LIHGOLN COUNTY LEADER
CHAS. P. ADA B. SOULB, Pbi.
TOLEDO.
.OREGON
King Christian (lied poor. lie should
have consulted King Leopold.
The doctor will get even with Gro
ver Cleveland the next time be has a
twinge of rheumatism.
Hecent disclosures concerning the
"smart set" give Colonel Watterson
in excellent excuse for saying, "I told
you so."
Complaint is mnde that the navy Is
becoming too costly. Some way must
be found to reduce the expense of the
hoeing trials.
A pure food law, say Its opponents,'
would work a revolution in certain
Industries. This, if true, only demon
strates the need of a pure food law.
Georgia drummers are demanding a
law for clean sheets. They ought to
consult with Messrs. Ilapgood and
Collier, who have done something to
ward getting cleaner sheets.
Esperanto, the new universal lan
guage, has been get to music. A great
deal of operatic singing has always
sounded like Esperanto, no matter
wliut liie uumluul luuguuge was.
The late King Christian of Den
mark left a very small estate hardly
a quarter of a million. The Russian
grand dukes and the princes of the
graft business the world over must
be staggered by so gross' a neglect of
opportunity.
In woman's artistic dress Miss Itep
pller, the clever essayist, sees a guar
anty of woman's ascendency. To
paraphrase an old adage: Let us
wear the skirts of the country, and
we care not who wields the ballot and
makes the laws.
"The fact that King. Christian left
on estate worth only $250,000," . says
the Indianapolis News, "makes It evi
dent that he was Indifferent to his op
portunities." Not necessarily. There
may be lens rottenness In the state of
Denmark than there used to be.
The greatest problem of education
unsolved to-day relates to girls. Here
tofore their education has been a mere
copy of that long ago established for
boys. Some day a genius will come
along and conceive thoughts whV'h
shall form the basis of . an education
which shall help girls to all their best
possibilities without dissipating their
strength on Hues of effort established
for natures in some respects entirely
dVTerent
Andrew Carnegie doubtless obtains
great satisfaction from his possession
of Immense wealth, but be doubtless
obtains still greater satisfaction from
Ills occasional success as a speaker and
wrtter. Unquestionably he would rather
be numbered among the great artists,
the great musicians or the greut au
thors of the world than he would
among the great millionaires. The ap
plause which greeted his really clever
little speech at the Mark Twain din
ner was more grateful to him than all
the power wulch his wealth confers
upon him. After all there are some
successes In the world that are better
to be desired than the attaining- of
much money.
Last year there were over 0,000
homicides committed In the United
States, a considerable Increase over the
previous year. Undoubtedly there was
also an Increase In other crimes. The
statement is made that with the single
exception of the Italians the American
people are the most homicidal nutVm
In the civilized world. The indictment
against this country Is emphasized by
a comparison with the criminal statis
tics of other leading natVns. In Italy
the homicide number 105 per 1,000,000
of Inhabitants per year; In this coun
try last year the ratio was per
1,000,000. The annual aVerage ratio
of homicides to population In uermuny
Is 13 per 1,000,000, in France 10 per
1,000.000, and in the United Kingdom
7 per 1,000,000.
The use of large sums of money In
elections Is admittedly n menace to
free Institutions. Heavy contributors
are generally prompted by a desire for
Individual gain. The Interests thus
represented are enabled to dominate
political organizations, centralizing
power and depriving tho many of their
polltV'ul rights for the benefit of the
few. It Is useless to assert that prac
tices of this nature can not be elimln
a ted. England has demonstrated the
possibilities in this direction so con
clusively as to leave dissenters no
ground on which to stand. The corrupt
practices act In force there ploces re
strictions upon candidates and their
supporters which make the use of large
mounts Impossible. Responsibility
fixed with a certainty that leaves no
room for evasion, and the result has
been a complete transformation.
We are getting rather tired of the
north pole. It has been overdone.
Time was when we were Intensely
curious to know about It and thought
perhaps Its discovery might have come
commercial value, but now It is different
We know pretty well that nothing Is to
be gained by locating the pole beyond
the satisfaction of a dulled curiosity,
and the ambitions of the hunter.
We can get on very well without the
alleged "geographical and scientific
facts" to be adduced by, the discovery.
And we are tired of making heroes of
the plalu or garden cbumpa who go In
search of the pole. Every man who
wants to be a hero end break Into
print trots off to discover ' the north
pole and comes back afterward and
tells us how and why he failed, and
will we make up a purse to send him
again? Sure to find It this time! It's
getting to be a nuisance. Let the old
polo alone. Nobody wauts it anyway.
There can be no question that the
prevalence of tertaln diseases has in
creased during the last half century.
Conspicuous among these are diabetes
and Insomnia, both of which are large
ly due to the mental stress of a hard
er struggle for existence. The in
creased consumption of alcohol and
the free use of narcotics are also re
sponsible for many morbid conditions
unknown to our hardier forbears. But,
la comparing tho present prevalence
of diseases with that of the past there
are several factors for which due al
lowance Is often not made. One of
these Is that our forefathers died, as
a rule, at a considerably younger age
than their descendants; if they did not
perish by the sword they were mowed
down from time to time by the plague
and other devastating epidemics. In
this way they escaped many of the
diseases not only of old age, but of
advanced middle life. Again, it must
not be forgotten that each generation
represented to a much larger extent
than Is now the case the survival of
the fittest. Most of the weaklings died
in childhood. The. triumph of modern
hygiene Is that it has preserved a
large proportion of these UveB.
Boys in highway robbery, girls in
wine rooms and dance halls. These
are the spectacles that are sending
sword thrusts of pain and grief into
parental hearts all over the land this
winter, and every winter and every
season of every year in this and every
laud, and perhaps especially In this
lund, where parental authority is apt
to relax and filial reverence to decline
ojid youthful blood run riot In tho
quest for excitement, adventure, and
fun. Every city is agitated over its
boys, and wild girls. What Is to be
said, what is to be done? In one of
those powerful drawings with which
John T. McCutcheon occasionally
searches the secret heart of American
life, the Chicago Tribune points out
what it calls "the root of the boy bur
glar evil." Father and mother are
portrayed at home, 'reading accounts
of juvenile highwaymen In the even
ing paper and wondering where "Wil
lie" is. The lesson Is implied, but it
is plain; a boy's parents should know
where he spends his evenings and
know that he spends them in right and
proper ways. Sociology has run to
seed in the propensity to attribute ev
ery individual action to the tendency
of society. Not the drunkard Is cen
surable, but only the saloon; not the
man who gambles away his week's
wages, ' but only the cards and the
green table; not the girl who yields to
some Insistent ruffian, but the four
walls and the furniture that were the
scene of her ruin; not the boy that
Joins a bevy of evil companions, but
the policeman on his block, or the yel
low Journal, or the divorce, laws, or
the straight front corset, or woman's
clubs. No boy is ever caught In the
meshes of the law under' the Impres
sion that he was behaving himself.
Xo girl Is guiltless and Innocent of
heort who goes Into a private room
and drinks liquor with a strange man.
That sound principles are not more
fully understood and practiced by our
youth Is the fault of the father and
mother, engrossed In business or pleas
ure to the exclusion of parental duties,
such as the old Jewish, German and
Puritan fathers were wont to dis
charge with such fidelity and good re
sults. Children do not form a char
acter and mold' a destiny by chance.
They must be trained; and there is no
more crying need of the hour than the
sense of parental responsibility. Men
who look after their business with
sedulous exactness, and women who
have studied American leads and an
tique rugs and Italian marbles and
Parisian modes with Infinite patience
and enre, discharge the solemn obllga
tlons of fatherhood and motherhood
in a careless and haphazard sort of
way. Out of such betrayal of the
most sacred of trusts conies the awful
ruin of young lives. There are girls
so trained that not all the wine rooms
In the world could corrupt their vir
tue, and boys to whom a saloon and
gambling house on every corner wwld
be no temptation.
"GO FORWARD."
By Rev. Walter Ross Taylor, D. D.
Text "And the Lord said unto Mo
ses, 'Wherefore criest thou unto Me?
Speak unto the children of Israel that
they go forward.' " Exodus xiv :15.
Go forward a summons to individ
uals and to the church, to advance in
Christian character. No worthy, no
abiding character can be formed with
out a basis of belief. But on the oth
er hand, what avails a foundation if
it is not built upon? What will it avail
in riiv np think thnt we art nf the root
u we ghow noue of the (ruIt? go the
command runs: go forward, build up
yourselves on your most holy faith.
Stone after stone, row after row, of
gracious character has to be built up
with care and diligence. Add to your
faith courage, and to courage knowl
edge, and to knowledge temperance,
and to temperance patience, and lo pa
tience godliness, and to godliness broth
erly kindness, and to brotherly kind
ness love. As in a rich and beautiful
mosaic, so each tiny element of
thought and temper has to be fitted into
Its place after the pattern of Christ.
For the little octs of each day are the
things that determine the feelings;
these determine habits; these again
make up character. And as to the In
dividual, so to the church life the cull
Is to go forward ; forward to a fuller
manifestation of the Christian spirit,
the spirit of brotherhood and love.
We have had far too ample an expe.
rience of the evil of letting the spirit
of strife and division take the place of
the spirit of Christ within His church,
and I believe the country at large is
most heartily tired of It. We have had
enough and more than enough of the
headstrong dogmatism which makes
uniformity of opinion in regard to ev
ery minor matter of more vital con
cern than the unity of the Body of
Christ. For now nineteen centuries the
world has had before it the spectacle,
not of a united Divine kingdom, stead
ily promoting with one heart the one
end for which it exists, but of so' muny
schools of theological opinions jealously
competing for popular patronage ami
support It Is altogether wonderful that
a deafened world should have found
little to attract In these sectarian wruu-
gles? Can It be doubted that in the
long course of these centuries the In
fluence of the Man Christ Jesus would
have told with Immensely greater effect
than at present if thut influence had
not been marred by the unworthy rep
resentation of it presented by His
Church? And neither can it be doubted
that tho sooner the subjects of the Di
vine kingdom realize that that king
dom Is no sphere for self assertion and
strife and schism, but for righteous
ness and peace and Joy In the Holy
Ghost, the sooner will the world rec
ognize that It Is indeed the kingdom of
heaven come down Into our sln-striek-
eu world, and as such having para
mount claim to men's obedience.
RICHES AND RIGHTEOUSNESS.
By Rev. Henry F. Cope.
"How hardly shall they that have
riches enter the kingdom of God."
Luke 18: 24.
Let no man take It, however, that
this statement Involves the opposite,
how easily shall they thnt have noth
ing enter In. The people who have
lived pulseless lives are apt to point
to their poverty as the proof of their
piety. But righteousness is neither a
matter of riches nor of rogs. The
Great Teacher glorifies neither. The
qualifications for citizenship In his
kingdom strike deeper than that
His words have nothing to do With
the bitter envy of the demagogue who
denounces those who have earned that
for which he would not labor. lie
measures men not, by that they have
but by that they are. He looks through
both the fine linen and the tattered
rags to the man. Money Interests him
only as it affects character. The ques
tion of riches and poverty Is not a
mutter of housing and eating, but what
a man does for himself and his world
with that which he has.
Riches of themselves do not bor a
man from heaven ; but they full often
eat Into his heart, become of absorbing
Interest and so effectually and forever
blind the Inner vision to the best
things. It is not that heaven has shut
Its gates, but that the love of money,
the selfishness, born of cupidity, has
paralyzed those spiritual senses by
which he might have found his way
therein. v
The possession of wealth Is not a
sin: to some it has come almost with
out effort, even ngulnst their wills; but
It does constitute one of the most se-
vere tests that can be set before a
soul. It Increases the difficulties of
the right life, because It enlarges so
greatly the responsibilities. The great
er the wealth the greater the trust
laid upon a man as the steward of the
produce of the earth.
The principle holds of all posses
sions; all are tests of character. A
man can love gold Just as ardently
when he has but a grain as when he
has possessions beyond computation. A
single dollar, laid on the heart, can
shut out the light of heaven as effec
tually as can a million. The relation
between riches and righteousness Is
not determined by the balance in 'the
bank, but by the balance that a man
succeeds In maintaining in his heart
between his own Interests and the trus
teeship which possession places upon
him.
Money makes men as well as un
makes them. The burdens, the tests,
the responsibilities it entails, the temp
tations it presents, all form part of
life's great lesson. Out of the strug
gle between self and the service we
owe the world, out of the keen fight
ing against covctousncs3, and the bat
tie against the debasing tendencies tf
the love for gold and the greed for
gain arise the giants or fall the lost
souls.
The rich young ruler came to Jesus
and faced his test ; the demand that he
should sell all and give to the poor
simply put his heart on trial; it set
before him the greut choices; it decid
ed as to the things which he held first
To him the possession of things wasl
more than the possibilities of using
them In service; before the great test
he fell.
It Is just as easy and often fully as
dangerous to set your heart on the
gold you haven't got as It Is to fall Into
the snare of the miser. Everything
depends on the place you give to rich
es In your life. One man seeks them
as a prize to be won and enjoyed for
his own gratification, his own glory
and fame; another seeks them only as
larger avenues to usefulness, and to
him riches come as tools, as servants,
as possibilities In making his life count
for more.
Some men die with their houses full
of tools unused; they have made the
fatal mistake of setting their hearts
on the tools Instead of on the work.
Others come to their accounting pos
sessing as many tools, but all of them
shining from hard use, and counting as
their treasures not the tools but the
things produced, the good accomplish
ed. Wealth Is for work and the work
Is for the making of the man. .They
enter the kingdom who are kingly,
whether they learned the royal lesson
and acquired the heaVenly character
through the school of poverty or that
of riches.
Short Meter Sermons.
Self shrinks the soul.
The keen eye needs the kindly heart
Menial work may be noblest serv
ice. There's no argument equal to a hap
py smile.
Imaginary evils have more than Im
aginary effects.
They who live off the flock are never
willing to die for It
Earthly prudence Is a large part of
heavenly providence.
Homes are often closest knit about
some grave of separation.
You cannot travel toward heaven
with your back turned to honor.
Weapons thnt fly off the handle have
little effect on the walls of sin.
One of the worst offenses against hu
manity is the pretense of divinity.
The leaders of men are not the ones
who are trying to get ahead of their
fellows. ,
The saddest people in this world are
those who are. always fighting against
sorrow.
It's not the man with a putty back
bone who Is most truly resigned to the
will of God.
If you are going to fo good work
for all men you will have to be against
some men.
When two churches find a bone of
contention you may be sure the devil
has the meat.
Success is not in an endeavor to do a
great thing, but In repeated endeavors
to do greater things.
Many a man thinks that taking a
lease on a front pew gives him a free-,
hold on a corner lot in heaven.
It's not by being.agnlnst many things
that you will iiave the world, but by
being for a few things with all your
might.
In the ' European cathedrals they
gather the dust of the dead, but in the
American churches the great things la
to get the dust of the living.
THE READY WITTED MOTORMAcf
Ralnea Track Blockade Quickly and
Kanlly, and (ioen A Ionic.
One way of getting up a horse that
has fallen was illustrated on the last
slippery day by a Broadway motor-
muu to the delight of ull the beholders-
It was the off horse of a big brew
ery team that was down, and with this
ua;-se down the outfit altogether block
ed both car tracks. The driver, headed
uorth, had attempted to cross over
from the west side to the east side of
Broadway, to continue on up, and that
off horse had gone down while cross
ing between the two tracks, falling
so as to block the up track, while the
wagon stood across the down.
Curs began to bank up, of course,
right away, on both sides of the ob
struction, the first car thus held up
being one on the down truck, whose
motorman, without any fuss, prompt
ly proved himself a man quite equal to.
the emergency.
The minute he had got his brake set
aud his car brought to a standstill he
begun operating with his foot the
plunger that runs down through the
car platform to work the valve of the
sandbox carried underneath, from
which sand Is released upon the track
when the rails are slippery; and oper
ating the plunger-thus he now let run
out upon the track sand enough to
make a nice little conical mound.
Then he reached up and took down
from the forward end of the hood of
his car the number plate carried there-
to serve now us a bbovcl. And with
this handy implement he scooped up
without waste the sand from the little
mound and spread It around on th
slippery pavement under the fallen
horse's hoofs, so disposed that the
horse would find it with his feet when
he tried to rise.
And the sharp sand served this pur
pose admirably ; the horse was on his
feet In a minute; and then the police-
man aud the driver moved him enough
to let the cars on the up track go by,
and a minute later the driver had tbe
horse hooked up again, and his whole
outfit clear of both tracks, by whlcli
time the ready, witted motorman was
moving along steadily half a block
down Broadway. New York Sun.
ISLAND OF SOLID ORE.
Deposit Almoat Inexhaustible
and
Could Be Worked Eaullr.
The Northumberland Islands belong
to Queensland and lie off the east cen
tral coast of the Pacific, between the
towns of Rockhampton and Mack ay.
One of the smallest Islands In the Duke
group of this archipelago is Iron Island.
The whole island Is iron ore, except a
strip from 00 to 120 feet wide on the
west and a sund flut across Its northern
end. The island is 1,320 feet in length,
und 528 feet in greatest width, Its
highest point being 120 feet above high
water mark.
It is estimated by the geological sur
vey that the amount of ore above hlgh
wuter mark Is 1,500,000 tons and that
the additional ore avullable betweea '
high and low tide (twenty-three feet)
amounts to 750,000 tons, making a total
of 2,250,000 tons of avalluble ore.
The rock on the western side of the
island Is greenish, highly altered tra
chyte, in which there has been great
development of east and west cross
quartz veins, probably formed before
the Iron was introduced Into the sur
rounding region. On the south side of ,
the island are three outcrops of pure '
white statuary marble, from ten to
twenty feet across and twenty to sixty
feet in length.
It Is believed by some Queensland
geologists that the ore nietasoniatieully
replaced limestone and slate and that
the formation of ore may still be going
on, inasmuch as the ridge top supports
figs and scrub vegetation, showing that
spring water Is still reaching the sur
face. The ore consists chiefly of crypto-
crystulline magnetite, with massive
hematite, and bus scarcely a trace of
impurity. Its specific gravity Is 4.5 to
4.0.
Blocks of ore up to ten feet in diam
eter are plied up around the base of the
lslaud. Ne work has yet been done, but
there will be no difficulty In mining
down to tide level. To work below that
level a wall of ore will have to be left
to prevent the entrance of the sea
water.
How the Kalner Travel.
The German state railway Is much .
tempted to encourage the emperor to 1
trayqj as often as possible, for each
journey he takes Is a considerable sum
in the pocket of the nation. Ills
majesty travels in great splendor. As
a rule there are two special trains,
one for- the emperor and one for tho
empress. These, are the property of
the Prussian state, but the traveling
expenses are paid by the emperor him
self. The court trains are charged at
the rate as ordinary special trains.
Thus, the Journey from Berlin to
Elbiug, near the northeast frontier,
costs rather over $1,500, and the samo
fee is, of course, charged for the re
turn Journey,
About the only time an American
princess hears the truth up to the day
she gets married Is when her brother
talks to her, and then she never listens.