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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1905)
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER CHAS. P. ADA E SOULB, Pabs. TOLEDO OREGON One of the worst thing about that Chinese boycott ia that It hurt. It la one thing to pass anti-cigarette lawa and another to enforce them. Some day the Caar may discover that no price la shameful If you really havo to pay It One of the wonders of the radium la that the more you atudy It the lasa you know about It Another good way to mutuallze a Ufa Insurance company la to make the annual premluma smaller. Children may dlaown their parents, but they are alwaya ready to come in for a share of the property. Sixty languages are spoken in the domain of the Czar. Russia la almost at cosmopolitan as New York. A philosopher la a man who can at tend a three-ring circus and be content to watch the performance in the near est ring. A Cleveland correspondent declares Mr. Rockefeller "wanta sympathy." Not only that, but he really aeems to need it "All men make mistakes." explains Senator Mitchell. True, but all men don't make the mistake of allowing their mistakes to be found out The Kalamazoo philanthropist who left $10,000 to provide tramps with meals must want the fund to accumu late. A bath goes with each feed. A New York magistrate sentenced a defendant to kiss his wife once a day, and there was no sour old bachelor around to protest against the sentence as "cruel and unusual punishment" The amazing number of those "smart set" publications suggests the astonishing number of things the "smart Bet" had or hadn't been doing which It did or didn't want publlahed. If the late Paul Jones had been lucky enough to lose an arm or a leg In glorious combat aa other great commanders have done, the identifica tion of bla remains would have been comparatively easy. A Kanaaa man declined the other day to operate on a man for appendi citis, although he had the patient at his mercy. We suspect that this was merely another scheme to secure free advertising for Kansas. Somebody la calling attention to the fact that the combined aalartea of four teen prominent university presidents do not equal the salary of a life insur ance president" If the university pres idents are the men to blame for the college boys' clothes they don't deserve any more pay. It la said that more than 4,000 lives, 200 ships and $100,000,000 have been xpeuded at varloua times In efforts to reach the north pole. On this compu tation, should the goal ever be achiev ed, every acre of ground In the whole arctic region will have been bought and paid for at better than market rates. Great la the helpful hen! According to the last government census, the American hen produces annually $2S1. 178,247 In products. Last year she produced almost $137,000,000 worth of marketable progeuy and over $144,000, 000 worth of eggs. She laid over 1.250, 000,000 dozen of eggs, or 203 for every Inhabitant of this country. Ohio leads In value of eggs produced; Iowa In numbers. Eggs are highest In Alaska, average 43 cents per dozen; cheapest In Texas, average 7.7 cents per dozen. In spite of the honors recently paid to Paul Jones by the navy department It Is a puzzling reflection that If Faul Jones were alive to-day he could not get a commission In the United States navy except In the remote contingency that he should enlist and succeed in getting one of the half dozen commis sions which are yearly available to en listed men who pass a particularly stiff examination. Up to four or five year ago he would not have bad even that chance. The only way to the quarter deck was then through the naval acad emy and it la not much different now. We reverence the stern virtues of our predecessors, those who founded our republic, bnt to-day there Is less of sect, and, we believe, more of Chris tianity. The liberalizing spirit has brought men Into more generous, more tolerant relations; hands are clasped in good works; selfish or sectional or ex clusive benefits are not encouraged. The millennium la not yet In eight but .who shall say that It la not perceptibly nearer? It is a better world than that of our ancestors, this world that wo live to better, cleaner, happier, more run or promise for honest endeavor, more Inspiring for advancement along the Hues of human progress. Every once in a while there Is a quarrel among the managers of some great enterprise railway, manufactur ing, life Insurance. And In the strug gle the door Is pushed open and tho public has a glimpse of what la going on behind bribery funds for public officials, salaries of enormous size to parasites, stock Jobbing, gambling, awlndlea on the public. At the shout of dismay and horror from the public the quarrelers grow silent cease their struggling, hastily draw the door io. And presently, on the marble steps, appears a smug, suave gentleman, a "bulwark" of society, and he eloquent ly explaina to the public that it really Is mistaken In thinking it saw things more like the doings in a den of thieves than In a "great financial institution." Some day the smug gentleman will be pained by the discovery that he Is no longer believed. That "Might makea right" is a doc trine which has always been abhor rent to believers In a republican form of government and, indeed, to all who revere human liberty and abstract Jus tice. Any defense of the doctrine seems at first thought to be subversive of all ethical standards. There is ev erywhere among civilized peoples a growing tendency to apply to nations and government the buLuu iuuml rules which have long been applied to indi viduals, and the result is, In the main, to the benefit of humanity. The proc ess must not, however, be carried too far, for then It develops a narrowness of vision incompatible with the most efficient statesmanship. President Jainea B. Angell in his recent Phi Beta Kappa oration at Harvard touched upon some of the cases in which na tions cannot be governed by the ethics of individuals and in which, in aome sense, might does make right To most Americans the "European con cert" represents the perpetuation of in justice, yet a broader view presents It in a different light Let it be recog nized that the "concert" has kept the Sultan of Turkey on his throne, and has failed to punish his misdeeds; that It has not given to Greece all that it desired or deserved, and that It has done or left undone other thlnsrs the omission or performance of which would better have satisfied the univer sal sense of Justice. Yet It must also be recognized that it has preserved tne peace or Europe, and so performed a service of transcendent Justice. In America the Monroe doctrine involves the use of power similar to that which tne European concert exercises In the other hemisphere. By what rlarht hn the United States decide what Euro pean nations may do with the indepen dent governments in Sduth America? The answer is, by the right of eighty or ninety millions of people to Judge more wisely than ten or twenty mil lions and to plan more surely for the general welfare of all. This Is the doctrine of the will of the majority, upon which all republics rest Hereto fore it has been applied only to the people of one city or State or nation. Now it is beginning to be regarded in the light of Its applicability to the community of nations. The Bine Looster. "Is It losing color?" asked a visitor at the Aquarium of oue of the attend ants, referring to the blue lobster, which seemed to him to be losing its color. "No," was the answer, "It simply needs dusting off. That dark color on its back is caused by a fine, velvet-like marine vegetation that has settled there out of the waters of the tank and had a chance to grow and spread because the lobster here cannot well keep Itself clean. "Plenty of lobsters have been cap tured with barnacles growing on them, attaching to them Just as bar nacles attach and grow on turtles and on ahipa, and plenty of lobsters have been taken with marine vegetation at tached to and growing on them. 1 knew of an old lobster, weighing about twenty-five pounds, that had attached to It growlug in this manner when it was captured, sea grass two and a half or three feet long. "But lobsters with such growth on them would be most likely to be found on rocky bottoms; on sandy bottoms lobsters are likely to keep themselves clean. "If this blue lobster was free and on a sandy bottom, It would bury Itself in the sand and rub Itself In it as a chicken rubs and wallowa in the dust and so keep Its shell smooth and free from growths. But we couldn't give this lobster sand here, because if we did it would keep itself out of sight more or less, and we keep It here to be seen. -No, the blue lobster is all right; all it needs is a little grooming." New York Sun. Lady Can that parrot talk? Dealer Talk? Whv mar. laAr mn'A fink he wax brought up la i box at ' de opery. THE SIGN OV A SAINT. By Rer. It. M. Hmlleck. "By this shall all men know that yoa are my disciples if you have love one to another." John 13:85. It seems as if it would be a good thing if every man bore some sign or mark which accurately Indicated Ms true character, if the sheep and the wolves wore their right clothing In this world as well as In another. At present attempts to label by but tons, badges, neckties, or even by fa cial contortions, must be counted as unreliable, subject to counterfeiting. Generalizations based on ecclesiastical classifications may seem to hold good on Sunday; but they break down under the test of commerce and there seems to be a prospect of their being entirely disarranged at the time when their de pendents expect most of them. There is a means of classification nd Identification, however, as simple as it is reliable and permanent The great teacher saw his first followers looking around for labels; they wanted a gown or hood, a button or a charm, a password or a holy groan. He gave them a sign that all could obtain, that none could Imitate, and that no one could steal from them. Living, work ing love Is the label of tlw Christian. This is the proof of a better life, the evidence of a power that makes the man anew. The moment even the basest character really begins to love, it begins to lift itself toward the best. You cannot love, In the sense of sac rificing, helping, serving others without coming Into uplifting relationship with the most high. Love's deeds prove to all the presence of love. This Is the only orthodoxy. Surely the standard of the master is enough. Somewhere there are penalties re served for those who set up other standards, who insist on shibboleths of credal statements, or on intellectual gymnastics of doctrinal assent wbq erect barriers to keep from their up ward way any hearts that are turning to the good. No other test does Jesus give than this that men love one an other. This ia the true worship. Church meetings are bnt means of suggesting ways of doing this, of stimulating our otherwise selfish hearts to their service of love. That only Is a religious ser vice which leads men to sacrifice, to serve one another. There is more wor ship In giving pure milk to slum babies than there is In sitting Sunday after Sunday drinking In, like a sponge, the sincere milk of the word, or the honey of. the choir. This is the true work of the church, not to love Itself, bnt to love the other fellows; not to build fine churches and make soft cushions for Its own, but to make all these things and to make them nobly for the halt and the sad and the lonely. Not only to knit red socks for Hottentots, but so sincerely, unaffectedly, actually to love your civ ilized neighbor on the street or the alley as to knit him to you by bonds that cannot be broken. This Is the secret of every religious, philanthropic, educative movement that has accomplished any good, that It won men because It wns not afraid to spend life and shed blood for them. No life was bullded, no reform accom plished, no great work of any kind was ever done without the shedding of great drops of sweat and blood; and this, this giving up of life, whether in one supreme act or In many little dally deeds, is the act of love and the badge of a Christian. THE FORGIVENESS OP SINS. Bf Rer. Joan H'afsnn, ("an McLaren.") "And he said unto her, thy sins are forgiven." Luke 7:48. "I believe in the forgiveness or sins," said a monk to Martin Luther, and the words were the beginning of the great reformer's life work. And from which to go forward to live for each they are the starting point purely and strongly. When a man has settled affairs with God, he la free from Immense hindrances from every fear; wheu a man has come to terms with Almighty God there Is no one he need fear In tills world nor in that which is to come. It Is a good thing for us to remem ber that sin Is its own punishment Our fathers saw God as interfering at every turn of life and almost controll ing every detail; we realtze ourselves as In the grip of laws which are act ing upon our life. But after all, it is the same thing. For law requires a lawgiver, and a lawgiver will act ac cording to certain things which we call laws. And this scientific attitude helps a also. The conception of tin working automatically its own punish ment saves us from a number of Irri tating questions about the character of our heavenly Father, and also brings ns, every sane man, face to face with reality. Whether God ahould be good-natured and not take any serious notice of sin Is not in question. The question Is whether sin is good na tured. It Is thought by some to be Incredible that God should punish a man in thla life and still more Incred ible that He should punish a man In the life to come. But what need Is there of discussing whether sin pun ishes a man? It la both credible and actual that a man's own sin, without any scruple, punishes him in this life, and will continue to punish him till he die; and it is at least conceivable that under certain circumstances it may continue to punish him in the life to come. You will have to do your time for some sin. This Is not said hardly; it is said with sympathy. But I want to say it with hope also. Take it well; It will be exhausted some day, and you will be a better man. Society la not unmerciful. Do not put a bad face on It; bear it like a man. Don't whine; don't comnlnlnr tnV it rmioti,. modestly, bravely. Some day. one nom you nave known will speak, not referring to the past but Just In a friendly way; crosses the street per haps, to speak to you. Then your pun ishment Is completed, you have ex hausted your time. You are restored to your place In sodetv and von wilt be a deal better man than If you had uol ueen punisned. From the lion, likewise. honey, and from the darkness light "Out of the eater came forth meat UnA out of the strong came forth aweet- uess. uoa snail give you back the pears which the locust and the cantor. worm hath eaten. Take courage, faith. uope. aiy repentant believing brother, in the name of the Lord. I mar "ThJ sins are forgiven thee; go unto Peace." THE UNTIRING GOD. r Rer. SllreMter Home. H. A. "The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faint eth not, neither Is weary; there is no searching of His understanding." Isaiah 40:2a The mighty God Is a tireless God; He falnteth not neither la weary. This is brave doctrine, that a tireless Deity attends humanity amid all Its struggles and hardships, and attends It to aid, soothe, to cheer, to purify, to redeem, to save; is the veritable Gos pel which breathed In the Savior's words and waa eloquent in all His deeds of love and mercy. At the heart of God Is infinite patience. His for bearance is Inexhaustible. His power and His pity never tire. He is never moved from his attitude of grace. With all man's rebel ways and thoughts. He falnteth not His aspect Is ever of love waiting to redeem and power waiting to revive. The miracle of forgiveness, as it is the greatest of all miracles. Is a dally, an hourly miracle a miracle of every moment God is ever blotting out sins from His remembrance never tiring. Oh! I will tell you what it is like. It Is like the infinite, tireless patience of the sea. The children ply their spades upon the sands, to make work for the sea. They heap the sand up, they dig deep Into it Hundreds of them disfig ure the hard, golden surface, and leave their scars upon it; and then quietly the old sea turns upon its course, and rolls Its waves across 'the sands, and every trace of scar la obliterated, be comes as It it had never been; when the tide ebbs again there Is no trace upon the smooth, shining surface of the sand to show that it had ever known disturbance. Most of the great moral defects which nations and causes suffer are due to apathy. People grow tired of being good and doing right Con stancy and persistence In the good and the right are qualities very sadly to seek. Oh, what we need is a sight a real sight of this tireless God who falnteth not neither grows weary. I adjure you to wait upon tne Lord, and you shall renew your strength. There Is all power for you In prayer and fellowship with the unseen. And you will rise from that communion a new man, to mount on wings like eagles, to run and not be weary, and to walk and not faint SHORT METER 8EBMOX8. Fault finders are seldom faithful. Sanctiflcatlon is salvation from self. Love and pain are seldom far apart There la no pedagogy like that of love. The long drawn frown only pulls men down. The darkness awaits him who wastes the day. The brother's burden is the Father's business. WONDERFUL I8LE Of PINES. It Ia Declared to B the Garden Spot of Western Hemisphere. B. C Byrnes of New Orleans dropped Into the Cotton Exchange for a few moments the other day, says the Hons-' ton Post "I have Just returned from the Isle of Pines," he said, "and there la no doubt about its being the garden spot of the western hemisphere. It lies something like sixty miles south of Cuba and np to six years ago the people of this country had scarcely ever heard of it Now It is rapidly de veloping Into the greatest resort al most to the south of ns. Before we Americans heard of it It had become the sanitarium of the Cubans, for it is literally covered with the finest min eral springs In the world. Its future possibilities are absolutely Illimitable In many ways. But it is the fruit gar den of the tropics. Citrus fruits are at home there and oranges grow wild and In the greatest profusion, and owing to the unreliability of the crops else where I am firmly convinced that the time la at hand when It is going to be one of the biggest factors in the orange supply of the country. The transfor mations taking place there are also little short of wonderful. About six or seven years ago the half-million square acres of the island belonged to the Spaniards, but to-day nearly every bit of it has passed to American control. I can also see trouble brewing In that quarter, perhaps of a serious sort, for the Americans there unhesitatingly as sert that title to it did not pass to Cuba at the close of the Spanish war, but that it is (lie property of Hi a U lilted States. The people In control there want no Cuban proprietorship and are disposed to resist any claims in that direction. They say the Island Is of right the property of the United States, and that the latter must assert sover eignty, and if such does not come pret ty soon there Is every prospect of the neatest sort of a little scrimmage in that locality. The trouble Is perhaps more serious than many Imagine, for the Americans who own the lands are among the most influential sort In this country and they are dead sure to bring such pressure to bear npon some administration as will compel the rec ognition of their claims. For my part I don't know of a better piece of ground above which to float forever the stars and stripes than the Isle of Pines. It Is to-day the richest piece of ground, size considered, in the civil ized world, and millions are destined to be made right there.' THE WEDDING DIRECTOR. Boston Woman a Pioneer In New Occu pation for Women. A wideawake woman in Boston has found a new outlet for woman's activ ity by taking charge of weddings, ac cording to the New York Tribune. On the day of the marriage ceremony the Dride and the bride s mother aro gen erally too busy and too tired to give much attention to the management of details. As a helper in this household emergency the wedding director fills a long leic wane Tne name of this pio neer is Mrs. Nellie Bllfflns and h lives with her husband and daughter on Boston's aristocratic Beacon street Mrs. Brlfflns' method is to ret to th house early and to give her first atten tion to the trousseau. She sees to it that the dress, gloves and slippers are Just right She then takes charge of the packing. The bride eats her lunch. eon in comfort knowing that every thing she needs will be In her bags and trunks, carefully inventoried in a little book as to its precise location. Mrs. Brlfflns Is at the church door before the marriage ceremony, to give the last touches to the bride's gown before the bride enters the church. The girl's mother Is even saved from hav ing to see that the rooms are put in order after the newly wedded wife has gone on her wedding tour. Mrs. Bllf fins attends to all that The value of the work of the wed ding director Is best attested by the popularity it haa attained. Most of her business, Mrs. Bllfflns says, comes Indirectly. It haa grown on the prin ciple of an advertisement of a certain merchant some years ago: "If you don't like It tell me; if you J.o like it tell others." At first many people were Inclined to pooh-pooh the Idea of a wedding di rector. To-day, however, they have learned that even to run a wedding properly takes some expert knowledge, Mrs. Bllfflns is a student of design and decorative art, as well as of the chang ing fashions. Frequent visits to New York, and occasional ones to Farls en able her to bring back ideas of how they manage these things in other places. Bnt more valuable yet are the many suggestions her woman's wit and her woman's taste enable her to add to the convenience or the beauty of the wedding. ' Exceptions. Cholly Bronson's the worst ass In town, but on me honah his wife is the clevahest woman I ever saw. Molly Is that kind? Cholly Oh! Present company al ways excepted, y know. Molly Yes, to both cases. Cleve land Leader. Many a man owes all be has to his wife and a lot more to other people.