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.
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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.