LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
CltAS. P. ABA B. SOUL8, Pub:
TOLEDO OREGON
It Is up to you to win the prize; let
It continues to look as if the Czar'
boy ought, as soon as be Is old enough,
to learn a trade.
There may be millions of germs in
kisses, but It is not the germs, but the
kisses, that count
Wonderful how much larger Nicho
las grows as be divests himself of his
autocratic Impediments.
The Japanese, while feeling sorry
for the Czar, must entertain a poor
opinion of his illustrious ancestors.
Why do well meaning men help to
degrade the standard of humor by
laughing at Jokes that aren't funny?
The Kaiser has a lurking suspicion
that his Uncle . Edward helped to deal
the cards in the game for the Morocco
takes.
President McCurdy of the Mutual
Indignantly denies the charge of ex
travagance. He doesn't mention the
other name he has for it.
Russia has gained a much greater
victory and far more glory than would
have been hers if she had swept the
Japanese from the face of the earth.
A New York girl has had her lover
arrested "because he kissed her too
much." One of the first things a lover
should learn is to kiss the girl Just
enough.
A remarkable improvement is report
ed in China's army, which is always
touted as formidable except when
some nation wants to take something
away from China.
A little publicity as to those evil
minded legislators who have been
blackmailing the insurance companies
Is necessarily the next thing. This is
where the plot thickens.
Reports from Sofia say tlint "a lady
bandit" Is operating in the Caucasus.
She is foohsh for operating where
money is so scarce when she might
come over here and have a booth at
a charity fair.
A Kansas storekeeper advertises
that he sells stamps and postal cards
at cost, ii he wishes to secure the
patronage of the women he will have
to announce a reduction for slightly
damaged goods.
In a recent address to the highest
ofllcers of the German army Emperor
William said: "How matters tand
with us in the world you have seen.
Therefore keep your powder dry and
your swords whetted." Evidently
William doesn't expect the next Hague
conference to amount to much.
New Jersey lg up In arms over the
automobile outrages which make It un
safe for an equestrian to venture on
the public highways. Inasmuch as
these highways have been built and
are maintained by the taxpayers in
general, a demand is made for the use
of these roads with a reasonable de
gree of safety, and societies are being
organized to enforce the rights of the
law-abiding many as against the usur
pations of the lawless few.
"Boom" towns In America are not
the only places In which land values
Increase. A London newspaper says
that within thirty years the value of
the land in London proper has Increas
ed from a hundred and sixty-eight mil
lion pounds to four hundred and eight
een million, or two and a half times.
The most valuable land Is in the neigh
borhood of the Bank of England, where
it has been sold at the rate of three
million two hvndred and fifty thousand
pounds an acre almost three hundred
and seventy-five dollars a square foot.
In ten years the number of students
In certain great colleges of the country
has Increased from thirty-eight thous
and to sixty-two thousand five hundred
5 per cent. The ten universities that
have the largest attendance include
four institutions in Eastern States and
elx in Western and middle Western
States. A competent authority points
out that the attendance is growing fas
ter than the population, that Western
Institutions are growing faster than
Eastern that science and engineering
courses are forging ahead of the old
courses In arts, that the number of wo
men students is increasing faster than
the number of men. The same author
ity predicts that in five years some one
of the Western universities, with state
pride behind It, will take the lead In
point of numbers over Harvard, which
la and has been the largest.
Hazing, largely stamped out In most
Ajnarlcan Institutions of learning, baa
returned with a vengeanc to makt
cowards of freshmen and brutes of
'sophomores. The latest outbreak is the
worst on record. Collegians are men
in the commission of misdeeds and
boys when about to be punished for
them. The law of the land Is some
thing to be despised and outraged by
them at every turn until brought face
to face with its majesty, when they
are only too ready to take advantage
of their legal Infancy to escape its
penalties. Hazing Is inevitably a
breach of the law of the land. To enter
a freshman's room unbidden for the
commission of an assault upon him Is
burglary. The intent to do him bodily
harm, as shown by the ordinary trli-ks
played by sophomores, is punishable
by fine and imprisonment. To lock
him up is false imprisonment, another
felony. It Is the business, the sworn
duty, of every officer of the law in col
lege towns to see that no hazing takes
place. A few well-directed words from
fathers, who should realize that youth
Is the time in which respect for the
law should be taught, wijl do much to
bring these bazers to a realization of
their real place in the world. To lie,
to steal, to assault and batter, to kid
nap, to commit burglary, to be guilty
of malicious mischief are not what the
manly man regards as Jests, even in
his own sons.
It is usually a waste of time to an
tagonize a popular fad and it is con
sequently not worth while to make an
onslaught upon college football. That
bpuu, If U deserves the designation,
may be unnecessarily brutal, but peo
ple are In love with it This Is shown
by the increasing crowds that attend
the games. The American populace,
like the Roman populace, has a fancy
for an admixture of blood with Its
athletic entertainments. Not only the
football field but the nuclllstlc arena
shows the extent of this predilection.
ho nothing Is likely to be accomplished
by criticising college football
score of its brutality. Something may
ue said, However, In favor of modify
ing its scope so as to bring It Into the
same class as other college sports In
other words, to make it an incident of
collegiate life Instead of one of the
principal factors. This Is the view of
the mutter which Is taken bv manv col
lege heads and notably by President
Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the Univers- j
ity of California. The Idea Is that
football must not be permitted to over- j
shadow or even to interfere with the
serious work of academic Hfe. It must
be relegated to the category of ordl-1
nary athletics Instead of being made
the chief business of the students who
participate in it. It is true, as Pres
ident Wheeler declares, that the game
In Its proper form and in its proper
relations is too good to be abandoned
altogether. The thing to do Is to change
Its nature, to eliminate highly special
ized training and costly equipment'
In short, to make It clear that the
young men who participate in the
game nre students first and football
players incidentally, Instead of foot
ball experts primarily and students If
there happens to be time for study.
This Is certainly a reform which Is
practicable even though the elimina
tion of brutality may be regnrded as
impracticable. President Wheeler
calls attention to another objectionable
feature of football, but It Is one which
Is common to many other forms of ath
letics. He complains that the sport is
confined to a small number of players,
while the great part of the student
body is relegated to the bleachers or
behind the fence. This Is true, but
it Is also true of college boating and
of college baseball. In the very na
ture of things these and slmllnr sports
can not be participated In by the en
tire body of students. In this respect
football Is no worse than Its athletic
contemporaries. The Indictment
against football, In short, Is aside
from Its brutality that It
dominant position In college life, where
as it Is or it ought to be n mere ath
letic incident. This can readily be cor-1
rected If the college authorities make
up their minds to do It. College foot
ball may be mended, but ft can not be 1
ended. It has acquired too hlch a '
popularity for that.
The Roar Waa Inaudible.
Travelers from the United States, af
ter a visit to England and the Con
tinent, are usually willing to acknowl
edge that there Is a shrill quality In
the voices of American women. The
New York Tribune tells of a party of
tourists who were on their way to
visit a famous waterfall, when the
power of American vocal organs was
well Illustrated.
For two hours they ascended the
quiet, pleasant road.
"We are nearly there now," the
guide aatd at last and with revived
spirits the tourists pressed on.
"How much farther, guide?" asked.
a little later, a young man whose boots
were tight.
"Only a short distance, sir," was the
answer. "As soon as the ladles stop
talking you will hear the roar."
When a new fellow comes to town.
and doesn't do very well, people soon
begin to Inquire: 'Where did that
fellow come from" I
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AJT IDEAL CHUISr.
By Bev. Eussell H. Conwell.
Text: "This is a faithful saying,
and worthy of all acceptation, that
Christ Jesus came into the world to
save sinners." I. Timothy 1:15.
I was asked if I would give a defini
tion of the Christian's "Ideal Christ."
The question in Itself may not seem at
first to have such interest as it does
when you know the history of the
question. There has of late been a
great deal of discussion In some cir
cles concerning "Christianity pure and
simple." The tenor of the arguments
I need not present here, and It would
do more harm than good for me to dis
cuss it in a great promiscuous Chris
tian congregation like this. And yet,
when souls hang upon a definition, as
it seems to me in this case there are
several who do, I feel that it? is my
duty to try to uiiavver the question.
The clearest definition which I could
give of our Ideal Christ (and when I
say "Ideal," I also mean the real
Christ, because no ideal can exceed
the reality) Is found in the fifteenth
verse of the first chapter of I. Tim
othy: "This is a faithful saying and
worthy of all acceptation, that Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sin
ners." My friends, there Is nothing higher
than that, there Is nothing better than
that. The answer I give to your ques
tion Is: "A Savior." That is our high
est ideal.
Is there an Ideal in art; is there an
Ideal In literature; Is there an Ideal In
the highest, best and wisest action of
the imagination, that is more delicate
ly fashioned, more magnificent in its
proportions, more touching in its ef
fects upon the human heart than that
which Is expressed In that one word
Savior?
Have you an ideal more heroic than
the ord Savior conveys? Can you
Imagine anything, even In war, more
grand than to save? Sir Philip Syd
ney received bis title and his honors
because he came to the rescue of that
imprisoned body of men at Acre, on
the shore of Palestine, in that great
campaign with Napoleon. He was
doubly honored, because he was a
rescuer, because he came to save a
garrison. More honor came to him
then, more honor comes to his name
now, than there would have been giv
en to the French army if It had suc
ceeded In the awful charges made at
that siege. They were Invaders; he
came to save.
And such is the history of Ideal
Christianity. Every man saves him
self, In a sense, by working for the
salvation of others in the name of Him
that died for all. You and I under
stand It, for we have walked along the
some paths of atheistic philosophy, and
tried to teach the same dark Infidelity.
I say the argument that convinced me
will convince you; that wherever a
good deed Is done it is a Christian act,
and the more we sacrifice for the good
of others the better men and women
we are.
But I go back to our magnificent
platform. Back to the old, true story.
This Is not only an ideal Christ, but
He Is a real oue. No ideal of ours can
approach Ills reality, His beauty, His
kindness. Even from the foundation
of-the world down to the present mo
ment Jesus our Divine Christ has died
for humanity. He is "the Lamb; was
slain from the foundation of the
world." Continuously Is He dying for
Humanity, always giving Himself for
the good of men. Oh, God's magnifi
cent charaoter, His love for us! Giv
ing Himself! Giving Ills own Son to
save us! This is the highest Ideal of
our Christ, and It should be of yours
the Heavenly Father exercising Ills
power toaave a wicked, rebellious and
fallen generation of sinners.
THE GOOD TIME COMHTQ.
By Rev, Henry JT. Cope.
Jesus came Into Galilee preaching
the gospel of the kingdom of God.
Mark I., 14.
Humanity has always believed In
the coming of the kingdom of God.
It has always looked for a day when
discords should cease, when the will
of the all loving Lord of all should be
the law for all. It has never at heart
believed that oppression, injustice, and
the suffering that springs from selfish
ness and sin were normal to us, could
ever be right, or were even Irremedia
ble. Deep in us all there is the con
viction' that there Is in this world r
power that works for righteousness,
for peace, for higher forma of living,
"uu that happiness is but harniu
with that power. '
At some time every man sees the
vision of the better times coming. No
matter how dark to-day may be to
morrow dawns brighter, with some an
cient wrong righted, some old abuse
gone forever, some tyrant dead, and
some new and fairer, holler things be
gun. To the normal heart each day
seems to bring at least a little lift In
the great life of this old world. The
past proves it The dreams of our
fathers have come true; better things
than they even dared to hope have
been accomplished. An honest review
of history is a decided antidote for
pessimism.
No longer can we be content to be
lieve that the universe is the play
thing of the devil, or hold a doubt as
to the ultimate issue of the conflict of
the ages. To a world steeped In the
cynicism that said the gods are dead
and hope is but folly, Jesus came with
the good news of a God still on his
throne, of a great Father of us all
loving and working for the good of
all. He has taught the ages the etern
al and unconquerable might of the
good. He was the apostle of hope;
hungry hearts turned to him and he
fed them with happiness.
He did not talk of -better things in
some other world, of a good time com
ing in the days we might not see he-
yond the grave. This kingdom of heav
en was something real, immediate, sim
ple, . suostantlal. So practical and
present was it that the people who
preferred to postpone the realization
of their religion to some other world
were shocked, offended, and aroused
to opposition.
But to men then and to men to-day
there come times, many and often,
when we most of all need tn ho in
sured that this is a right world; that
this kingdom of the good, where right,
truth, justice, and
ing and Is becoming more and more
enecuve rigut here. It may seem as
though God had foreotten. na tlmmrh
the only law was that of the fist, as
inougn justice and mercy had fallen.
In that time of struccle thev . hoi,..
less who are hopeless. They are In
vincible who cling to the assurance
of the reign of righteousness, who see
the good being wrought out of the i
seeming ill and the peace coming from
iue pain.
Men learning to read the reenrd nt
nature have found there the Inrtnran.
ment of the message of the great teach
er; she shows the long process of all
things working together for good, to
bring in the reign of the best Con
sider the lilies; their perfection is the
product of the ages. If God so clothe
the grass of the field, shall he not much
more you? The hand of love that fash
ions a flower with so much care in or
der that it might minister to man will
not move with less skill where the
making of man Is concerned.
The trouble full often Is that we are
looking for that coming golden age to
consist In golden things; the good time
coming means to many but more meat
and drink, clothes, furniture, and fol
lies. But golden streets do not make
a golden age; warehouses of parlor
suits do not make one single home.
There will be plenty of every good
thing when the wrongs within are
righted, when the old greed, malice,
and bitterness nre gone. New hearts
make the new nge.
Yet the new heart and the new age
shall be ours If we but believe In Its
possibility. Faith In its coming brings
It. Believe in the better day, work,
pray for it, be fit for it. It dawns ev
ery day; every breath brings It nearer.
This Is the good news, that man moves
Into the light.
Short Meter Sermons,
The servile cannot serve.
Honest prayer kills pride.
Atheism Is simply moral anarchy.
Rites have' done little for the right.
Killing time is throwing life away.
Praying for ease is asking to be an
Invalid.
No church Is rich unless the poor sit
in her pews.
Trimmed truth does not improve Its.
appearance.
The smaller a man's line the larger
will be his Busy sign.
Ecclesiastical log rolling furnishes
the devil with plenty of fuel.
The less a man thinks of hia virtues
the greater their value.
Your opinion of life may be but a re
flection of life's opinion of you.
A donkey may buy a degree for
cash, but he cannot conceal his brogue.
The time to be most wary of new
sin Is when you bury an old one.
It does not make the saints tender
hearted to keep them in hot water.
The dominance of one church will
not cure the differences of the many.
Baking- Table and Flonr Cheat.
TTaA la a V 1-1 l.ll. i a
u-iu ia a uantug uime auu nour
chest that almost any handy man can
make. It contains a flour chest on one
side with a slide for molding board
TABLE AKD CHEST.
above. At the right there are three
drawers, the shallowest for cooking
utensils, while the other two may be
divided, the middle one for other kind
of flour or may be used for table
cloths, napkins, towels, etc. The whole
Is three feet eight inches long and two
feet deep. Emrick Peterson.
Cheeae Frlttera.
This is a good way of using up
cheese-riuds, which, even after this
process, are good for the stock-pot
Grate your cheese, add its weight in
flour, then according to taste, some dry
mustard, pepper and salt. Well beat
the yolk of one egg in a tcacupful of
water with a bit of butter about the
siz9 of a walnut, mix all ingredients,
frying them by tablespoonfuls in boil
ing fat. They turn out very tastily,
and after being allowed to drain, will
keep hot and crisp In the oven until It
Is time for their appearance on the
dlnlng-table.
Vegetable Dinner. ,
An excellent and nourishing vegeta
ble dinner, particularly suitable for
large families. Put some dripping at
the bottom of a saucepan, then thick
slices of peeled potatoes, a little on
ion, pepper and salt to taste; another
layer of dripping, potatoes, onion, etc.,
and repeat until the saucepan Is full,
or according to quantity required. Add
sufficient water to prevent burning,
and stir occasionlly. Time, fifteen to
twenty minutes. This Is an excelleut
way of using up cold fat meat. In place
of dripping.
Welah Itareblt.
Quarter pound good toasting cheese,
full teaspoonful butter, tablespoonful
milk (or better, cream), hajf-teaspoon-ful
of mustard and of salt, and a lit
tle pepper. Pare rind off, and cut
cheese into small bits; melt butter :n
a pan; put in cheese, cream, or milk,
and stir till all is melted, then add
seasonings. Have three slices of un
buttered toast ready; pour the con
tents of pan upon them and serve hot.
Sometimes the yolk of an egg is add
ed at the last.
Potato Soup.
A very fine potato soup Is made by
adding a quart of scalded milk, in
which several slices of onions have
been steeped, to two cupfuls of mash
ed potato. Soften, not melt, a larg
tablespoonful of butter, and mix with
It an equal quantity of flour. Add salt,
pepper, and a dash of celery salt, and
pour gradually, stirring ail the time,
into the milk and potato mixture.
Sprinkle a little finely mixed parsley
on top. Serve with buttered crutons.
Spanlah Stew.
The remains of cold mutton may be
made very tasty In this way: Peel
and slice thinly a large Spanish onion,
fry it a golden brown in a little drip
ping, and then add a sinall half-pint
of stock; place a layer of meat on tho
onions, cover It with slices of carrots;
put the lid on the saucepan and set
it on the side of the range where It
will cook Blowly. Serve with sippets
of toast arranged around.
nalaln Pie.
Seed and chop two teacupfuls of rais
ins, add to them a half-cup of sugar, a
cup of water and one lemon peeled,
seeded and chopped fine. Into the mix
ture stir a tableRpoonful of flour and
turn all Into a pie plate lined with puff
paste. Make a criss-cross pattern of
pastry over the top of the pie and
bake.
Graham Mnfllna. -
One quart graham flour, one table
spoonful sugar, one teaspoonful salt,
one teaspoonful soda, two teaspoonfuls
cream of tartar, one egg, one pint
milk. Sift together flour, sugar, salt,
cream of tartar and soda, add beaten,
egg and milk. Bake in muflin pan la
a hot oven fifteen minutes.
Spice Not Cakea.
One cup of molasses, two cups of
brown sugar, one cup of butter, one
cup of sweet milk, one cup of nut
meats, chopped fine, spice to tnste, an.d
one teaspoonful of soda dissolved In
a little hot water. Mix In flour enough
so that-ingredients will stir easily.
Roll anil cut In small cakes.