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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1906)
LIHGGLN COIM LEADER C T. SOUIE. Publisher TOLEDO OREGON Time to put thnt Russian revolution In the "alleged" class. The Northwest Passage Is found, but nobody knows what to do with It The souvenir postal card has led to e murder In New York. Not at all surprising. Politeness Is the bridge that spans the abyss between truth-telling and common sense. The difference between the drama and real life Is that on the stage trage dies seem pathetic. Mark Twain Is to. write an auto biography. Mark refuses to tackle any thing grave until be Is dead. Teddy, Jr., hunted eleven days and got nothing. Does he wish to bring gray balrs In sorrow to the grave? The Czar keeps a fortune-teller on his payroll. No wonder the poor little father always wears such a melancholy expression. The truth of the matter Is that the Russian peasantry are suspicious of eating freedom cake from the hand of Adnm Znd. A rich Pennsylvanlan has hired a trnlned nurse for his sick bulldog. The strange part of It Is that this million aire doesn't live In Pittsburg. As a matter of fact, the Cubnn revo lution seems to be the result of a dis inclination on the part of the revolu tionists to work for their living. Mr. Rockefeller's pastor says tno most miserable people on earth are very rich. Most of them seem to get a good deal of satisfaction out of being miser able. The Sultan has pardoned a large number of criminals out of the Turkish prisons. From this It Is Inferred that his health Is either a great deal better or a great deal worse. Thnt northwest passage has been found again, but President Roosevelt Is trying to oien up a southerly pas Bage which he thinks will be more con venient for general use. Mr. Rockefeller has gone on record as an exponent of the "simple life," and It Is no surprise to the folks who have noticed what a simple matter It is for him to make a living. General Weyler Is reported to regard the Cuban revolution as a bit of child's play. This moy be due to the fact that both the revolutionists and the govern ment are trying to make It a bloodless affair. One of New York's loveliest and most aristocratic heiresses Is to become the bride of a newspaper man. Titled for eigners will regard this as another ag gravating piece of effrontery on the purt of the press. General Miles says that the open ing of the Panama Canal will cause a world war. Somehow, the General re minds us of those long-distance alarm ists who say that In two or three mil lion years the wrld will frizzle and fade away. One hundred thousand dollars' worth of postage stamps belonging to Boston collectors were exhibited at the con vention of the American Philatelic As sociation. The average boy collector who has a hundred dollars' worth at the catalogue price thinks he Is rich. Sentimentalists always picture the Indians as a vanishing race, shoved on toward the furthermost edge of the mop by the ruthless white man and shot down now and then when they do not obey with sufficient alacrity the order to move on. But cold statis tics show that there are 284,(100 I dlans now living, and that there has been an Increase of 14,000 In the last decade. It Is estimated that there were but 230,000 In what Is now the United States when this country was discov ered. These figures constitute a high tribute to the vigor of a race that has not only survived the encroachments of civilization, represented by some 00,000,000 whites, but increased and multiplied while defending Itself with Inferior weapons against trained fight ing men with modern arms. The director of the solar observatory at Kensington In England announces that at the time of the San Francisco and Valparaiso earthquakes and those which occurred In 1004 the spots on the sua were at the maximum of their Ize It Is not known that the sun pots and the earthquakes have any relation, but their simultaneous ap pearance has been observed often. There Is another theory of the west ern earthquakes, however, which Is more simple and probable. It is that the mountains on the western shore of the continent are slowly but constantly being forced upward. Occasionally the upturning strata of rock slip and the result Is destruction to the cities with in the area of disturbance. This theory fits well with the recent successive earthquakes on the Pacific coast Progress In China has recently been shown In a remarkable, If not unique, way. The people of -a village In the province of Fuklen held a meeting, and determined to break up the opium hab it. At the suggestion of two men who had gone to the Fuchau City Hospital for treatment for opium-smoking, let ters were sent to the head of the hos pital asking him to come to A-long and help them. One contained a respectful and carefully worded agreement signed by the village elders and principal men. Doctor Wilkinson, who tells the story In the Church Missionary Intelligencer, accordingly went to the village, and found that practically all the people were anxious for the reform. At a meeting with the head men the opium shopkeepers themselves stood up a ad said they were willing to stop selling the drug, and fifty dollars was raised to defray the cost of medicines. LiEt March the village ancestral hall was turned Into a hospital, and seventy-nine men patients were admitted, a woman from the mission having charge of nine women In another place. For three weeks they were treated, during which time only two lost courage and left. Dally morning and evening religious services were held, with an Increased Interest as time went on In the sing ing of hymns and the simple Bible talks. During the day the tedium of the patients was relieved by magic-lantern, photographic and gramophone ex hibitions. What the result of the move ment will be It is of course Impossible to say, but at the request of the village elders and bead men, the mandarin put up a proclamation forbidding any one again to open an opium-shop In the vil lage. It la desirable that the lands re claimed by national Irrigation project! should go into the hands of actual culti vators, and not of speculators. Presi dent Roosevelt calls special attention to this In his letter to the national Irri gation congress. lie wishes to see a multitude of small farms, each suffi cient to support one family, Instead of a much smaller number of 100-acre farms. Doubtless the speculators already have their eyes on the lands which the gov ernment Is about to endow with special fertility. They would like to get posses sion of extensive tracts so as to profit by the great Increase in value which Is certain to come. If the reclaimed lands are sold at first In small parcens to gen uine cultivators they will stick to their holdings and the speculators will not be able to get In. No legislation can be framed which will automatically keep the speculators out. For many years unscrupulous men have been able to get around the land laws, and help them selves to choice portions of the public domain. They did so with comparative Impunity until the present Secretary of the Interior got after them. He has prosecuted many and has punished some. He has exemplified the familiar principle that laws are of no value until somebody makes It his special business to enforce them. The Irrigation act says that the limit of area per entry shall represent the acreage which. In the opinion of the Secretary of the In terior, "may be reasonably required for the support of a family upon the lands In Question." In one locality he may consider five acres enough, and In an- other forty. If this discretion is to be wisely used by the Secretary or by the subordinates on whose Judgment he hns to depend to a considerable degree, there does not seem to be need or room for any additional legislation. The President says the national Irrigation congress can do something towards car rying out the policy of placing on each reclaimed area the largest number of families that can get a comfortable liv ing when the land Is well tilled. It can give advice ns to the size of allot ments. It can assist In the detection of attempts at fraudulent entries. No doubt Ingenious men will try through dummies to get control of large tracts. If they shall succeed It will not be due to Imperfect legislation but to the laches of the agents of the government Exciting Sport. Last winter the Norwegians varied the excitement of ski running by yok ing the runner to a motor cycle by a long leather strap, which be grasps with his left hand. The speed attained is enormous, and great skill Is required to avoid being pulled over, as the body Is apt to outrun the feet The pastime Is growing very popular. You hear a great deal of the "ad vantages" to be gained In living In a large city. We don't know what they are unless It Is chasing street cars. We always hate to visit a country house, because of dogs, Efflhirry voaw ol Revolution ended by th -toojibh AmoricOkn War renewed titer three yews of Independence UBANS of the present day were born to revolution Men now In the prime of life, as in fonts heard the clash of arms. Their first recollec lections are of swords that flashed. homes that blazed and women who fled from the sav age soldiery of Spain. When at the close ot the last centurv the reconcentrado lifted to heaven the arms withered by famine and Implored cue great nation that had won Deaee to save him and his from destruction and despair, there was an answer at last In the boom of cannon. Brave ships cross ed tne water. The strong had taken un der the shelter of his might the weak and downtrodden. The Cuban flag was given the right to fly over a tree Cuban people. Out of conditions little better than anarchy came the stable form of order, and they who had struggled for many a decade found their efforts crowned with the freedom of their de sire. Then the benefactor leaving to an emancipated people the problem of their own destiny. Thnt the new republic should not have remained quiet Is not surprising. Many Americans know little of the Cuba of fifty years ogo. To them the Gem of the Antilles bus been but a spot In the map, made vivid for the first time when the United States, horrified at continued cruelty, drove" forth the tyrant The cruelty was nothing new in. Cuban history; It had made Cuban history. Before the climax that lower edthe Spanish pride and the Spanish banner In the West for decades the prayer for recognition as belligerents went unheeded. In Just Revolt. Cuba In revolt displayed a concep tion of Justice that would have been an honor to any people. An early move was the freeing of the slaves held under Spanish rule directly In violation of treaty. Spain's pretense of emancipa tion had been nothing more. - By rqyal decree the slave was freed when he hud reached his 00th year, or just wnen he would have been helpless to care for himself. At one time out of 000,000 ne jroes In Cuba 308,000 were slaves, many of these being natives of Africa. When the revolutionists freed them a' large number became soldiers, and some won their way to Important command. In 1820, but for the veto of the Unit ed States, Bolivar, valiant and futile, might have won the cause of Cunn. But the cause was not killed. The South American possessions of the Spanish were permitted to break their alle giance, but Cuba, suffering, oppressed, crying out with a great voice and with Its blood sealing the sincerity of its as pirations, was permitted to languish In thrall. In 1843 the struggle for Independence took definite form again. At that time Cuba was recognlaed as a republic by Peru, and there was promise of co-operation from neighboring governments, but that of the United States could not be won, and the promise was not ful filled. Yet with failure, and In the (ace of opposition from those who might have been neutral, and of Indifference from those whose Impulses should have been friendly, the faith of the Cubans never faltered. While Thonaanda Perished. When 50,000 Cuban lives had been sacrificed to the fury of a falling des potism nearly 200,000 Spanish had per ished on the same altar. At one time the Cubans overran the Island from the eastern extremity to Colon on the west The enemy was shut In Its strongholds, but the enemy held the sea. The Cuban armies were made of tried fighters. The Spanish were raw levies, constant ly renewed. Production of sugar began to lessen, and agriculture generally was oq the wane. Spanish reforms took the sbpe of more obnoxious taxes, until te Cuban paid $S4 yearly, while the Sfmlsh In their own land paid $7. In 1871 the Cubans had Issued an appeal to civilization, showing the con ditions that had grown from the declar ation of Independence at Manzanlllo In 1808. It was an appeal to touch the heart of humanity, and perhaps It did, but to no practical effect The Manza nlllo declaration but emooaiea tne sen tlment sought to be put Into practice by Lopez In 1848. In that year Lopez hud lnnrtml nrlth a am nil nrnedltlnn n and is again defeated. His resulted In his capture, roHay, nnu was third attempt and he was executed. Vain also were the efforts of Gen. Quitman In 1855, but the seed such men sowed was ripening for the harvest A Real Leader Arlaea. It was In Oitrhor lar.u ti.ot nn-i. .. . , AVUUf tuub waiiua Manuel de Cespedes, a lawyer, raised tllA ratflnrinft t nnnnU tT U-J I 4. - "-hv vi iciuiu xitj UUU UUk It V few hundred followers, and they but Miss Jenks nave you really broken partly armed. A month later his army off your engagement to him? i Miss consisted of 12.000 men. They won vie- Flyte-Oh, yes. I Just had to. He was tory after victory. Man for man the getting too sentimental began to a'.k Spanish were no match for them, and to me about matrimony. Philadelphia so the regiments were poured In to Ledger. perish of battle and disease. When f ' , . M ,. Cespedes captured a town, and found , J V , , 8ald, the kInd Id that he could not hold It with the full l'oXVu"f consent of the Inhabitants. 4t was his f i - 3 de gUWM wont to destroy it before abandonment Xtor t h 11 so that Into the hands of the enemy J." head waiter ?"-Milwaukeo there fell naught but ruins. Don Do- , mingo Dulce, the Spanish commander, Tbat man may 66610 to you some made overtures of reconciliation. Mes- what uneducated, and yet he makes a sengers sent to confer with him were assassinated, and negotiations fell through. The war degenerated Into a guerrilla strife, as was unavoidable, and for long years the Spanish were "Jlmsby would have had that fat ap harassed liv n faa fhpv vmM nnt mh. Dolntnipnf nf til a vat ic i, i ..... due and never did subdue. For decades, his head." "What did he do?" "Notu with Intermittent periods of a peace Ing-" "Then how did he lost his uead?" that but presaged fresh outbreak, the "The official ax cut it off." Baltimore contest went on. Then onnositlon to Spanish rule became Implacable. The time for the final struggle had arrived, ue war ol leaterday. That which followed Is remembered as but of yesterday. The women and have a pretty good chance at de quar chlldren of the patriots were herded In ferr-Woin.,,! rM camps, there to die of famine. Want stalked through the fertile island be- cause there was none to do the work. The plow rusted and the hoe was Idle. The mill turne-d no more. But the pat- riots would not yield, though the whole fair island be desolated and the last Cuban give his life for liberty. What would have been the outcome uuu uui me uuueu suites oruerea Spain back to her own continent and driven her hence no man can say. That there would have been practical exter- mlnatlon is hardly to be doubted. In the conduct of the Spanish there was no hint of mercy or compromise. Wey- lpr. nlnceri In niinromo .fiiitrnl na n a . w " 1 " man with soul untouched of pity, a hardened, brutal nature dominating his every move. He claimed the right to make war in his own fashion, and the ttlder'n me!" United States arbitrarily took the right "Did your daughter take physical cul from him. For this Cuba had been hire Imwnna ni.iu t n .... ........ Imploring for weary, almost hopeless, years- When liberty was first an accomplish- ed fact the Cubans chafed under the benlgn rule of the liberators. They could not understand that there should be restraint unon them. Had thev not devoted their lives to securlne freedom itSSf-z ban. whatever his precise lineage, re- colls now from anything that seems In the least to curtail his nrerormtlv n fromn TTa Hn. w ...uWct.nH .i .ij i i .... . lies us oiuer ireuiiira uccepi luis, ana the quiet opposition of speech and bal- lot is alien to his promptings. To fight has been the basic part of his educa- tion, and with no foreign hosts to meet i.. . .i 1 1 f.i.M. 1,1. . , . i .. .i uu icuuti luiu.1 uio iivncsa uguiii3 the neighbor who may have failed to agree with him. Cuba's enreer hns been n sprlea-nf - w. tragedies. The struggles of the Cubans would form the subject for a glorious epic. They have emerged triumphant, and if so be the consciousness of victory nus lurueu iue ueuus oi a iev or tuem, what Is the marvel? Popular Dogr. Jack, a dog at the Palace theater. London, known to theater people all uver iue worm, uieu me oiuer uay and his death was announced with an offl- .1. . 1 ) T .. . J J... . 1 1 ciaa euiogium. ue waicnea tne stage . . ..... door when the doorkeeper was away and ran and got him If the bell rang, and had been trained to fall on and ex. tlngulsh any burning substance he saw, such as a piece of paper. He was ow.u im a 1" v. yupcr, lie W88 choked to death by a piece of money he was taking to a restaurant to buy hi. iHnni n.llh m uiutivi niiui . Damp There Travelers by steamer return no fmm the east say that CherropoonJI, m As- sam, had lOCVi Inches of rain between July 10 and 25, an average of over 15 In-hes a day. CherropoonJI Is the wet-1 teM place In the world. It nn.,i . -....urn average for twenty-five years is 480 inches, and In 1801 It had 805 Inches of rin. Boston Herald. You will notice that the lady slttln ahead of you has an awful time to I""-"" " " lime io keep ber hair up If she has a Drettv hand; and If there Is a diamond on It her hair Just won't stay up. "I thought 'you were thinking serl. ously about getting married." "I was." "Then why didn't you?" "That's why." Cleveland Leader. Gladys Mamma, what Is a "cursory' glance? Mamma It Is the kind of a look which your father gives when ho wants to swear, but doesn't dare. She Why did Professor Schlncker stop playing at Mrs. Lard's muslcale? He He said he had to, because the . ...... um nub iiki.ucu ttl LUU same key as bis music Harper's Weefc- It 1 conversation was not pitched In the flne llvln' by hls Pen" "Why, I would "c n:m ior a writer." 'Ha lsn t; ue ralses pigs." Baltimore Andean. American. Mr. Titewodd If I promised you a dollar, and your Uncle Joe promised you twenty-five cents, how much would i.rt.. . , . , "V flashtf n me wh that J T lf mef Z w h '8 he? 1 forget hIs Z3, V, .gageU 10 mm ,n ,Ue T"T p , '-aiti American. I edestrian Madam, a boy who I ain l"lu 18 our Bon nas JU8t thrown a ' uuu ium is very Panful. What are you going to about It? Mother I don't know. "ave yu lnea arnica New Orleans ajnne. That Explains. Two small boys at the newsboys' dinner put their iiniy hands Ride hv stria ntviii fha tn),la.in. - " l -"w wuici.iuuii "Mine's dlrtler'n yourn!" exclaimed "e, triumphantly. "Huh!" said the ther, disdainfully. "You're two years the visitor. "Oh. res." reniled i Goldrox. proudlv. "She' invoi whn qi,a nnt. r kee Sentinel, ilT . ' pltringly nsKea me 81elt thoroughbred. ::yacauon!" Tialr t,h?,work horse- ICaD B 0Ut . to .the. table ra anrt " and f'" 8 more tua" J r Set to ao' Chicago Tribune. No Neerl for Tnllrlno tw. u. --"'""& "vra baby uk yet?" asked a M-nd of the tamlly- "o." replied the baby's dls- ustel uttle brother; "the baby doesn't need to talk" "DoeBn't need to talk?" "No. All the hnhv hna -i In t. . - " . " 10 lvt yell and 11 Kets everything there Is In 'the house that's worth having." The tnlnUtor who aUr,n ... n. nuo OUWVIkCM nUCU lilW young lady declined an Introduction to some of his" parishioners. "Whv n,v ,denr young lady, did you ever think that perhaps you will have to mingle wiui these good people when you get to heaven?" "Well," she exclaimed,, "that will be soon enough." Life. Markley Subbubs may be Induced, to sell his house to me. He says It Isn't far out of town, either. Wisv. ..... Mine ,u only twelve miles from the City Hail Ainrklpv win- ha ti. Markley Why, he told me It was only ten mnes Dy the railroad. Wiss That's true; ten miles by the railroad and he walks the other two. Philadel phia Press. "But 'Mandy, If you can buy ribbom w I jvu tau uuy ri UD'JU; "ke that for forty-five cents a yard at 1Ittle store UP ner on the corner,. What'a th(t HBO nf irnlnn .11 ii. - " w. d w 1 A S all LU 13 WaV T l. town, and paying car fare both wavs to get it for forty-two cents? You i oti,i .. nm, yes. Papa always allows -"go irioune. Rnah for Robber. nrho Rnmimir a,..,. u.i.uie ur inaia savs- "The glowing accounts from Ceylon It rUt rubber trees will do will Zn , are convinced. In . m.u f t mr sensatlonal than that Bplcy Isle more sensational than that: e lcy K'ondlke." When the bovsUdiRn,Unday 1afternx1' On a farm Otl A Slindntt aSl.