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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1906)
L L LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER CHAS. P. ADA E. SOULB. Pub. J TOLEDO OREGON Many a man who knowg bis place ' has liis eye ou a better one. The piano manufacturers report n record-breaking business a fact wor thy of recital. King Leopold plays the icrpendleular pronoun In a way that nuiHt make other oionarchs green with envy. Senator Whyte. being only 82, will have to excuse Senator Pettus, as the hitter regards him as a mere boy. The London specialist who Is advo cating the "silence cure" for nervous women has earned the thanks of a good many nervous men.' A man who had been married four times walked In his sleep and fell out of a window. That's one falling out he didn't have with his wife. The Czar shows an Inclination to bend to the popular will, but he Is ap parently not going to run any risk of bending an Inch more than he positively must A Norfolk, Va man rescued his mothej-ln-law from a burning house a few (lays Ugo. II 1 to be Loped tlt.it the Carnegie hero medals have not all been given out John D. Rockefeller is a director In only one company the Standard Oil trust It Is believed, though, that he has friends In the directories of several other Influential companies. When ' She was compelled to choose between her husband and her dog a Salt Lake woman chose the dog. It is, of course, unnecessary to add--that her husband was the one who compelled her to choose. Much as we dislike to Impart anoth er rude shock to public confidence. there are grave reasons for the asser- tlon that even the pure Vermont maple sirup of commerce Is not wholly free. from suspicion. . Dr. Erastus Holt's decision that the life of a laborer who has reached the age of 70 years Is worth but $17.13 in dlcates that he never had a grandpa to Intercede for him when he got home from a forbidden fishing trip. " Now comes Dr. Gladden, who pro foundly regrets to report that the stories scraped together by the muck rakers are "mainly truth." Probably the doctor has a magazine article In type that any other statement might contradict The scientific world will most heart ily approve the appointment of Mad ame Curie a a lecturer In the Unlver slty of Paris, In which her late hus band was a professor. This recognition of her faithfulness to her husband's Interests and of her contributions to science Is characteristically French In Its courtesy and delicacy. Alaska Is still a great lone land, but with considerable railroad building In progress It may be ou the eve of a great change. People prefer to travel to gold fields by rail to tracking over mountains and wastes, and we may yet see considerable towns develop there, for those now In existence are In many Instances little more than hamlets. Any place In Alaska having 300 Inhabitants can become an Incorporated town. Even these cannot be numerous In this vast region. Congress has neglected Alaska The schools are small and struggling, and their condition deters many trail slents from becoming homeseekers. As a commercial proposition Alaska has made a good showing, but the visions of the great Arctic commonwealth which were entertained at the time of Its acquisition have not materialized. To Inculcate a habit of saving It. is absolutely necessary that a few dol lars a hundred, more or less should be laid aside as a nest egg. It Is this amount the first hundred and the habit of saving acquired In accumulat ing It that have more to do In giving the young man a financial and business start in the world than any $500 whlc he accumulates afterward. There are scores of young men, hard-working and Industrious, who liav no sense ownership and possess no proprietary Interest simply because they fall make the start In many cases this hand to mouth method of earning and spending is due to young men not hav tug others dependent upon them. While a young woman rmis considerable risk In marrying chaps of this type, she often furnishes the necessary lncentlv to saving. Few critics, foreign or domestic, who have turned their attention to America faults, have failed to make the charge that w are money-mad, too much de voted to commerce. Some Americans :ive confessed lack of faith In the higher alms of their fellows by Insist ing too strongly that only by high sal aries can the people secure good ser vice from public officials. But every one who keeps his eyes open knows that that Is 'too broad a generalization. It is true of some; It Is not true of nil or of the most The good worker chooses the pursuit that his heart bids hlui fol low, and gives his toil for other con siderations than money. A human doc ument presented by a writer in the Outlook bears on this question. Soon fter an argument with some cynical friends, who believed that the price of man was gold, he chanced to see this advertisement In a religious Journal : Wanted Young men of education and retineruent to do mission work In Ar kansas and study for Holy Orders. 'oor pay and hard work." The Inves tigator wrote to the archdeacon who dvertised for helpers to Inquire If any men had applied for the opportunity to work hard for poor pay as It turned out, board and room and about $15 a month. The reply stated that "a splen did body of young men" responded to this and similar notices. A man with a degree from Gottlngen, who has re fused a chair In the Imperial Conserva tory of Japan, another who had given up $200 a month, another, with a de gree In law, who had been assistant state's prosecuting attorney these were among the many able young men working for love, not money. The bish op himself bad gone to Arkansas for 75 n month and a house, after he had refused $2,500 a year. Comment Is needless flit such evidence as this that not all Americans are tolling for dol lars. Much has been written In recent years on the overcrowding of titles and, generally, of the cityward drift of the rural population, especially the younger part of It and In Great -Brit ain as. well as In the United States the cry has been raised, "Back to the wintry !" Any agitation which tends to keep men on the land and which dis- ourages the unnatural and unhealthy overcrowding of already sufficiently oc- upled urban districts Is distinctly wholesome, but In dwelling on the evils of rural deiwpulatlon It Is unphllosoph- cal to ignore completely the counter- urrent from town to country, which s quite as significant as any. other development of the era of rapid transit and electricity. Sir Robert Hunter, In a British review, directed attention some time ago to this latter tendency, which, as he says, "though perfectly familiar In the Individual experience of most of us. Is apt to be overlooked In the general views which are founded on statistics. who, ne asks, is not acquainted with the prodigious exten sion of London In recent years over the surrounding rural districts? The ordinary classification of population as urban and 'rural Is misleading, because many so-called urban districts have Just ceased to be nominally rural and are, In fact, considerable tracts of coun try with one or two centers around which population Is grouped. In, hun dreds of so-called urban districts town life In the proper sense does not exist. Railway-served districts within a cer tain radius of any Industrial center are classed as suburbs, but what does this "growth" of the center mean? It means, according to Sir Robert Hun ter, that a large area of open country Is planted with Inhabitants drawn, not from, the rural elements, but from the city population. "The community is made up at the expense, not of the ag ricultural districts, but of the towns. The very growth of large towns thus tends to cure Itself by the development of, a species of centrifugal force. In habitants from the center migrate to the outskirts, those on the outskirts move further away to purely rural dis tricts." Perhaps It Is an overstatement to say, as Sir Robert does, that the two opposite tendencies neutralize each other. The evil of congestion does not visibly "cure Itself." But the reflow from town to country Is worthy of more attention than It usually receives. It Is certainly true that business and pro fesslonal men seek .hiore and more to combine the advantages of city and country life, and that, p quote the re view writer again, "the need of quiet fresh air and the sights and sounds of nature combines with the ever-Increasing value of laud in the center of a town to spread Its Inhabitants out wards." Poison In War. The use of poison in war was once considered not only permissible, but commendable, and was defended by no less an authority than Wolff. There are reported Instances of wells. springs, ikmhIb and streams being poi soned as a military measure. Even In our time Instances are numerous of the uiuMu.oimi wwm oi uruming wa - ter supplies by throwing the bodies of animals Into the stream or pond. Personal Proof. The visitor to Mr. Nutritch Your floors are beautiful. This Is hardwood Isn't It? Mr. Nurltch Guess it must be. I slipped down on It seven times. It seemed hard. Cleveland Plain Dealer. SEED TIME 'AND HARVEST. By Rev. Stephen Paulson. Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. Gal. 0 : 7. Man has ever been encouraged In his sowing by the certainty of reaping. The hoie of to-morrow's sheaves supports to-day's toilsome sowing. Even so cer tainty of victory has often won battles before they were fought Armed with confidence patriots have beaten down stone walls with naked fists. Uncertainty takes energy out of the thought and the nerve out of the arm. The rumor of some calamity is enough to destroy enterprise. Men will not plow if warhorses are to trample down the ripe grain. Men will not build If the enemy are to warm their hands over the blazing rafters. Men will not plant vines if others are to wrest awuy their fruits. Man' needs hope and a busis of certainty. There fore the Divine promise; "Give- uud It shall be given unto you." Let the husbandman give seed to the furrows, and soou the furrows will give back big bundles into the sowers' arms. Ulve labor to the vines, and they will give back rich purple ' clusters. Give sparingly to nature in seed and labor, and scanty shall be your harvest Give bountifully and bounty shall be given buck. i This Is a universal principle. Drag oite plank to the stream and you have only u narrow and frail bridge across It. Give deep thought to steel cables and stone buttresses and you have the great bridge which spans the flood and carries thousands of people. Bury your one talent, and one talent shall be yours to the end of time. Invest your talent for God and humanity, and it shall be doubled in the using. Give kindness and hospitality and generosity to your fellow men, and "good meas ure, pressed down and shaken together shall men give into your bosom." We have then mentioned two ele ments of tlte principle of sowing and reupiug the elemeut of certainty by which God encourages man to put forth bis labor; aud, the element of propor tlon between the Investment and the return. There is a third element which lies on the surface of our text "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." If you sow wheat seed you will reap wheat; If you sow tare seed you will have a crop of tares; If you plant acorns you do not expect an orchard of peach trees. No, God Is not mocked. His eternal laws hold good throughout the universe, ' and whatso ever a man sows In material or spirit ual things he shall reap that and not something else. Every day men are sowing and reap ing. We ure reaping the fruits und we are sowing for future harvests. But" It takes so long to uppreclnte the prin ciple that we Bhall reap what we sow ; that If we sow the wind, we shall reap the whirlwind ; If we sow to the flesh we shall reap corruption, and if we sow to the spirit we shall reap a spiritual harvest. Childhood and youth are the spring time of life. In a child, parents have virgin soil In which to plant for time and eternity. The child is open to every Impression, eager for every new experience, drinks In every word spok en. The child Is u mirror which re flects every act done before it You are careful to plant good seed in your Held. Are you Just as cureful to plant good emotions in the heart of your child? You take great pains to remove weeds aud briars from your garden. Are you willing to spend the same amount of time and labor to remove obnoxious traits from your child's char acter. Let me make a plea for the children In the seed-time of their lives. Parents', what are you sowing in the fruitful soil of your children's hearts and minds? Are you treating them with inconsiderate harshness? Do not be surprised If you reap the same .from them when they grow older. Do you neglect all their higher faculties and better traits and only feed and clothe them as you would -an animal? Marvel iiot If bitter neglect be your portion In later years. Do you speak lightly be- fore them of thlng8 tlmt are true, things that flre honesti thlllgs tbat are sacred, 1 Hnd tulng8 tlmt nre of good report? 0ne day they will bring you the fruit of irrvprnn(.p BnA dishonesty, which is a disgraced life, "The child is the father of the man," an,l now niany men are spoilt In the making 1 You study for years how to Bet tne results from your fruit trees Hnd vines, you study the rotation , f crops, the chemical elements of the ,l' APACHE Alii ill I, the conditions of the climate and lat seed will bring you the best bar it. How much study do you spend that boy or that girl of yours? And yet there you might reap a harvest of joy ana love and honest pride, with which a great wheat crop would not for a moment compare. Were It only the parents who would suffer for the Improper training of the child, we might think it retributive Jus tice. But society suffers, and your child suffers, carrying through life 'U distorted mind and a stunted soul even as some must carry a crooked body. hatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." We stand here face to face with an Infallible law. The young man sows his "wild oats" and thinks that somehow he Is going to escape the harvest. But It will come. From time Immemorial we have had to reap the result of our deeds and no exception will be made In your case. If we had keener sight we might see that many things which we call "misfortunes" In our lives and the lives of others, are simply the results of the principle that wnat a man sows that he reaps. In conclusion let me say that man by his sowing determines what God buuii be lo iniij. 11 ve God your heart and He shall give you love tender as that of a mother. Give Him the imb- llcan's prayer, "God be merciful unto me, the sinner," and'He shall give you mercy as wide as the sea. Give to Ills little ones even a cup of cold water In His name and He shall give you to drink of the water of the River of Life. FORETELLS PETER'S DENIAL. By Rev. H. S". Harris. Text Luke xxli., 24-37. The "fall" of Peter lay .very heavily on the heart of Jesus. He thought about it He prayed about It, He spoke about it long before It happened. If any due Is Inclined to think little of a "fall," let him study what one "fall" of one disciple was to Jesus. One sin of a child of God does more harm than thousands of sins of the world. Jesus traced this sifting time to its source, "Behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift yon as wheat." What a view this Dassace gives us of the malice of Satan. He had succeeded In obtaining one of the apostles as his prey, and he longs to destroy Peter, too. It seems that Sa tan Is allowed to try the saints, but these trials only serve to make them brighter Christians afterward. No lit tle child Is so dependent upon the watchfulness of its nurse as we are upon that of Jesus. It was Christ who delivered Peter. He knew all the de signs of the enemy. He had already prayed for Peter, and now He warns him. - Peter had many strong points, but one weak one, and that one was at the beginning of this disastrous fall. You know the strength of a rope is to be measured, not according to Its strong est but in its weakest point. When the strain comes let It be broken there, and It Is no matter bow strong the rest Is. So it Is with the strength of a soul. Peter's weak point was his im pulsiveness. Impulse has Its cold fits and its hot fits, Its bravery and Its cowardice. Feter thought himself an Iron man ; but there was a flaw in his iron, though he knew It not until he entered Into a trial for which he was not fitted; then the iron broke 1 But at length Teter obtained a mnr tyr's courage, and now he wears a martyr's crown. The time came when he fulfilled his own words: "I will lay down my life for Thy sake," and he was stretched on a cross like his beloved Master. About seventeen hundred years ago there were thirty youths In the Ro man army who declared for Christ. And for doing so they were condemned to stand on a frozen lake, naked, In the depth of a northern winter, till they froze to death. They said they were quite ready to die for Jesus ; but one of them gave way. He was told that If he denied Jesus he would have a hot bath a once, and he denied his Lord and got the hot bath, but this only hastened his death. He lost by his denial, after all. The others stood firm confessing Jesus, and their faith fulness so touched the heart of one of the officers there that he took off his badge of office and said, "I, too, will be a Christian and die with the rest" He Joined the others on the Ice, say ing, "Now your number Is again com plete." Thus, the "Thirty Martyrs" died for Jesus, and their lives were not wasted, for their brave confession of Christ strengthened their brethren. Never be ashamed to stand up for Jesus, and one day He will show that He Is not ashamed of you. v Short Meter Sermons. The love that lifts lightens its own load. It takes more than a vindication to restore virtue. NDIAN.. Mexicans Killed with Arrows and Ammunition Saved for Others. Scarcely a tribe of our American In dians but what have engraved their record of crime and Infamy high up on history's wall, yet above them all Is the Apaches. From 1540 to 1S53 New Spain and Mexico carried on a so-called warfare with these people. The Apaches were vastly outnumbered by the Mexican soldiery, but what they lacked in num bers was more than made up In cour age and craftiness. The Apache ever had a thorough contempt for the Mex ican soldier and In later years, when they were fighting with firearms as well as arrows, they would not waste cartridges on the Mexicans, but would klll them with arrows, spears and stones, saving their cartridges for other and more worthy foes. v hen this southwest region became a part of the United States the Apaches were a serious problem with which we had to contend. Our government vac illated between a simpering peace pol icy and the other extreme, their exter mination. Their zone of wandering being In tersected by the International boun dary line further complicated mat ters. They would raid down Into Mex ico and then rush back with the plun der to our side of the line, out of reach of the pursuing soldiers. Next It would be a raid on the Arizona side and a flight into the wild mountains of So nera. The Mexican government at tempted to assist their miserable army by giving a scalp bounty, and for years they paid out their gold coin for Apache scalps. Scalp hunting became a recognized Industry. The horror of this was that to the Mexican official all scalps looked alike, whether from the head of a hostile or a friendly In dian. The price was $100 for a mnn, $50 for a woman and $25 for a chill). It Is small wonder that the tribe sank deeper Into savagery than ever when, we stop to think that the men knew there was a price set on the scalps of their wives and children, and there was a horde of human fiends, white in color, but more savage than the sav age himself, who were bunting them as they would a cougar of the mountains. Scribner's Magazine. PRECIOUS STONES IN HIDING. How Gems of Great Value are Con cealed In the Orient. The turquoise, like the opal, Is found In the desolate aud waterless parts of the world. The principal deposits so far as known are In the Persian desert aud on the bare plateaus of New Mex ico and Arizona, according to Cham bers' Journal. Usually the best specimens are taken from disintegrated rock, and the min ing of turquoise Is not only accompanied with much hardship on accouut of the location, but can only be performed with great difficulty. The quantity combined with other stones, as well as with gold, and by Itself, is so extensive lu the cities of Eastern Europe that more of it is believed to be bought by ;;eiu merchants in this way than is at present secured from the principal mines. This is not strange, however, for not only turquoise but other precious stones are known to exist In remarkably larg collections In Constantinople, as well as iu cities In Turkestan, Persia and com munities of Southern Europe. They are hidden away In ginger Jars, nigs, old'boxes and other receptacles of the household, where the owner believes there is little prospect of search being made for them. Gem collectors who have searched for stones In this part of the world say that no one can tell how many and what valuable specimens ' are thus hidden away, only to be brought to light when the owner Is in absolute necessity. Undoubtedly many a gem brought from the famous mines of India, Egypt and Persia in the past has been thus secreted. Prof. Flinders Petrle says the Egyptian -mines at Sinai, worked !rom the first to the twentieth dy nasty, may have yielded turquoise aud copper. Some Signs of Long; LI fa. The woman who desires long life must have eyes round aud wide rather thanlong and narrow. If they are brown or hazel life will be longer than If they are black or violet. The brow must be ample and slope back slightly from an absolute perpen dicular. The head must be wide behind aud over the ears. The brow must be wide and full and well set aud the chin square and firm. The nose must be wide and full through its whole length and have open easy, dilating nostrils. This Indicates a good heart and good lungs. It the orifice of the ear Is low indi cating a deeply seated brain, there is a better chance of long life.. The woman who appears taller In proportion when sitting down than when standing has a good chance to live long. If the body Is long in pro- and digestive organs are largeMod ern Women.
