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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1906)
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER CHAS. P. & ADA E. SOULB, Pnb. , TOLEDO OREGON Most men say they Intend to do n lot of things they never intend to do. There Is a great difference letvepn a straight stand up flglit and a cov ardly baling. The cry of reform Is too often drowned by the vociferations of those who want the offices. Marshall Field was not the richest man In the United States. lie was merely the heaviest taxpayer. They are bringing out everything they can llnd against the Czar, lie Is now charged with writing poetry. King Leopold has wedded a mor ganatic wife. Leopold Isn't nearly as Interesting as Pittsburg's upper crust. The chorusless opera will doubtless be warmly welcomed by the wives of Pittsburg's young captains of Indus try. Mr. McOnll says he will start anoth er Insurance company. He has the capital nud everything but tho policy holders. Insurance experts say Chicago Is In danger of being burned up again. Per haps they have been noticing some cf the smoky chimneys. . "When war conies," says William of Germany, "I will lead tho army myself." This looks like a back-handed one for Nicholas of Itussla. There nro people of such sweet dis positions that they can see sermons in Htones and good In everything. An Omaha writer rises to defend the Bun Davis apple. Dr. Charles Eliot Norton believes useless persons should be put to death. Seems like a severe penalty to pass on men for sitting around whit tling store boxes' With a fine record in both the prize ring and the divorce courts, Mr. Fltz simmous will feel more confident than ever that he has special gifts for the theatrical profession. Secretary Bonaparte is determined to stop hazing at the naval academy. If he succeeds In doing it let us hope that he will generously place his form ula at the disiKisal of tho various col lego presidents. One British Conservative paper lays Balfour's defeat to fear of American cotton manipulators. A certain section of the English press lias not yet lost Its habit of saying: "When In doubt bhiuie the Yankees." A New York banker says there will be a terrible panic unless we hasten to secure an elastie currency. People who wear their money below the garter will, however, bo likely to cling to the opinion that our currency Is elastic enough. If the franking privilege cost the American people $10,000,000 last year It is time something were done to stop tho waste. This is n very large sum to pay, most of It to allow Congress men to firfst off on the people docu ments that most of them never read. There ought to be fewer documents and the country would profit both from its printing bill and Us postal bill. Almost anything Is likely to happen o us if we just sit around and wait. The man who kills himself because he has lost all Interest in life should always give himself six months more when he seems to be at the very end of his rope. In those six months It Is within the bounds of possibility that his mine may begin to pay dividends, that lie will llnd a ?10 gold piece on the sidewalk, that somelmdy will think he is a pretty good fellow and leave him $10,000 In his will, that he will see a good dog light or get a chance to beat the coal trust. Don't kill yourself. Walt! The need of more men In the army and In the navy Is attracting serious attention. General Mills, the chief of artillery, reports that, although nearly 44,000 otllcers and men are required to man the coast defenses of the Unit ed States, only a few more than 14, Ooo, of all ranks, are available. The need of more artillerists Is especially pressing, for modern guns are compli cated machines, a knowledge of which cannot be mastered In a moment. The same need Is felt In the navy. The present complement otllcers and men Included Is only about one-half what It should ne to man tne ships properly In time of war. Seven thousand addi tional enlisted men alone are reoulred. The need In the navy lucreuses, of course, whenever a new war vessel goes Into commission. Hardly any Institution' of the nation al government is of more Importance or should possess greater interest than the Census Bureau. Originally a census was merely a count of the number of people, hut graduully the scope of In quiry has been enlarged and extended, until now the bureau undertakes Inves tigations into a great variety of sub jects to obtain the facts which stu dents of economical. Industrial and so cial questions can make available In drawing useful conclusions. One rec ommendation of the director in his re cent report is of special Importance. He proposes that authority be given to him to collect judicial statistics. The facts to be ascertained are the number and character of crimes and misdemeanors that come to the attention of the courts, and the disposal of the cases. The offenses and the offenders would be classified, and thus valuable Informa tion would be obtained which would show the prevalence of crime at certain lieriods and In certain regions, and ex hibit the progress of the communities toward better observance of the law, and better enforcement of the law. Is Hetty Green happy? An eastern paper has devoted a page to a sympo sium of views on this question. Un fortunately, Hetty's own view was not Included. The consensus of conviction was that she Is an unhappy woman be cause she is so rich; that she Is to be pitied because she lives friendless and alone; that Blie Is mean because she wrangles with the grocer and washes her own clothing, and that slie cannot bo happy because she walks In "a vain shadow" and disquiets herself, heaps up riches and cannot toll who will gather them. The value of this decision depends entirely on the point of view. If a symposium of multl-millionnires should tell us that Hetty Green must tie unhappy because she is rich, we should be bound to believe them, for from actual experience they would know whereof they speak. But the fact Is that we hear precious few rich people complaining that riches bring unhapiilness. So It is quite safe for us to guess that some people may be lmppy, though rich, Just as some others may be unhappy, though poor. Is the scientist unhappy because he has made more discoveries than his fellows? Is the scholar unhappy because he knows more than tho average man? Then why must the one who devotes his acumen and zeal to business be unhappy bo cause they have achieved for him more than is gained by most? The money maker finds his Joy in his work, just as any other man does. Simply be cause ho has emancipated himself from all reasonable physical want, it does not fellow that he has got out of the game all the Joy there is in it for him. It is unquestionably true that happ'.. ness is not proportionate to riches. It seems to bo a law of nature that the men most endowed with the Instincts through which money is accumulated are deficient in the higher tastes and gononms impulses through which wealth may bo enjoyed. We look at wealth from widely different stand points. The money maker finds his en joyment in the making of It ; tho miser finds his in the possession of it; most of us find ours in the spending of it. Then who shall say that, as the word "happy" goes, the one who has money and does not enjoy spending It Is any less happy than we who enjoy spend ing it, but haven't got it? FAMOUS OLD POLISH PALACE. The old palace shown In the picture Is the former residence of the Polish sovereigns at Warsaw. On the bal cony of this historic building the last Polish king stood and saw tho Rus sians under Suwarrow massacre 30,000 of Ills countrymen. During the riots In Warsaw the vicinity of the palace has been the scene of several bloody encounters between the revolutionists and the Russian soldiery and much blood has been shed within the shadow of its ancient wails. Kot Complete. 'Tshaw !" disgustedly exclaimed young Mrs. Mommer. "This Is called an unabridged dictionary, but It cer tainly Isn't complete." "What's the matter with It?" de manded her husband, who was dandling the baby. "It doesn't tell mo how to write 'oot sunistootsums.' " Philadelphia Press. When a girl marries a preacher, she makes a match that pleases her mother a great deal better than It pleases her father. mm mw STRENGTH TO WIN. By Rev. C. Q. Wright. "And the scribe said unto him, Of a truth, Master, thou hast well said. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly he said unto him, Thou art not far from the Kingdom of God." Mark 12: 32-34. How quick Is the Great Teacher, to commend this lawyer, who had shown such religious discretion. And this ac tion may be taken as a passing exam ple of His distinctly benevolent atti tude toward mankind, which causes Him to see the best and brightest in men and to applaud it promptly. He ever speaks in the utmost praise and cheer that the truth permits; He says the kindest things that nre true the best and most that He can, and pro claims them on the spot. The Insight of divine compassion discovers new values in us and rich possessions tor us, and reveuls the wealth and dignity of humanity In such brotherly sympathy as to lift up the Good Master to the position of the healer and helper of the world. What profound encouragement there Is in the revelation of the Father's love, in the good conscience that Is born of the pardon of sins and the lifting of the load of guilt in the assurance "I am with you always." In the world's surging sea every dls splrited toiler finds Him standing on the near shore at dawn, calling solici tous inquiries and offering a helping hand. In beatitude, In parable of prodigal restored and of a stray sheep rescued; in exceeding great and pre cious promises, in glad doctrine by the smile of His countenance and the glory of His presence by every man ner of Incitement and comforting In ducement nud onleading, the glorious Redeemer strives unceasingly to cre ate a new heart and to renew a right spirit in every seeker after God and His kingdom. On His Hps are con stantly such words as "Be of good cheer," "Thy sins are forgiven," "Come." Instantly he commends Mary and ennobles her witli a universal and everlasting memorial. To the dying believer beside Him on the cross He made the astonishing declaration: "This day g'.ialt thou be with Me In Paradise." And when Peter confess ed Ills divinity He promptly exclaim ed, "Blesstd art thou, Simon." I suppose that His plan is to make men desire the kingdom of heaven and willing to try to get it by revealing God in a new and attractive form as Father of the people and sole sover eign of every honest man; to move the noble to attempt the upward way by I the beauty of His own character, and ito make the Journey possible and in viting by .the red tracks of His own feet. Hence, He calls: "Follow Me; the Son of Man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them"; and lie lays down the dual principle of di vine and human love as the Magna Charta of II is kingdom, and finds the text for His great teaching in the Ilosean scripture, "I will have mercy and not sacrifice." This tenderly affectioned Lord J stands as a high challenge to all the I brave and sincere, and His teaching makes it self-evident that we can I know what we ought to know, we can do what we ought to do, and we can bo what we ought to be; and if we I can we will this Is the heroic voice ! He has set Himself to nrouse in us. His graclousness Involves the co J operation of His friends, and In noth ing can His disciple be more useful and Christlike than In cultivating tho attitude of habitual approval and prompt commendation of the people wo know of sincere praise, of burden lifting and o giving of a ready "Well done" among the weary and heavy ' laden of this world. Yes, higher still, jlle challenges with the second of the 'greatest of the commandments, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." In the garden of life Ho stands with hands outstretched toward the child figure of humanity, tottering timidly to its feet or In its initial precarious steps, smiling npproval and calling tenderly, "Come unto Me I'll catch you if you fall.' I THE PIOUS PRODIGAL. I By Henry F. Copo. I "Now his elder son was in the field. I A"1 lie was angry and would 'not come in." Luke 15: 25-28. Perhaps the pulpit will always feel ! an obligation to berate the young man who wandered Into the far country and spent his substance In riotous living, and to be silent regarding the brother I who sulked and complained at the fa mm , ther's rejoicing when the prodigal re turned. But the average man or wom an cannot but feel a good deal more liking for the reckless wanderer than for the respectable stay-at-home. This would be a mad world with nothing but prodigals of the wild, loose type in it; but it would be a sad, bleak world if filled with these elder brothers. They are the cold blooded, steel-eyed, respectable young men, the Ideals of the banker, the am bitious mother and the wise young woman. They save their money, walk decorously, speak softly and acquire a reputation for respectability. But somehow children will have nothing to do with that type of man. 1 Hearts turn from him because his heart is paralyzed. This is the con stant danger to this model young man. this flawless specimen of the Ideal ac cording to the cold &$ world. lie is ' as flawless as artificial ice, as correct ns an automatic model. His life is but a negation, its whole object be ing not to do what others might disap prove. If the one lad had wandered far away in wild lusts, the other was equally a prodigal wandering In tho desert of cold greed and selfishness. The man who seems to sit at home may wander farthest from the fa ther's heart. No matter how precisely a man may appear to conform to the external laws of religion, he is far away, lost and alone, if he has spent in selfishness or lost through disuse the power to love his brother, if in this he has departed from the essen tial and eternal law of religion. . Full many a man preserves his re spectability at the price of his real re ligion. No mutter how nearly ideal the life may seem Ip be, a man Is far from the kingdom if love be not the great law of his life. And when he gets so holy that he would rather see his sin-stained brother go down in the mire than soli his immaculate hands by helping him up, lie is not likely to realize that the voice which whispers approval in his ear Is not that of the Most High, but of another. The hardest sinners to reach are the ones who are euswathed In their own smug self-satisfaction, the very ones for whom the sting in the end of this parable was intended. In rapt con templation of their own perfections they have lost all Bense of others, or at best they have thought of them only as a fitting foil and background against which to display their own well-tended virtues. The way of the prodigal Is dark and to be avoided; but when he came to know his sius, with broken heart he hated them, while the Pharisee cannot repent, for his heart Is atrophied with self-uppro-batlou. The man who thinks only of himself, even though his thought be the noble one of the perfection of life and char acter, is taking the way that leads far from perfection. The development of the most perfect life, the attaining of the highest and most worthy selfhood conies only through forgetting self in service for our fellows. They only find life who are willing to lose it; they find character who are willing to lose It if only they may do some good and help some other one. lie who in his desire for rectitude loses his interest in his fellows, his love for his wandering brother, is him self a prodigal, a wanderer from brotherhood, and therefore from his father. He is out of all sympathy with his father's longing for the return of the lost and shut out from Ills plans for bringing even the worst ones back to Himself. It is self that takes us away from the good, whether we wan der afar or abide at home; It is love, love for the Father, for the old home where the best things and the best thoughts arc, and love for one another that brings us back to the Father's face and the son's rightful place. Short Meter Sermons. Light from above is for the path be low. llcr cannot find wisdom who will not worship. The flowers of triumph are watered by tears. The shepherd's crook does Lot make the crooked sheep. No man climbs to the Father by treading on his brother. Stealing sorrow is as much a sin as acquiring stolen joys. Clothes do not make the man, though they often mark his mind. When genorosity Is a surglcnl opera tion it Is often fatal to the patient. No man is brave until he has over come the fear of being culled a cow ard. Many things may keep you from the other triumphs of life, but only self ishness can keep you from the victory of love. 'FAMILY FORTUNES OF AMERICA. Croemis Had Only a Tithe of the - WeallU of Some 31 lllionnirea. The great fortunes that have sprung up so amazingly In this country during recent decades to-day, In the opinion of many serious thinkers, constitute a menace to our national well-being, says Cleveland Mofiett in writing of "The Shameful Misuse of Wealth,- in "Suc cess Magazine," Without these great fortunes there would be no reign of luxury In America, no Haunting of feasts and follies, no riot of extrava gance; with them we may expect all tue evils that have In previous civiliza tions attended upon enormous riches. And many of these evils, ns we have already seen, are actually with us. It is admitted that we nre the rich est people In the world to-day the richest people the world has ever seen. The vaunted wealth of Croesus is esti mated at only eight million dollars, but there are seventy American estates that averag thirty-five millions each. As showing the rapid growth of Indi vidual fortunes in this country there is Interest in a list of rich men printed in 1855, according to which New York City at that time boasted only twenty-eight millionaires. And a pamphlet published some yenrs earlier says that In 1845 Philadelphia could show only ten estates valued at a mill ion or more, the richest being that of Stephen Girard, which reached seven millions. In contrast to which In 1802 there were over two hundred million aires In Philadelphia. As to New York City, the number of Its millionaires, according to best In formation, Is over two thousand, while the number of millionaires in the Uni ted States is at least five thousand or half the total number In the world. There Is one family alone, at the head of which stands the richest and most powerful man in the world, John D. Rockefeller, and the wealth of this family Is estimated at a thousand mill ion dollars, a sum so huge that the human mind quite fails to grasp It ; a sum so huge that If at the birth of Christ Mr. Rockefeller had begun mak ing a dollar a minute and had let all these dollars accumulate day and night for all these centuries, he would not yet. In 1900, have amassed a thousand million dollars. And If Mr. Rockefeller should today turn this wealth Into gold coin and take it out of tho coun try, say Into Canada, he would carry across the border three times ns mucli gold as would then remain In the Uni ted States. Nor would he carry it himself, for the weight of It would be one thousand seven hundred and fifty tons. And If he loaded It on the backs of porters, each man bearing his own weight In solid gold (say 150 pounds), it would require twenty-three thousand men to move it And If they walked ten feet apart the line of them would reach forty-four miles and would oc cupy fifteen hours in passing a given point None of which takes any ac count of the daily interest on this for tune, which Interest If paid In gold, would require the strength of seven men to carry It, for It would weigh a thousand pounds. Such are the riches of a single family ! FORMS OF LEAVES. Theory to Explain OntliueCrltlctNed by Ilotanixt. It was 1 nevitable that a theory should be thought out to account for the varied forms and outlines of leaves says the London Spectator. That which has found favor with many !s as follows: The "simple," large, "un cut" forms are said to be those which grow at a height and lie nearest to the sun. The elaborately "cut" leaves and leaflets (such as those of ferns) are de clared to belong in the main to plants of lower growth, which only enjoy the broken sunlight that struggles through the simpler foliage of the higher plants. This is Ingenious; but It hard ly corresponds with fact, as the read er may discover by noting the leaves growing in any Euglish thicket. Take, for example, the foliage hanging over the thickly overgrown bed of a brook. Above will be the leaves (quite small) of the whitethorn and of the maple, 'the latter being the larger. Below these very possibly will be seen grow ing the large leaved wild guelder rose, the laurel and the bramble, and below these again the dock leaf, the broad butter burr and the arum. In Euglish woods and thickets it would be difficult to lay down any rule which would hold good generally for the place occupied by plants with leaves of different sizes. But the the ory mentioned above does fit to some exteut tho facts in the position of grasses In a hayfield. There the small er leaved pieces certainly do grow at the bottom, whore the tiny meadow vetchlings and hop clovers and ladles' fingers, and other minor and sweet scented plants, of which the best hay is made, hide their minute and finely "cut" leaves among the bases of the taller grasses. A Trifle Mixed. Sister now many times did you dance with Miss Flirt at the ball? Brother Only once, and that one we at out in the conservatory. Baltimore American.