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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1906)
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER CHAi. F. ABA E. SOULE. Pat. TOLEDO. .OREGON The story of Col. Mann's business misfortunes was decidedly "touching." There need be no fears (or litera ture. England put out C.S17 new books last year. "Paints In Society" is the title or a new book. It Is not descriptive of New York's 400, however. A man cannot have too much money, enys Uussell Sage. But he can have too little character; and there's the rub. Spanking is urged as a cure for hood- Uimism. To be effective the remedy must be administered before the hood lum arrives. The kaiser, who rules by divine right, has no fear of the socialists or their plots, but he keeps a good sized army constantly within call. A writer wants to know whether cooking makes wrinkles in a woman's face. Well, certain styles of cooking make wrinkles in men's faces. A New York judge says that the luw's delays, so much complained of, have their compensations. The l"gal fraternity has always thought so. Our friends the doctors may not ad mit professionally that they do occa sionally "give drugs whose ultimate tendency Is to shorten the life of the patient;" but M. Fallleres, the new president of Trance, has been in public office and more or less near the head of the re public for about thirty-five years. He Is 05 years of age. Russia has figured out that the war with Japan cost her $1,500,000,000. The tax-payer may now prepare to carry h soldier or two on his shoulders for the rest of his natural life. A woman never loses Interest in the man she might have married. If he succeeds she prides herself on the fact that Bhe could have had him. If he fails she is equally proud of the fact that Bhe had foresight enough to turn him down,' Servants of Justice may also be serv ants of charity. A New York marshal who went to evict a family from rooms for which the rent was long uupalc found the parent sick in bed and the older children trying to earn a living. He pocketed the writ, started a sub scription for the benefit of the family, and relieved their immediate difficulty. Etiquette Is a mask, a barrier, a cloak, a disguise, a pretense, a lie; It enables us to hide our real characters from each other. It Is acquired; It ;oines from the head ; courtesy is spon taneous, It comes from the heart. The first has as much In common with the tccond as has law with justice, medi cine with hygiene or theology with auctlty. The man who falls to appreciate the value of recreation Is making a great mistake. Attention to business and de votion to duty ore essential to success In this strenuous age, but that fact Is In Itself the most eloquent plea for a season of rest; a breathing spell so that the high tension methods of to day will not wear us out before our time. If the every-day pace was more moderate there would be less urgent need of rest. It Is the pace we arc keeping time to in business In this age that makes a vacation Imperative. Ex haustion results in not only tempor ary but a permanent loss of vital force. The rest period is often the profit period In a busy man's life. A combination of wealth, notoriety nnj loose living makes some of our socletr neonle iiociilliirlv vnlneriihle. Their reckless dissipation Is curiously accomuanled with a craven dreiul of exposure. A plutocracy bag not yet dared to assume the prerogatives of on arlstoerucy of birth. The result Is that, with a standard of living no higher than that of England and the continent and a much greater fear of criticism, our plutocracy is singularly helpless before the assaults of black mailers of all degrees. Blackmailing has, In fact, become so ridiculously easy on occupation that we seriously doubt If any gentleman of good intel lectual parts should condescend to pur sue It so long as the higher forms of burglary and forgery still offer a careei open to talent A year or so ago the world heard that the Chinese civil service wag to be reorganized on a modern basis. The world thought It a good Joke. Still later the news went forth that the old lady was taking Bteps preparatory to cttlng up parliamentary government SU11 the world laughed. Now comes the word that the first mentioned re form Is actually in operation. The chll service examinations for this year deal not with Chinese classics, but with the most practical of live problems. Candidates will be asked, among other things, to state how the resources of China can best be developed; to de scribe the educational systems of west ern countries ; to speculate on the bear ing of the Siberian railway and the I'unama canal upon Chinese Interests; to explain the meaning of free trade and protection and to describe Herbert Spencer's views on sociology. A year ago a man who would govern a prov ince, run a railroad or tend a draw bridge had only to know his Confucius. The contrast Is startling. The testimony In the Annapolis haz ing cases reveals a queer little world whose unwritten luws seem to be de rived entirely from false sentiment and false standards of conduct. In this world some of the diminutive and youthful citizens are encouraged to cul tivate a self-iuiportauce that would strain the ribs of an elephant to the breaking point. Others receive fully as much encouragement to cultivate a curious pride in their own self-abasement One short illustration will show how honor works In bringing about these magnificent results. There Is a law that a first class man may order a fourth class man under the table, and this high privilege Is practically ex clusive. The only relaxation of the rule Is that the first class man may delegate his power to an Inferior of an intermediate class. In common prac tice, then, the rite Is performed with the first class man as chief priest and with a mixture of horseplay and a sensitiveness to the dictates of honor that absolutely defies Btage burlesque. Fun is separated from the grand, gloomy and peculiar by a hair's breadth. When the proceedings are questioned, when the regular laws that are supposed to govern the academy are Involved, honor calls for every sac rifice to prevent their operation, for evasions and lies, for submission to Indignity and injustice, for revenge and intolerable cruelty. Evidently this lit tle world needs reforming. But It Is not so ridiculous or contemptible as to be without Instruction for the larger world outside, where false values have been accepted from time Immemorial and silly and positively bad conven tional Ideas have wrought Incalculable Injury, In one of his spirited essays on the soclul problem Huxley made a remark which has become historic. If, he said In effect, he thought that our Industrial system, with Its features of unemploy ment, poverty, inequality and Injustice, could not be Improved he would beg that some friendly planet might collide with our globe and put an end to Its existence. But Huxley believed In the possibility, the certainty, of great social Improvements and was willing to dis pense with the services' of friendly planets. Not so, apparently, Miss Crozler, a Philadelphia "sociologist,1 who, baring worked herself thin and shouted herself hoarse trying to alio! lsh misery and squalor, now demands In sheer despair "proper authority" to administer chloroform to poor, starring neglected children that she cannot sere. While waiting for the friendly planet to solre the problem of adult poverty and destitution, Miss Crozler would mercifully administer relief on her own account to juvenile sufferers and victims. It Is not likely that so ciety will make use of Miss Crozler's heroism and self-sacrifice. It will prob ably refuse to see In the slaying of children a grand or welcome, remedy for poverty. It will proceed on the old-fashioned doctrine that the object of-all humanitarian endeavor is to pro mote life, liberty and happiness, not ti diminish unhapplness by destroying life. Whatever the "higher hysteria" may say, the sociology of healthy com mon sense will stick to life and to the processes and remedies that slowly tend to Increase and enrich life. As to the revived discussion of that old subject, the propriety of gently ending tho lives of the incurably dlsensed at lwist "after a certain period of ""-uelatlng pain and ogony"-ond the "open-wiy u ...m.uni 01 pmus IL'Ie theoretical argument In favor of the proposition will dispose of the Bhn pie, practical difficulty repeatedly point ed out that no right-thinking person will nssume the responsibility of de ciding when disease Is Incurable or In sanity hopeless, and of putting a hu man being to death at the command of a rery Imperfect "science." The revolt of Instinct and conscience against the proposal, a revolt which would bo man Ifested in every concrete cose, Is the obstacle In the way. It is unsurmount- able. Good Place for the Stunt. Tramp Kin I have a lit on your lawn? I feel It comln' on me. Kind Lady Go around to the tennis court It needs rolling. New York Mall. One Is beginning to acquire wisdom when he realizes that he Isn't the whole show. mm mm. f- 11 DUTY OF SELF-DISCIPLINE. By Rev. Richard Hamilton. He was subject unto them, Luke 2:51. Atter the birth of Christ silence falls upon His li.e. Ills boyhood has no record. Ills youth not a vestige of his tory. Once in all those years we see Illm teaching In the temple, and then Mary's voice calls lilm home. He goes back to Nazareth, and the story of His life up to Ills thirtieth year is written where? Nowhere uion earth save In the heart of his mother. ' Why this silence? Jesus was pre paring for His great work In the ob scurity of a poor, mean cottage, finding therein and in His relations toward two of his own creatures full Scope for the exercise of every virtue. He did this to lay deep the foundations of a school where men might learn to sanc tify themselves, as He had done the Bf-tmnl of flip f'hrlstlnn home. Christ chose to spend thirty years out of Ills limited thirty-three In duties and simple labors of apparently a com monplace and trivial order. He elected to live in this manner In order to prove emphatically the most lofty spiritual ity. Simple means are these, and well within the reach of all mankind ; nor an any man complain of want of op portunity In the attainment of perfee- ion, since it Is his birthright, coming to him at the cradle and at his mother's knee. It is here at the root of things that man must begin his true work In ac quirement of solid virtue; here in the practice of homely acts of patience and ourtesy, of charity and good example. It Is the business of every man to do good. Lofty projects for the bet terment of the human race are all very well. It is the natural tendency of the young heart and of the lover of Justice to strive to right the wrongs of the downtrodden, and shout to redress all grievances. These are the outpourings of uncorrupt human nature and should be preserved at all cost. But the more difficult attainments, such as self-control and' self-purification, must take the lead, else the audacious reformer brings down upon his head a merited con tempt Lip service without fair prac tice accompanying It bears not fruit. When a man Is well-nigh perfect as a man can lie, then, and only then, Is he fit to take up the battle ax and cleave successfully with it He that has filled his Immediate In ner circle of life with the light of his graciousness and has made the hearts under his roof to sing with gladness may justly and confidently turn to the great universal family and enter upon, tue world of combat equipped in an armor that lias been tempered and forged at his own domestic fires. No man ever came Into this world with so full a knowledge and keeu a consciousness of the needs of suffering humanity as did Christ, the all-wise. No one has loved with as tender a love or had greater power to conquer the enemy untrained and unprepared than He, since He needed no apprenticeship. Yet how did He act? Did He rush out unprepared,. .or. did He choose to make Himself a living example? The scripture explains It In these words: "He was subject unto them, Subject to Joseph, the carpenter, and to a young ond almost childlike mother; subject to the conditions of a lowly life and such everyday duties as fnll to the lot of all men content to do all things, both great and small, but to do them perfectly, WHAT IS ITP By Kev. John McNeill. Text Exodus xvl. You remember how for forty years God rained bread from heaven sent down the manna. This 10th chapter describes how the manna came. The manna came in answer to a univer sal murmuring. They sold, Would to God we had died In the land of bond age. We ate flesh to the full, but you hare brought us out. God's service begins to mean disappointment, bitter ness, emptiness, where Egypt was full; leanness whore Egypt was fat; barrenness and drought where Egypt, at any rate, had something for our hunger and something for our physical appetite and need. My friends, when I am on the subject of murmuring, let me say that is what darkens our pleasant afternoons, that is what spoils our mornings, noons ond even ings, Sabbath days and week days, Sundays and Saturdays. We call this world a howling wilderness; well, so it is as long as we howl in it But if we would begin to be a little more faithful and a little more belierlng, bowling would turn to hallelujah, and groaning would turn to songs of grace. Let us look at our own bread, and ask, What is it? A loaf. Do you mean to say, preacher, that there Is a miracle there? I do. Where does a loaf come from? Well, you work, and get your wages, and you go and buy it from the man In the shop. Is that the end of it? Now, for the sake of common seuse, is that the end of it? Is that an explanation of the loaf? Any sensible man says no. Where did your shopkeeper get It from? The baker. Is that the end of the loaf? No. The baker got it from the miller. Is that the end of the loaf? Did the loaf begin and end with the miller? Go back to the farmer, standing In the springtime sowing his wheat seed into the earth. Is that the end of the loaf? Thluk, now; is it? No. On a cold bleak day he opened up the fur row with his plough, and into the cold black earth he put dry rustling seeds out of the dry barn, as dry and rus tling and whistling as dry could be, and out of that seed there will come up in the autumn a stalk, and at the end of the stalk forty, sixty, or one hundred of the thlugs out of which it grew. Did the farmer do thnt? Does the man do that? Whence comes oui bread? From beneath? No. Everv good gift and every perfect gift Is from above, ond comes from the Fa ther of lights, with Whom is no vari ableness nor shadow of turning. We are as divinely fed as the Israelites were, and we are guilty of tue same dullness of eye, we are guilty of the same hardness of heart when we eat our meat as if our own arm had got the money for It, and we had simply made it ourselves. Now go home, and eat your meat with singleness of heart, praising God. ECONOMIC SLAVERY OF TO-DAY By Rev. Dr. Emil Q. Hirsch. Systems which enable the few to hold in economic slarery the many will gradually disappear before an enlight ened public con science. The In dividual must comply with the s o c 1 al decree. Many of the thinkers of the eighteenth cen tury assumed as on axiom that the dictates of a man's conscience were a kind of Infallible guidfl DR. HIRSCII. by which he could measure the acts of his life and thus be sure of living In conformity with the divine law. This doctrine Is held by some even at the present time. The world of thinkers have recognized, however, that this mat ter of conscience Is dependent largely uiwn heredity aud environment The Puritan conscience rebels at the proximity of a brewery, while that of his Teuton nelghlior next door Is con- inced that the brewing of lager servos a distinct social need In the commun ity. This does not mean, however, that the conscience of the world does not grow in some important and funda mental conceptions. We may take the Idea of human slavery, for Instance. The time was when men in this coun try looked upon the latter as a divine institution. Now, however, the con science of the world has reached a loint where the righteousness of slav ery is not considered a debatable ques tion. Short Meter Sermons. Life's outgo makes Its Increase. Sacrifice sanctifies any service. Sin is setting appetite before author ity. Deceit is the poorest kind of dlplo mncy. Gold on the heart does not make the golden heart. Haste to be rich makes waste of the real riches. Every duty neglected is the loss of something divine. At times of revival It is easy to mls take racket for results. Verbal v.'a'tues ore oiown away on the first wind of persecution. He who is in a hurry to be wise is apt to succeed in being foolish. The most mistaken eneavor and fer vor Is better than sleek apathy and In difference. They nre making the least out of life who are ever thinking of what they con make. ' He who is too busy to l',sten to the voice of a child Is likely to miss the voice of his lord. The feet of men ore not kept In the pnth of right by the light of brilliant thoughts olone. - The heretic hunter thinks that the cutting of many thistles will create at least a few roses. DEVELOPMENT OF CUBA. Inland la ItapltUr Recovering; front Kffeeta of War. From on industrial standioint the Island of Cuba is of much more im portance to-day than it was in the hey day of the Spanish regime. It Is true that the two great industries of the Island, sugar and tobacco growing, have not yet recovered from the devastation wrought during the long years of the struggle for Independence, when every mill, and practically every plantation and railroad, was destroyed, but the luqiettis which the American oecupa- A TOBACCO FIELD. tlon c.'ive to the recultivatlon of the leading staples has already had marked effects, and then sugar and tobacco plantations seem more like their old selves than at any time since the close of the war. It Is stated, for example, that fcO.OuO people find employment lu the tobacco fields. But from an econ omic standpoint this does not mean so much as does the fact that an lntelll- gent effort is being made in the direc tion of diversified farming, whereby the Island will not be so dependent upon Its two principal products as has been the case In the past Wh such an effort was not made during the long period of European occupation it Is somewhat difficult to say. In the wesfend of the Island are to be found all the conditions requisite to the successful cultivation on a large scale of tropical fruits as well as fruits LOADING BANANAS. that are not essentially tropical. Or anges, pineapples, grapes and bananas might be made leading staples. Of course one thing that formerly mili tated ugalnst any extensive enterprise was the lack of transiortation facili ties, a condition which is being revolu tionized, thanks chiefly to American and English initiative. The opening of the trunk railroad traversing the back bone of the Island from east to west has a'ready been followed by good re sults from the industrial standpoint and If the scheme of Sir William Van Home and his associates looking to the upbuilding of a great system of small land holdings Is carried to Its loglca' conclusion It will of itself tend to Inaugurate on era of pfosperlty hitherto unknown by the Cubans. The building of branch railroads Is pro ceeding apace, thus offering still great er Inducements to those who would venture upon agricultural experiments. A New DUh. It was Tuesday morning, the clothes had been washed, dried and folded the day previously, and common sense pointed to the fact that it was Ironing day, but cautious Scandinavian Tillie, the new maid, wos not going to make the mistake of going ahead before be ing sure that she was right Before committing herself to the obrloui task, she poked her head Into the dining room to say, appealingly : "Meesls, I skuld like to speak some thing." "What is It, Tillie?" "Skill. I cook some flat-iron?" asked Tillie, earnestly. Harder for Illm. The orergrown boy who mowed the Miller's lawn was unusually Blow one day. Ordinarily the task, stretched to its utmost limit, took exactly two hours; but on this occasion It required almost four. When the Job was finally completed Tom requested pay for four hours' work at twenty cents an hour. "Bvt," objected his employer, "you usually mow that lawn for forty cents."' "I l-.aow it," returned Tom, twirling his cao, "but I'll hare to charge (Lore to-day.- I was sick and couldn't work so fast" Profemilmmll y Coimlflereil. "Public opinion Is a great power," remarked the earnest citizen. "Yes," answered Mr. Dustin Stax; "a great deal may bo done witli it. Tho tioublo Is that It Is so hard to cap italize." Washington Star. Of this you may be sure, that the black sheep in every family nag one the most petted lamb.
