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.