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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.