says Canada
has enough land to give each Inhabit-'
ant 400 acres. We may add that she
could throw in enough Ice to last till
the millennium. ,
Employes in the Panama zone are to
be supplied with means of healthful
recreation. Heretofore they have had
to amuse themselves with hammers
and typewriters.
An early copy of Shakspeare's "Rich
ard III." was sold In London the other
day for $8,750. Some day people may
be paying fancy prices for Cyrus
Townsend Brady's books.
A South Carolina trust magnate com
mitted suicide after stealing $800,000.
Any ordinary man who had annexed
that amount would think that life was
Just beginning to be worth living.
Chauncey M. Depew is several times
a millionaire; he has a Job that he can
neglect whenever he .wants to without
being docked, and he has a beautiful
young wife. It will be a shameful
waste of time to sit around and pity
Chauncey.
An Interesting new profession has
been devised by a young man In Paris,
who offers his services as "fourteenth'
at dinners and house parties where
the guests unexpectedly prove to num
ber thirteen. He advertises himself as
a brilliant conversationalist, too; but
would not brilliancy be wasted on peo
ple who are so superstitious as to hire
him?
The San Francisco Argonaut says
we have the funny spectacle of five
members of a fraternity at Berkeley
falling to pass their examinations and
the Japanese cook who waited , upon
them graduating with honors." We
fail to see the amusing part of the
Incident. In fact, It Is not even strange.
The Jap meant business. The other
fellows went to college because It Is
fashionable.
According to a student of current
events, It is an encouraging sign of Im
proved business morality that the
words "thief" and "stealing" are being
used these days in place of "defaulter'
and "misappropriating." The trouble
is, however, that the thing for which
these words stand do not become per
ceptibly rarer. Calling a spade a spade
Is all right, but It does not affect the
existence of the spade.
The amount of sleep needed by
boy during the first two or three years
of his school life was discussed at the
conference of the Parents' National
Educational Union held In London a
few weeks ago. A distinguished phy
sician, Dr. T. Dyke Acland, said that
the result of a correspondence with all
the great public schools In England,
forty In number, such as Eton, Rugby
and Westminster, and with four simi
lar schools in America, led him to the
conclusion that from nine to ten hours'
sleep was essential to the healthy
growth of young boys. He added that
only two of the English schools came
up to the highest standard In this re
spect, whereas all four of the Ameri
can schools reached It
Borne time ago, when President Had'
ley of Yale suggested the social boy
cott as an effective means of bringing
men to a sense of their duty, serious
questions were raised as to whether
the author of the suggestion knew
what he was talking about But In
bringing Philadelphia Councllmen to
time in the fight against the gas steal
the social boycott proved the most ef
fective of meusures. One Councilman
agreed to turn away from the machine
only when his wife took to her bed
from the effects of the averted faces
of her neighbors and former friends.
Another saw the light only when his
children came crying from school with
the story that none of the other Chil
dren would play with them or even
speak to them. Another gave In when,
upon requesting that be be allowed to
lead the Memorial day procession oi
his ward, he was told that an honest
man would be given that honor.
Merchants In England and Wales are
happy over the fact that the great re
ligious revlal is causing people to pay
their debts. Here is a substantial good
result of religious enthusiasm which
even the hardest-headed materialist
must acknowledge. Missionary work
In heathen lands makes good customers
for the products of civilization. It has
long been recognized that, In a broad
ay, the dollar In the missionary box
i the best investment the business
man can make. And now the English
and Welsh merchants are learning that
money given In support of revivalists
comes back multiplied many times.
The mystery of some people's financial
Irresponsibility has never been fath
omed. They may be the soul of con
science in every respect but this. Per
haps they never get a dollar's worth
f pny enmnrvi'ty without a firm In
tention to pay for it But somehow
they never do pay for It, and all the
while the thought of not paying for It
is harassing and even shocking to
thein. There Is Heeded an authorita
tive psychological study of the respec
table, well-meaning "deadbeat" Prob
ably no one on earth save a bishop of
the English church would have been
found to object to the revival which
began in Wales and Is spreading In
England on the ground that It is caus
ing people to pay their debts. . The
bishop of Carlisle, in a recent address,
expressed his scorn of this sort of con
version and Intimated that the man
whose moral sense had not already
made him honest was a doubtful acqui
sition, under an emotional Impulse, to
any religious organization. A man, he
said, should be honest up and down
and through and through. A "religion
of emotion and crocodile tears" might
cause the man who was not thus hqn
est'to pay his debts, but it would hard
ly transform him into a person of real
conscience. The idea of the man who
is as religious out" of church as In it
and who never required conversion to
prevent his buying things that he had
no serious Intention of paying for Is at
tractive. There are many such men
Yet it Is easily to be fancied that the
merchants and shopkeepers, of what
ever faith or moral system, are pleased
when they see the revivalists pricking
dulled consciences and causing long
standing accounts to be settled. In
spite of the adverse opinion of the
bishop of Carlisle, the commonly ac
cepted view among level-headed busi
ness men must be that the conversion
which causes "deadbeats" to pay their
debts is a first-rate kind of conversion
The convert who takes time from his
praying to hunt up and square his ac
counts may not stand the highest with
the bishop, but he makes a hit with
all the rest and no doubt a harp al
ready tuned awaits him on high.
Rare Collection of Pendants.
Any collection that Mrs. John R
Drexel undertakes to make is bound
to be worth looking at and the assort
ment of pendants which she has re
cently gathered proves to be no ex
ception, snys the Philadelphia Press.
So beautiful are many of the spec!
mens that there Is often a suspicious
ly greenish glitter in the eyes of her
friends who are privileged to behold
them, which Is not due to the reflec
tion cast by Jade or emeralds, either.
Some of them are plain gold, valuable
for their various chasings, while oth
ers are fashioned as flowers, with pet
als of tinted enamel and Jeweled cen
ters. On one little purple velvet
cushion, lying peacefully side by side,
Is a Japonese figure corved in Jade
and a little design cut in. Ivory which
represents a peasant In sabots pushing
a wheelbarrow filled with little blue
stones. This Mrs. Drexel picked up In
Russia. Pendants are perhaps the
most favored form of Jewelry this sea
son, so this collection, besides being a
delight to look upon, can be put to
practical purposes, providing the wear
ing of such Jewels can .come .within
the meaning of, a practical purpose.
. Criminal Law In China.
If a Chinaman dies while being tried
for murder, the fact of his dying Is
taken as evidence of bis guilt He has
departed, but somebody must suffer,
and his eldest son, If he has one, Is
therefore sent to prison for a year. 11
be has no son, then his father or
brother gets a Hogging. It's all In the
family, and somebody bas to pay for It.
A colored woman weighing three
hundred pounds, was on the streets
to-day with her sleeves rolled up ,to
ber elbow; In the latest style.
THEOTHKK L1XTLE SHIPS.
by key. Donald Sage Haehay.
Text. "And there were also with
him other little ships." Mark 4: 30.
We don't often think of these other
little ships that were beating through
the storm that night on Galilee. We
httve, indeed, thought of the disciples
turning at last lu the panic of despair
to the worn and weary Jesus asleep,
"Master, carest Thou not that we per
ish?". But how many of us have ap
preciated this little touch in Mark's
description, "There were also with
Him other little ships?" Out yonder,
where the mist mantled the tumultu
ous waters like a wraith of death,
there were "other little ships," each
fighting its own way for life. There
was no Christ uboard, to whom, In the
supreme moment of peril they could
turn for help.
When Christ spoke the word of
peace the calm brought buft-ty liut ou'y
to His lmmediute followers; it was
shared also by "the other little ships."
In other words, what the Master did
directly for one He did indirectly for
a great many others. The blessings of
Ills peace were not confined to the
men who had Invoked His help. These
blessings were diffused across the sul
len waters, so that when the storm
was over it was not one, but many
ships that, with thankful hearts
aboard, sailed Into the harbor beneath
the hill, delivered from the perils of
the deep, safe home at last
These other little ships remind , us
of the unseen comradeships In life.
We are not alone in the storms of life.
With you, though you may not know
It, there are other souls fighting the
same kind of battle through sorrow
and temptation; and in their courage
and endurance you ought to find a
certain Inspiration. Wonderful is this
ministry of the unseen sympathy of
life. It Is good for us, surely, once in
a while, to be reminded of it, and to
send across the waters a friendly cry,
and hold up, perhaps, a k.ndly light
through the driving mirk.
These other little ships remind us
also of the unseen fellowship In death.
No wonder that the soul shlnks from
the loneliness of that Journey. Yet
again there are the other little ships.
Every moment there are other souls
passing out Into the darkness of that
great sea of eternity. And over them
Is the light of God's love; and It need
not be lonely for you and me If In trust
on Christ we take that last voyage of
human life.
When that brave soul, Cnarles
Klngsley, lay dying In one room, and
his wife dangerously 111 In another,
she sent him a message one day, to
ask if he thought It cowardly for a
poor soul to tremble before the mys
tery of that unknown world. "Not
cowardly," was his response; "but, re
member, It Is not darkness we are go
ing to, for God is light; not loneliness,
for Christ Is with us." And what are
we, In that Inst experience of life, but
like those other ships who will make
port at Inst because of One who was
with them, and before whose presence
even the shadows of death melt Into
radiant light? .
SCIENCE AND RELIGION.
By Sir Oliver Lodge.
Text "The heavens declare the
glory of God and the firmament show
eth His handiwork." Psalm xlx:l. 1
There is a great deal of misappre
hension about the possibility of mind
acting upon matter without upsetting
the law of conservation of energy. If
a living thing produces an effect or
moves a body which would not other
wise have been moved, it is some
times said that the life must be one
of the forms of energy, otherwise It
could not Interact with the material
world and produce the energetic ef
fects. My contention is that It does
Interact with the 'material world, and
that it does not upset the law of con
servation of energy.
Railway rails always direct the
course of the locomotive. How does
the rail act? It acts by applying force
t trrtit nn,i.. n thn motion of tho
body." The gravitation pull of the sun4
on a planet keeps It moving In its
orbit, but does not accelerate or re
tard It, simply curves It
' Energy blows the bellows of the or
gan, but It is the organist who deter
mines where the energy shall go. By
harmonizing that energy in certain di
rections the organist can produce
music formerly conceived by the con
poser and recorded in manuscript
Life is the director of energy, not en
ergy. So with engineering operations,
The bridge Is built by . the navvies,
You might say the energy la In the
tin cans in which the navvies bring
their breakfast But the direction of
the energy Is In the mind of the engi
neer, or the contractor, or utlmately
in the mind of the genius who con
ceives the work.
All men realize that truth Is the Im
portant thing, and that to take refuge
In any shelter less substantial than
the truth Is but to deceive themselves,
and become liable to abject exposure
when a storm comes on. - Most men
are aware that it. Is a sign of unbal
anced Judgnjent to conclude on the
su-engm or a rew momentous discov
eries, that the whole structure of re
ligious belief, built up through the
ages by the developing human race
from fundamental emotions,, and In
stincts, and experiences- rests on a
sandy foundation or on no foundation
at all.
Everything in the universe may be
come intelligible if we go the right
way to work. And so vJe are coming
to recognize on the one hand that
every system of truth-must be inti
mately connected with the other, and
that this connection will constitute a
trustworthy support as soon as it is
revealed by the extensive foundation
of truth iiuvv being laid by stieuniie
workers will ultimately support a
gorgeous building of aesthetic feeling
and religious faith.
KNOWLEDGE FROM STILLNESS.
By Key. frank Cornell.
Text "Be still and know that I am
God." Psalm 40:10.
It Is by quiet soul communion that
we know "what manner of men we
are." "How easy we are deceived."
The world flatters us and we, measur
ing ourselves by ourselves, Imagine we
are of great consequence. We look
upon some achievement, some little
success, and in the pride of our heart
we feel like Nebuchadnezzar when he
beheld the magnlflcance of the royal
city and exclaimed, "Is not this great
Babylon, that I have built the house
of the kingdom by the might of my
power, and for the honor of my ma
jesty? But a few months away from
the haunts of man and the activities
of court life so restored the reason
of this success intoxicated king that
he saw himself In a far different light
The loneliness of the mountain and
quietness of the field now led him to
say, "And at tile end of the days I,
Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up mine eyes
unto heaven, and mine understanding
returned unto me, and I blessed the
Most High, and I praised and honored
Him that liveth forever, whose domin
ion Is an ever lasting dominion, and
His Kingdom Is from generation to
generation."
Oh business man, distracted by fail
ure, or intoxicated by success, away
to mountain, lake and stream. Go not
to the fashionable summer resort,
where the melodies of nature are mar
red by the music of men, but go rather
where some primeval forest murmurs
perpetual praise. Where some quiet
lake, nestled among the mountains re
flects the Image of the Divine. Find
some spot, hemmed in by granite rocks,
that have never echoed a discordant
note, and in the great audience cham
ber of God get knowledge, self knowl
edge that will make . thee feel weak
at first until thou dost remember thnt
man was made ruler over all the
earth, and that he is a child of the
Divine Father. And when thou dost
hear nature's continual hum of praise,
will burst forth in adoration, as did
one of yore, who said,' "Unto Thee, O
God, do we give thanks, unto Thee do
we give thanks for that Thy name is
near Thy wondrous works declare."
Ah, He down upon the grassy bank
if need be, and in this silent temple
stay, till the stars look down, through
the leafy trees, and from all nature
thou dost catch a language not Intend
ed for the ear, but for the heart, and
In God's very presence "Be still and
know."
Thus often waiting before Him thou
shalt be fitted for a fuller revelation
of His divine power and glory, and
shalt understand the promise of God
through the prophet Joel when he said,
"And It shall come to pass afterward,
that I will pour out My spirit upon all
flesh; and your sons and your daugh
ters shall prophesy, your old men shall
k dream dreams, your young men shall
see visions and' also upon the' servants
and upon the handmaids In those days
TlZLTl
Beloved, enter into the holy stillness
and you shall know.
Short Meter Sermons.
He knows little who comprehends all
he knows.
A short temper bas the other kind
of a tongue. '
The best way to clear your title to
an estate in the skies Is to pay your
taxes on it now.
The man who learns by bis mistakes
soon discovers that there is no gradu
ating from that school.
AMERICAN WOMAN AND HOME,
s
A Critic Sara the Farmer Haa Abol
- inhed the Latter.
I have not seen a single home In
two great American cities, though I
have visited many, says an oriental
writer in Public Opinion. The hearth
has been abolished, the radiator has
taken Its place. The home Is without
Its presiding deity the wise, affec
tionate, self-sacrificing mother, the
true wife whose love for her husband
was her best Jewel, whose devotion to-
all around ber Insured peace and har
mony; the very life of a home.
And who has usurped the throne of
this domestic deity? A lady partner
who has agreed, before a church altar
or in a registry office, to live together
with the man of her momentary choice,
as long as it suits ber or the man, la
a suite of rooms or a bouse for the
purpose of enjoying and hunting ma
terial pleasures. It Is a lady who has
abolished the home as a relic of a bar
barous age, and turned it into sitting,
talking and sleeping rooms with com
fortable or luxurious conveniences,
who has made over the kitchen and
housekeeping to hired cooks and maid
servants or housekeepers to escape the
bother of wordly worries; In many
cases abolished it along with the
home, preferlng to eat ready cooked
foods fii hotels and restaurants. It is
a lady who tries to expiate the sin of
her share in. "race suicide" by caring
more for a baby dog fed to square pro
portions or a cat Indulged out of all
proportions than for a human being.
Il li a ittuy YvllO VuortS liO lUUlM) ut
bringing up children than she knows
of keeping a house or cooking, both
of which she hates. Hence children
generally are either trained by nurses
or governesses or allowed to grow as
wild as they can In character, their
young, Impressionable minds being de
prived of the character building In
fluences of maternal love and Its life
enduring lessons.
This lady, this newest feminine
freak of nature, Is responsible for
much of the disastrous confusion In
human society In this land. But who
Is responsible for her being so? The
men her father and husband. The
father wishes her to eat well,' look
well, sing well, be well educated and
healthy, and full of fascinating man
ners, so that she may catch a rich
husband who, the mother hopes, would
be as great a fool and as good a slave
as her own. And when the fool and
slave Is secured, she has a glorious,
tide on her mental automobile, whose
wheels are her whims, whose steam la
supplied by her vanity and her hus
band's Indulgence, whose track Is self
ishness, whose destination is moral
ruin.
RUINS OF 80UTH AFRICA
Belica Foand of the Finest Nature-
Worshiping Bhrlne Known to Man.
Richard N. Hall, who has given
eight years to the study of the ancient
monuments In southern Rhodesia, says
that none of the hundreds of ruins hn
been more than partially explored.
Many important ruins have been seen.
only by casual travelers, and the work,
of unearthing only a part of the Great
Zimbabwe area would be more than
the labor of a lifetime. Still, researches,
have made great progress in the past
few years. There are in Rhodesia no
less than 300 distinct ruins and groups
of ruins. Only a few scores of these
are entitled to rank as "ancient" The
larger part of them probably do not
date back of the thirteenth, four
teenth and fifteenth centuries.
There is overwhelming evidence at
the Great Zimbabwe of the ancient
civilization- and arts possessed by the
builders of the earliest period. The
Zimbabwe temple Is the finest and
most Intact example of a nature-worshiping
shrine known to the world. Its
construction points unmistakably to
some knowledge of geometry and as
tronomy on the part of the builders.
It Is quite certain that even the cruder
methods of Zimbabwe of applying this
knowledge, which was common to the
ancient Semitic peoples, were Imported
from the near east and did not orig
inate In southeast Africa.
The right ascension of the sun, the
heliacal rising and the meridian pas
sages of stars, are believed to bave
been noted at Zimbabwe. These an
cient builders were also past masters
In the science of military defense, the
walls showing that the builders were
military strategists of the highest or
der. Their gold ornaments, finely de
signed and engraved, could not bave
been the work of an uncivilized people,
and the hundreds of ancient gold mines
show that they were skilled In metall
urgy and picked out rich shoots,
patches and pockets with marvelous
cleverness. It la Estimated that from
these widespread mines they extracted
$575,000,000 of gold. Geographical
Journal.
Overcome.
Tlmson I never faulted away but
once, and that was Just a few days
ago. Bimson What was the causer
Tlmson My wife told me that she
had trained herself so she could walk
through a store full of bargain counter
sales with her purse full of money and
never buy a thing. Detroit Free
Press,