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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1906)
KiilBBrTrl SECRET OF PROGRESS. . By Bev. Sr. Madison 0. Peters. Add to your faith, virtue. II. Peter i., 15. This la the translation of our com mon version, and virtue, In the time -of King James' translators, was syn onymous with that indefinable quality called grit, bravery or manliness. Most people fall for want of force. Their backbone is all pulp and their nature all straw. Look at the men who have made a success of their lives, and whose In fluence tells for righteousness; few .had friends or backing, nothing but pure grit and invincible purpose to commend them. When Lincoln was asked how Grant Impressed him as a general, he re plied, "The greatest thing about him Is a cool persistence of purpose. He has liie grip uf bulldog; when he -once gets his teeth in nothing can ahake him off." It was "On to Rich mond" and "I shall fight it out on this line if It takes all summer," that broke the backbone of the rebellion. When Phil Sheridan found his army retiring before the victorious Early, the general in command said: "Oh, sir, we are beaten." "No, sir," said Sheridan, "you are beaten, but' not this army." Then seizing his army as Jupiter his thunderbolt he hurled It upon the enemy and snatched victory from the Jaws of defeat. Do you know how General Thomas Jonathan Jackson received the sobri quet "Stonewall," which never left him? The troops of South Carolina, commanded by General Bell, had been overwhelmed at the battle of Manas sas, and he rode up to Jackson In des pair, exclaiming: "They are beating us back." "Then," said Jackson, "we will give them the bayonet." Bell rode back to his command and cried out to them to look at Jackson, say ing, "There he stands like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians." "It is In me and it shall come out," said Sheridan, when told that he would never make an orator, as he had failed In his first speech In par liament. He became one of the fore most orators of his day. Behold William Lloyd Garrison. A broadcloth mob Is leading him through the streets of Boston by a rope. He Is hurried to Jail. He re turns unflinchingly to his work, be ginning at the pointy at which he was Interrupted. Note this heading in the Liberator: "I am earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard." That one man of grit became God's red-hot thunderbolt that shiver ed that colossal iniquity slavery. Even the gallows erected in front of his door did not daunt him. His grit made an unwilling world hear the word "freedom," which was destined never to cease its vibrations utnil it had breathed its sweet secret to the last slave. Grace will avail little unless It Is re-enforced by grit. Daniel In the Babylonian court had the same temp tatloits that our young people encoun ter in social life. He whs a saint In ' the corrupt household of Darius. He dared to stand alone for principle, and, instead of losing his bead, crown ed it. The printer did not make a mistake who set up that verse about .Daniel's spirit: "As for Daniel, an excellent spine was In him." One of the most tremendous words in the language is that mighty monosyllable "No." Here in lies woman's strength In her moral excellence. She cannot find her true dignity apart from goodness. The regard paid to women In society de pends very much upon the standard of morality she sets up, and in every circle she fixes a standard above which few men care to rise. It may be mor tifying to men's pride, bnt.lt Is true that they seldom rise quite up to the standard of morality which women hold before them. If woman speaks lightly of religion, man will blaspheme It. If she Is de voted to .pleasure, he will enter Into dissipation.- If she treats temperance as a Joke, he will regard drunkenness as a pardonable fault. Woman is the law-giver; man is the subject. The only hope for the moral advancement of society is to keep woman In the advance guard. Let her grace point the way and her grit lead-to it and the right progress is secured. Do you remember that, very strik ing scene in George Eliot's "Adam Bede," where Mrs) Poyser, while scolding the clumsy Molly for her bro ken jug of beer, herself drops a much more precious Jug from her clumsy fingers and exclaims: "Did you ever see the like? The Jugs are bewitched, I think." And then, to keeD herself In countenance, she proceeds to argue that "there's times when the crockery seems alive, and flies out of your hand like a bird," and . concludes with the stern philosophy that "What Is to be broke will be broke." How many of us when arralfl-ned by the sting of our conscience have been ready to excuse ourselves with Mrs. Poyser's theory that we were "be witched" by some evil influence which was beyond our power. When Drln- clple bids you stand upright, it Is bet ter to break than to bend. The devil's proverb, "When you are in Rome, do as the Romans do," would excuse any sin, If one could only find a place where sin Is fashionable. Do ing as the Romans did ruined Rome. Paul, doing as the Romans ought to do, saved enough Romans to make a church. The grace of irrit will In crease your influence. Stand by your colors and even those who sneer you to your face will honor you In their hearts. SATISFACTION OF SERVICE. By Bev. Henry F. Cope. I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day. As long as I am In the world I am the light of the world. John lx., 4-B. A man always thinks more of his work than of his wages. He would never be content to toll day in and day out but for the thought that somehow to some one his work was worth while. Neither wages, nor salary, nor any other cash consideration would of It self be sufficient to satisfy him. The workman Is proud of the product of his hands; his reward Is in that he has made; the good shepherd thinks more of the flock than of their fleece or his pay. Satisfaction In work can only come from service rendered. Whether a man be plowing or preaching, sweep ing the streets or building empires, his work is only worthy if his motive be the good he is doing, the value of the work itself. We call the man who preaches a minister, a servant. There Is no more honorable title, but it be longs to every one who seeks to do any worthy work in the world. The purpose of living Is service, therefore the business of religion must be the cultivation of proficiency in ser vice. The work of Christianity is to teach men how to be most .valuable and useful as children and parents, as neighbors and citizens, how to make the most of their lives and to do the most with them. It alms to bring the race to its highest efficiency. Religion reveals to man the worth while object of all his endeavors, to work as a servant for others. Never was Jesus more glorious than when he stooped to lift the palsied, to heal the sick, to feed the hungry. He found his right to rule men by his exercise of the privilege of serving them. . The sheep belong to the good shepherd because he gives his life to them. This marks the true follower of the great Teacher to-day; his business Is to serve, he 'makes living an invest ment for humanity. He is command ed to lose his life, to be willing to give up, to sacrifice all In self-denial, to take his cross and suffer persecution and loss In this way of walking after his Master. But he is not told to throw his life away as a worthless thing. He is to lose It as the seed Is lost In the sow ing, as the money In the Investing; to sacrifice It as the tool la sacrificed to that which It is carving. He who would be of real service to the world must cultivate the best in himself. If living Is seed sowing, then the seed must be good or the harvest will be thin. Heaven's -work demands the finest tools. Nothing is too good for the ser vice of humanity. There is a good deal more religion In the honest at tempt to make the most of yourself, to keep health, to secure education and culture, In order that you mav have the larger, better, wealthier self to use In service than In unending as cetic exercises, prayers, devotions, meditations, mumbling, or visions of things spiritual. The only way you . can prove the genuineness of your religion Is by your gifts to the children of God, your own brothers about you. There is no gift that begins to compare In value with a well trained, well equipped, strong and clean life. We cannot all give gold or lands, or even learning to men, but we can all give lives, and that which heaven and earth both have a right to expect is that we shall give the best lives we can. Some think they are entitled to the wings of an angel because they have the appetite of an ostrich. - The Barn Lantern. Lanterns are undoubtedly the safest things to use in the barn, and if they are hung properly and protected as indicated here there will be tittle or uo danger from Are. Take a piece of inch board and from it cut a circle twelve inches in diameter; then buy a piece of galvanized wire netting fifteen Inch- GOOD BAKU LANTERN. cs wide and four feet long, then a piece of bright new tin eighteen Inches square, a hook with a flat end, so it can be screwed to the wall. Then build a shelf fifteen Inches wide and twen ty Inches long. Nail the shelf In a convenient location in the barn, then on the wall back of the shelf nail the piece of tin which acts as a reflector as well as protects the wall. Fasten the hook on the wall above the tin. Then make a cylinder by nail Ing the wire to the edge of the circular piece of board, lacing the ends of the wire together with stout twine. Set this on the shelf and slip the lantern inside of It, hanging the bale of the lantern on the hook. The wire cylln der protects the lantern yet does not shut off much light, and by having the hook curved there will be little danger of the lantern falling, even under quite a hard blow. The illustration shows all of the details for constructing this arrangement. Indianapolis News. Plnlnhins Off Coopa. One of the economics in the poultry business is to have coops which may be used for any desired purpose with out making It necessary to In any way subdivide the main poultry house, Coops for sick fowls, coops for the roosters, coops for the broody hen and coops to finish oft the birds which are to go to market later. One of the best designs for the latter purpose can be built on the sunny side of the barn or the poultry house proper, thus saving the expense for lumber. This coop Is three feet in width, and any length de sired, but figured so that the lumber will not cut to waste. Hake the frame of rough lumber, using any odds and ends one may have around the place; cover roof and sides and ends with tarred paper. For ventilation, a six-Inch space Is left the entire length of the house at the lower end and this Is covered with wire net ting. For further ventilation holes are bored In one end at the high side near the top. At the lower part of the house under the ventilating space the boards are arranged so that the one nearest the ground Is hinged to the one above It for ease In cleaning the coop. The door In one end Is made of any size desired, although the smaller the better, twenty inches square being a good size. Exchange. Poultry Notea. Eggs are the basis of the poultry In dustry. Egg farming Is the most prof ltable branch of poultry culture. But In order to get eggs we have to keep hens as a sort of necessary lncumber- ance. Some people keep hens at a profit of 60 cents or less per year. Others get as high a profit as $3 per hen. It Is partly a difference in the hens, but It Is much more a difference in the man or woman behind the hen. Very large size Is not desirable In any variety of fowls. According to the new Standard, when "two birds are equal In other respects, the one nearer the weight called for will have the preference, and not the heavier bird, as formerly. Of course, this rule Is against under size as much as against over size. ill S0 jy I'llliiifiillitliiill.ilh.i . Mini 1 A COOP ANNEX. It Is pretty hard to feed the ben too much if the food Is of the right sort Improper feeding does more harm than excessive feeding. Have you tried the dry feeding sys tem, now practiced by most ef the well known poultrymen of the coun try? For Barb Wire Cata. When a horse has been Injured on wire the. first thing to do Is stop the flow of blood; this may as a rule be done by bandaging It up tight ' It may also frequeutly be best to apply powdered alum or common saleratus, both of which will generally be found effective. In a few hours, consider able swelling will set In; this should be reduced either by applying cold wa ter frequently, or, what is really bet ter, applying pure kerosene oil, not only to the wound, but also to the swollen parts.- No bandage should be kept on where kerosene is used, as it will then cause the hair to fall off tem porarily, and as soon as It is safe to do so, the sore should be carefully washed with soft water and castlle soap. This ought to be repeated dally until the sore heals. One of the best healing medicines for horseflesh that I have ever used can be put up at any drug store, as follows: One-half pint of alcohol; one-half pint of spirits of turpentine; 1 ounce of pure glycerine; mix all together In a large bottle and shake well before using. Apply only with a feather at morning and night. The sore should never be bandaged. By dally washing it will iu Uila aj heal up very rapidly. I can person ally testify to the effectiveness of this simple remedy, as we have made use of it In numerous cases, with the best results, where every other remedy we tried failed to heal up the sore on the horse. Agricultural Epltoinlst. Practical Gate Faatener. A swing gate Is somewhat of a nui sance, Unless it is arranged with a fastener that will act as desired. The idea Illustrated is a simple one, as will be seen. Take a strip of one by four material and cut It of convenient length, as shown at figure 1. It must, however, be long enough to extend be yond the cross bar D and the upright piece at Figure 2, both of which pieces are double: that Is, one on either side of the gate. Two Iron pieces (b) are bolted to the boards 1 and 4, as shown, The fastener works In this manner: To unfasten, pull the board 1 to the left, which raises the end opposite 1 on account of the placing of b, and when released drops toward 1 and finally rests ou the board marked 3. A close study of the Illustration will show how simple the plan is, and how readily It may be put In operation on any swing ing gate, provided always the gate 1m properly hung and works smoothly. Indianapolis News. Cot Bone and Animal Food. Just the day the fowls are brought Into the house and confined to the run of a small yard they begin to pine for animal food which they had In abund ance on the range. It is this lack that Is at the bottom of the egg falling off rather than any other cause, as will be discovered, If one will take the trouble to look Into the matter. It must be understood, however, that ani mal food does not mean anything In the shape of meat one can get. There are plenty of meat scrapes on the market that are good enough for fer tilizer, but decidedly not of value for feeding poultry. If one can arrange with the local butcher to supply wh:it meat Is wanted for the fowls he will 1-avc no trouble provided he buys meat that Is not tainted and does not lay in a supply too large. Green bone an swers the same purpose to some ex tent, but. It Is hard to grind and must be ground fresh to be of value. With n small supply of animal food, green bone and green food of some kind one ought to have a good production of eggs throughout the winter, following liny plan of feeding that has a reason able amount of variety. How Warmth Kconomiaea Food.' Temperature has a great effect on fattening animals. Where farm stock are kept In cold houses It becomes necessary to Increase the quantity of food In order to maintain, the warmth of the body. In many cases pig feed ers pay little attention to this matter, and rather than go to the expense of providing warm stys for the accommo dation of their animals In winter they often adopt the ultimately more ex pensive plan of giving additional food to keep up the normal beat of the body. BW1NO GATE FASTENER. THE BIRDS' NEW WAYS. laataaees Where Ther Ckaaset Hah Ita to Meet New Conditions. Among the familiar examples of the changes In the habits of birds which have resulted from association with mankind are those of the chimney swift, or popularly named chimney swallow," says Forest and Stream, which formerly nested In hollows of trees and now in all settled regions uses the chimneys of houses, and the burn and cave swallows, the former originally nesting in caves and now building onHhe beams and rafters of. barns, and the latter, once a cliff dweller, now attaching its curious mud tenement under the shelter of . the eaves of barns and dwellings. In a series of Interesting notes In the Auk on the changes in the habits of birds, George F. Brenlnger records having observed In Mexico the old and the new way of swallow nesting. In the ancient town of Tuxpan he found numerous Instances of barn swallows nesting In the living rooms, and In the unsettled portion of the State of Chihuahua, a hundred- miles back from the railroad, on one of the large haciendas a region devoid of the time-honored adobes barn swal lows still nested on the rocks. Mr. Brenlnger notes other changes In the nesting habits due to the re moval of large timber. There is, for example, the Lucy's warbler, which normally nests In natural cavities In the trunks of trees, most commonly la the mesqu'.te; but In tha vicinity of Tucson, where the larger trees have been cut away, the warblers have in some Instances had recourse to build ing their nests in the abandoned nests of other species, in one case In the hole In a bank of earth, and most cu rious of all among the small limbs of a mesquite tree. In timbered countries the flickers cut' holes In the trunks 6T trees for their nests. In some sections where the large trees have been removed and the flickers have no longer such nesting sites, they have taken to the telegraph poles. "Along the railroad between Benson and Blsbee, Ariz.," writes Mr. Brenlnger, "the telegraph poles and fence posts show evidence of the work of woodpeckers, all by the Texan woodpecker. Throughout this region trees are few. and the woodpeckers are forced to use any thing that is dead aud large enough to permit of a nesting cavity being excavated in it Dead stalks of the century plant are often used. About Phoenix, Ariz., this woodpecker is common, timber suited to their needs Is still In abundance, and the poles along the railroads and elsewhere are untouched. In some parts of Mexico the work of woodpeckers on telegraph poles has reached the stage of a nui sance and a source of much outlay of money to keep the line in repair. Over a piece of road running between San Luis Potosl and Tamptco the nuisance has become so great that the manage ment has threatened to dip the poles In a solution of creosote." HOME HINT8 AND HELP3. Bill If re Fnrnlahed Theae Ont-of-the-Ordlnarr Onea. If your hands are badly chapped, wet them in warm water, rub them all over with Indian meal, then put on a coat of glycerine and keep them In your pockets for ten days. If you have no pockets convenient, Insert them in the pocket of a friend. An excellent liniment for toothache or neuralgia is made of sassafras, oil of organum and a half-ounce of tinc ture of capsicum, with half a pint of alcohol. Soak nine yards of red flan nel In this mixture, .wrap It around the head and then Insert the head In a haystack till death comes to your relief. To remove scars or Scratches from the limbs of a piano, bathe the limb in a solution of tepid water and tinc ture of sweet oil. Then apply a strip of court plaster, and put the piano out on the lawn for the children to play horse with. To soften water for household pur poses, put In an ounce of quicklime in a certain quantity of water. If It la not sufficient, use less water or more quicklime. Should the Immediate lime continue to remain deliberate, layhe water down on a stone and pound It with a baseball club. To give relief to a burn, apply the white of an egg. The yolk of the egg may be eaten or placed on the shirt bosom, according to the taste of the person. If the burn should occur on a lady, she may omit the last Instruc tion. To wash black silk stockings, pre pare a tub of lather, composed of te pid rain water and white soap, with a little ammonia. Then stand In the tub till dinner is ready. Roll in a cloth to dry. Do not wring, but press the water out. This will necessitate the removal of the stockings. To clean ceilings that have been smoked by kerosene lamps, or the fra grance from frkxl salt pork, remove the celling, wash thoroughly with bo rax, turpentine and rain water, then hang on the clothes line to dry. Af terward pulverize and spread over th pie plant bed for spring wear.