LINCOLN CM! LEADER
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TOLEDO ORJEGOP
All the world loves a lover loves
to Josh him, that Is. . -
Why Is It that the higher prices an
author gets, the poorer stories he
writes?
To obtain real parlor-like football.
future contests might be referred to
Ihe Hague tribunal.
Now that the chorus girls have form
ed a union, will the "Johnnies" have to
comblue for protection?
The Russians are Inventive enough
to discover the merits of the universal
strike as a political weapon.
If a Congressman wants to appear
peculiar, he will not Introduce a single
bill to regulate railway rates. .
In selecting his future "young part
ners" Carnegie should remember that
boys will sometimes be old boys.
In his capacity as a physician Dr.
Osier seems to have been present at
an alarming number of deathbeds.
It Is rather doubtful whether the
rimihle-hpflried eagle or the red flag Is
the present national standard of Rus-
Bla.
It has been nearly a century since a
Russian Czar said to an English diplo
mat: "There is a sick man lu Europe;"
and Turkey is still alive.
By abolishing free transportation the
railroads will sidetrack some politi
cians who are deadheads in more than
one sense.
Mr. Root has an idea that the con
sular service could be used to better
advantage than as a refuge for played
out politicians.
A statement of the steps to be taken
to prevent a recurrence of slugging at
Annapolis, under the "code," would be
grateful to the public.
Only twenty boys were killed 'and
205 badly maimed in the recent foot
ball season, yet there are some people
who think the rules ought to be re
formed. While the gift made for President
Roosevelt is the first gold heart Colo
rado has ever given, she has in times
past distributed quite an assortment of
marble hearts to other statesmen.
There Is a Knlogeropoulous In the
new Greek cabinet. Probably he Is a
cousin, several syllables removed, of
the celebrated James J. Fappatheodor
okoummountourgeotopoulous of Chica
go. The hazers must go, and the sooner
they go the better It will be for every
body but the hazers. It will not make
much difference to the world what
happens to them after they are put
out
It wits something of a shock to hear
that a man who could earn Jimnile
Hyde's enormous salary In the insur
ance business was not regarded as
having the Intellectual equlpmeut need
ful for an ambassador.
Dr. Osier, late of Baltimore and now
reglus professor of medicine at Ox
ford, appeared on the same platform
with Mr. Joseph Chamberlain recently.
According to the professor's pet theory
Joseph ought to have been asphyxiated
lome thirty years ago.
The announcement that Columbia
University has decided to abolish foot
ball after this year will cause the foot
ball world to sit up straight In aston
ishment. It demonstrates better than
anything else the degree to which pub
lic condemnation of the game as now
played has gone. Well may the advo
cates of the gridiron game cry aloud,
"Reform, reform or we perish!"
Bad water Is said to kill more sol
diers than are slain by bullets, and It
Is not Improbable that If statistics
were obtainable they would show that
more Bailors perish In accident of one
kind of another including shipwreck
than are lost In battle. Disasters
like that which overtook the Benning
ton are by no means rare and their
victims aggregate a great number of
men. When tho hazards of the sea
are added to the peril of explosion of
magazines and steam boilers the sailor
takes almost as many chances In peace
as in war.
All over the United States men are
talking- of graft and grafting and graft
ers. They don't have to explain what
they mean; everybody knows. Web
ster may be Ignorant of the words, In
the new American use which makes
them so useful; the Century may ac
knowledge them not; It Isn't of the
slightest consequence. They are fresh
from the people's mint, they were
needed, they pass current and they
have come to stay. Only the other day
the Interdenominatlon conference in
New York refused to weaken one of
its resolutions by striking out "graft"
and putting "dishonesty" in Its place.
"But it Is a slang term," objected Rev.
II. II. Oberly of New Jersey. What
If It Is? A word that "makes good"
In the common speech of to-day will
be in the dictionaries to-morrow.
Wisconsin and California have each
established a "legislative reference li
brary," a department of the Legisla
ture In charge of experts In finance,
law, economics, history. Its function
Is to furnish to the legislators Impar
tial information bearing upon any
bills, enactments or measures which
the lawmakers have under considera
tion. If a legislative committee is con
sidering a bill, the librarian finds out
what has been doue In other States
and other nations, discovers all the le
gal relations of the problem, and helps
to phrase the bill so that it will work
If It becomes law. Thus much blun
dering, much unnecessary legislation,
many evils that result from hasty, in
experienced legislation will be checked.
The courts are always struggling with
Ill-phrased, ambiguous, contradictory
laws. Indeed, the Judiciary depart
ments waste much time gathering up
loose ends left by the legislative bodies.
The Idea of the reference library is not
to interfere with or Influence legisla
tion, but to assist It, clarify It, and re
lute It at it3 Inception to th Wnl ex
perience of the world which It must
encounter later. This work Is some
what like the duties of the British
treasury, counsel and government
draftsmen, to whom bills are submitted
for phrasing and collating before they
are presented to Parliament for final
vote.
"Marriage and home ties are detri
mental to the artist's work," says the
head of the French Academy of Fine
Arts. "One must choose between the
married and the Intellectual life,"
maintains a woman official of the Uni
versity of Chicago. There would be
no sound if there were no ears to hear,
and likewise art and literature would
be without value If there was no pos
terity which had Inherited literary and
artistic appreciation. Man's work Is
but half done If he gives only art and
no artists, only books and no writers
to the world. Intellectual strength
and artistic temperament must be per
petuated In blood as well as on paper
and canvas. No muse, however allur
ing, Is as powerful to spur a man on to
great effort as the clinging dependence
and loving faith of wife and children.
He works best who works for someone
else that loves him. Love Is the great
source of power throughout all the
universe. Harriet Beecher Stowe
rocked the cradle or made bread be
tween the lines of "Uncle Tom's Cab
In," yet it stirred a nation as few
books have. What artist may decide
that his art has reached the highest
polqt of perfection; that it is the ex
ponent of highest Inspiration and
greatest possible skill? Mountains do
not rise abruptly from the plains. He
may be only one of the foothills In a
chain, which, if unbroken, will at last
blend with the sky. That glorious
crown of horticultural art the Amer
ican beauty rose did not bloom in the
fullness of its deep-hearted loveliness
on the humble parent wild bush. Gen
erations of patient pruning and trim
ming, of preserving the best and cast
ing out the worst, of combining and
thus strengthening the fine qualities,
lie between the simple, dainty, wild
rose and the mature, perfect American
Beauty. And the end may not yet be.
So It is with men. It took seven gen
erations of ministers to produce an
Emerson, and It Is written of Ra
phael's father that he might rank as a
great artist had he not been so unfor
tunate as to have a son who outclassed
him. The vital truth is larger than
literature and art alone. Goethe sound
ed the deeper and broader worth of a
man when he said: "Whoever has
best served his own people In his time,
he has lived for ail time." Men be
come Immortal through their children
more often than through their work.
Hot Shot.
"Hello!" said the country editor, by
way of greeting, "what are you filing
that saw for?"'
"Cause It's dull," retorted the
grouchy old farmer; "what'd ye
s'pose?"
"Ah! do you always file things that
are dull?"
"Wal, no; I never file that ding
batted paper o' yourn." Catholic
Standard and Times.
Treuherom Memory.
"I have such a wretched memory.
Now I -have an appointment with my
dentist to-day and I've Just thought of
It."
"Well, you've remembered It in
time."
"But, blame it, I wanted to forget
It!" Cleveland Leader.
The good things of life grow slow,
but it is different with bills and scandal.
THE DARK ENIGMA OF LIFE.
By Rev. W. G. Elmslie, D. D.
Text. St. John xl.
The rulers of the Jews at Jerusalem
had resolved on Christ's death, and
the mass of the people sympathized
with them. The Master's life had
been threatened by a popular out
burst. When Jesus received the mes
sage He behaved In a very strange
fashion. Apparently He Just did noth
ing, but went on with His teaching
and preaching.
Christ said the end is first of all
death, but that Is not the termination.
Through death sickness, struggle of
doubt and faith, should end in the
glory of God. He meant this; in the
preparation of His life and His death
the death and resurrection of Lazarus
held a central position. It was the
turning point, the thing that determin
ed His crucifixion on Calvary. That
tremendous miracle compelled the rul
ers of Jerusalem to resolve on and
carry out His death. That miracle of
Lazarus' resurrection gave to the faith
of tue disciples and of Chrifet's follow
ers a strength of clinging attachment
that carried them through the eclipse
of their belief when they saw Him
die on Calvary.
Now, what would you say? Was it
cruel of Christ to allow, His friend
Lazarus, His dear friends Mary and
Martha, to go through tt period of sus
pense, of anxletly, of sickness, of
death, and of the grave, that they
might do one of the great deeds in
bringing in the world's Redeemer? Oh,
men and women, if God be wise, and
if God be great, then must it not be
that somehow or other the structure
of this world is the best for God's end,
and our tears and partings and calami
ties but incidents lu-Jhe grand cau
palgn that shall end in the resplendent
glory of heaven?
Death cannot ultimately be an evil,
since it is universal the co'wumma
tlon, climax, crown, of every human
life. Ah, if we had the grander ma
jesty of soul to look at it from God's
altitude, we should call death, not a
defeat, but a victory, a triumph. I
think sometimes that If death did not
end these lives of ours, how weary
they would get. Think of it to live
on forever in the sordidness, in the lit
tleness, In the struggle, the pain, the
sin of this life of ours. Oh, we need
that angel of death to come in, and
now and then stir the pool of our fam
ily life, that there may be healing lu
It, that there may be blesisng In it
Death, holding the hand of God
through it, deuth, to those that stand
by and see the sweetness of human
love, the triumph of faith celestial, has
a grandeur In it, like Christ's doubt
creating features and elements of its
external impediment death becomes
God's minister. It is going home to
one's Father.
AMBIGUOUS CHRISTIANS.
By Rev. G. B. F. Hallock, D. D.
Text. "Ye are our epistle, written
in our hearts, known and read of all
men." II. Corinthians ill.: 2, 3.
The root meaning of the word "am
biguous" Is "to wander about with ir
resolute mind." It has come to mean
in general use the state of being doubt
ful or uncertain, particularly as to sig
nification. But people, as well as
words or epistles, can be ambiguous.
The contrasts between their words and
their acts, their professions and their
conduct tbelr beliefs and their char
acter may be so great that we really
cannot make them out, our thought of
them Is doubtful and uncertain, to the
signification of their lives It is dlffl
tult to assign a real, plain, definite
meaning. It is a sad fact that there
are so many so-called Christians who
must be placed in this class.
One thing is certain, either you are
a Christian or you are not a Chris
tian. If you are not, then you show
plainly that you know your duty and
deliberately choose to do It not If you
are, then, like Peter, you are deliber
ately denying the very Saviour you
love and In whom you hope. If you
are not, then you have been In the gar
den with Christ, have listened to his
teachings, have heard and understood
the way of life, have come to know
the value of eternal life, wish your
friends, your children and all dear to
you to accept this great salvation, and
yet for yourself you are deliberately
rejecting Christ This is certainly
sinning against great light If you
are a Chr'stlan, then you have been in
the garden with Christ; you do love
blm; you have beard his gracious
words; he is your best friend and
your only hope of eternal life, and yet
like Peter, you are either afraid or
ashamed to confess that you ever
knew the Saviour. You surely can
not take refuge In the thought of con
fessing Christ by your life, while you
are warming yourself at the lire with
his enemies, or while standing at the
door without ou may be a disciple,
but while you stay in this position you
are denying Christ. The very best
that can be said of you is tnat you
are an ambiguous disciple. Like Peter,
you must be quit, to repent.
Be no longer, I pray you, be no
longer an ambiguous Christian from
lack of an open confession of Christ.
"With the heart man belleveth unto
righteousness, and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation."
Confess him. "Let the redeemed of
the Lord say so."
THE CROMWELL OF ISRAEL. '
By Rev. Samuel Horton.
Text "For the time would fail me
t tell of Jephthah." Hebrews
xi.:32.
Jephthah's life was a tragedy and a
triumph. From his birth he was an ill
nsed child. He came into the world
unwanted. Jephthah had a hard time
of it In Gllead's household. His fath
er's son treated him vilely. The Iron
entered his soul very early. They made
him their drudge, the bntt of tholr wit,
and scapegoat for their wrong doing,
until at length he ran away. Better
the coldness of the world than the
mockery of a loveless home.
The lad who ran irom home to push
his own fortunes into the world had
the making of a kingly man in him.
He had a chieftain's brain under his
hat, and a noble heart under his coat.
He had grit and courage, and in the
day of adversity turned his fuce to the
north wind with a brave heart He
was of the stuff out of which the
world's pathfinders are made. He gath
ered to him all sorts of wild men like
himself, the outcasts of society; ad
venturers; runaways, vagabonds, and
broken men; and out of this unpromis
ing material Jephthah moulded an ar
my that was well nigh Invincible. He
proved himself to be a military genius
of the first rank.
"We cannot" says Carlyle, "look,
however Imperfectly, upon a great
man without gaining something by
him." And this we gain from our
study of this Hebrew hero, that the
despised child, homeless and friend
less, may be the most valuable asset
the nation possesses, that to neglect
such a child Is to sin against the fu
ture, and that pluck, energy and faith
may set at defiance the most discour
aging circumstances. Among self-made
men Jephthah has an honored place.
To all young men who need a nerve
tonic I commend this history. Every
thing Is to the man who dares. Na
ture's nobles may have to wait for
their birthright, but It will surely
come. God can do nothing for the
ran who sits and whines, but ,wlll
turn the very stars out of their courses
to help him who is worthy. The king
ly soul will come to his crown, though
his throne be his own tombstone.
Then, if it must be so, God and I
against the world. Time and eternity
are on the side of the hero.
Short Meter Sermons.
Good cheer chokes many a fear.
You are never rich enough to spurn
love.
Sacrifice gives a heavenly grace to
any gift
The glowing vision comes in lowly
service.
The salt of the earth will have.no
sour virtues.
True charity knows nothing of ab
sent treatment
Angels are always singing where
love is working.
God has only one school for charac
ter, that of dally life.
The happiness reaped to-day depends
on that sown yesterday.
1 There Is no hiding from the sub
poenas of the court of conscience.
Tears in the eyes are often tele
scopes that bring heaven near at hand.
There is no happiness in all this
world if there Is none in the heart
The outgoing of the heart to another
means the incoming of heaven to your
self. There is something wrong with the
heart when it hurts you to see others
happy.
"fi'ou cannot tell much about the
breadth of a man's mind by the width
of his mouth.
Some men think they can put cash
in one pocket and conscience in the
other, and by keeping the left hand ig
norant of the deeds of the right Uv
happy ever after.
THESE TWINS ARE 80.
Host of the Live of the Brooks
Brothers Spent Afloat.
Ezekiel and Ephralm Brooks recent
ly celebrated their 80th birthday they
are twins by pulling a load of lob
sters in a boat to New London and re
turned home the same day the dis
tance they covered being nine miles,
with rough water prevailing. Born on
the shore of Connecticut and winning
a livelihood by hard tasks at sea, the
Brooks boys never knew what failure
of physical strength meant and to-day
they take as great hazards as ever they
did in early life, thinking nothing ot
dangers.
From their earliest days the broth
ers possessed a great desire to follow
the water and as boys they shipped as
cooks on fishing smacks and followed
along until they became full-fledged
fishermen attached to the Jordan cove
fleet They fished at Block Island and
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EZLKIEL AND EI'HBAIM DltOOKS.
Nantucket for cod and at Montauk :
Point for sea bass, in the summer and .
, early autumn, taking porgles from Pe-
conic Day, xong Island, and mackerel
at Sandy Hook with hook and line, car
rying their catches alive In wells to
Fulton Market, New York. When the
halibut fishing began to Interest fish
ermen the brothers went to George's
bank, making successful trips in a
schooner smack. With the building of
the railroad through to New York the
smacks shipped catches by rail and
eventually the old fishermen went out
of business and fishing for profit there
declined.
The brothers have gone through life
shoulder to shoulder and tney will be
twins in everything that has to do with
their lives to the end of their days.
Utica Globe.
The art of irrigation is, no doubt, a
source of grave speculation to the un
initiated; how thousands of acres of
growing crops can be successfully wa
tered by artificial means mnst puzzle
a good deal those whose experiments
In similar direction do not reach be
'yond the watering of potted house
plants, a bed of flowers ia-a garden
from a watering pot, or the Irrigation
of a front yard by means of a lawn
sprinkler. There are 8,000,000 acres of
land in Colorado susceptible of cultiva
tion. Forty per cent of this area is now
under actual cultivation. To cover this
Immense area with water from the ir
rigating ditches two or three times over
during a single season Is something
of a task. Colorado land, to be well
Irrigated, should have as much water,
put upon It during the successive Irri
gations as would cover it one foot deep
were it put upon the land all at once.
In most cases the land and water
are conveyed in the same deed or by
tne same person, In which case the wa
ter would have been previously attach
ed to the land and the land would be
under cultivation. In a few canals of
the West water Is rented to the land
owner, but the Instances of this sort
are so few that It is hardly worth
while to refer to them. Upon the pur
chase of a right the purchaser usually
becomes an owner in the canal. A
contract usually provides that a certain
amount should be charged each water
right owner in proportion to the water
he buys, for the maintenance of the
property and the canal company guar
antees that this assessment will not
be over a certain amount during Its
management. This cTIarge for main
tenance takes the water from the riv
er and delivers to the headgate of the
water-right owner's lateral, pays the
salary of ditch-riders and pays for
breaks, repairs and general mainte
nance. The water-right owner then
takes charge of the water and con
veys It through his lateral, or the lat
eral in which he has an interest, t
his land. Denver Field and Farm.
The baby is sick, mother Is up all
night; children get sick, mother is
up all night; father gets sick, mother
is up all night; but who is up when
mother gets sick? Does anyone
know of it but the Lord?
About the quickest way for a young
man to win a girl's love Is to bribe her
father to object to him.
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