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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1907)
LINCOLN GOUHTY LEADER cr.somt.pbiUM TOLEDO., .OREGON Cuba wants new blood. It ought to be a few degrees cooler than the home brand. The President's action concerning the Twenty-fifth Infantry has become a study In black and white. Summerfleld, Ohio, has a boy 15 years Of age who weighs 488 pounds. lie may be Secretary of War some day. If, as Prof. Lowell says, the people of Mars are our superiors, we suppose It will be In order for us to look up to them. Pretty hard on Count Bonl being cut off from all those millions, with the cost of living higher than It has been for twenty years. A wealthy Chicago girl Is going to marry a baseball player. Bet he won't pinch her and stick her with pins, like a count or a duke. Mrs. Russell Sage finds It difficult to give away $80,000,000 so as to make It do the most good. Her husband would have found It Impossible. A Nebraska woman Is seeking her third divorce from the same man. blie is simply practicing what that "trial marriage" advocate Is preaching. "We have enough railroads now," de clares E. II. Marrlwan. Mr. Harrlman may have enough, but there are millions of us popr people In the country who don't own a single railroad. The Buffalo Tliuee tails of a boy who took several ounces ef rough-on,-rati without suffering any evil affects; but It appears that he worked 1b a 4rag tore and took It to a customer. lost, If It has not been lost already ; and that so the best part of a college edu cation will be forfeited. The definite charge, by a writer In a recent number of the Outlook, that In one college at least this condition has already come to pass, brought out some Interesting cor respondence. One woman mentions a professor who not only knew all "his boys" while they were under his In struction and helped them by personal advice and friendly social Intercourse, but has kept In touch with every one of them since they were graduated. Once a year he sends them all a letter, and nearly all of them reply. The at mosphere Is almost like that of one great family. The misfortune of one Is the concern of all, and all help to repair It Other correspondents cite other colleges and other men to show that Intercourse between faculty and students Is growing more Intimate In stead of more remote ; and no one has considered It necessary to cite for every one knows the definite system which most of the colleges have for bringing all the students under the di rect personal Influence of some of the professors or other Instructors. Candid graduates of forty or fifty years ago, If they are familiar with present col lege conditions, nearly always admit that the relations to-day are simpler and more familiar. The old-time pro fessor, however beneficent his Influ ence, was too orten a man or austere dignity, which made him unapproach able. His modern representative may be regarded with less awe, but not with less affection. One thing must be remembered : It takes two to form a friendship as well as to make a quar rel. The student must meet advances half-way. If he does, there Is little danger In any college, large or small, that he will go through the coarse friendless .or without the helpful lnflu enoe of close' contact and acquaintance with "praeses et professores." If ii New York's board ef edieatleai has put Itself on record la opposition to. the new kind of spoiling. Tkls fart will oause Brander Matthews to teeall the Id proverb concerning fee saj not La bis own country. If they can be discovered fbe mm wha made a drunkest man la Hew Terk sleep with a pig are to be punished. Bat will the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals take no aetlon In behalf of the ether pig? According to President Roosevelt, a 80-cont lunch In a Panama restaurant Is good enough fox anybody. It Is Just possible, though, that the lunch set be fore President didn't look as much like 30 cents as the one served to the aver ago patron. "Story hour" Is a new feature oj li brary work among children which bus had marked success at the Carnegie Li brary of Pittsburg. Children come to the building at stated times and listen to stories told by a skilled narrator. In Boston the centennial of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen was cele brated last year by a gathering of a large and Interested audience of chil dren at the Public Library, to whom a ludy to.ld Andersen stories. It Is an expedient for providing wholesome en tertainment for children which ml gut well be adopted by all cities and large towns. Iceland Is now connected with Europe by cable, and the King of Denmark Is In direct communication with his sub jects on the northern Isle. Cables are built so fast that It Is difficult to keep track of them. There are about two hundred and fifty thousand miles of me tallic connection under the seas of the world, the average cost of which has been about a thousand dollars a ml! '. A quarter o,f a billion Is a great sum of money, yet It Is a small price to pay for communication between continent which send to each other an estimated total of six million messages a year. At Intervals of a few years we har that England Is scraping the bottom ef her cl mines and that In a relatively shert nine her fool supply will be ex haustod and she will nave to go out ef the manufacturing business. Still, En gland continues to mine coal In suffl eient enantltr fer her needs. LaMy however, the prophets have been In latent In their auguries ef woe, and the mare asserted that this time there ean be mistake. The exhaustion ef the Infllsa teal supply is In sight. Provident appears still to temper the wind te the shqrn lamb, however, for coincident with these gloomy outgivings comes the statement that new coal beds have been discovered near Dov-r whose value Is money Is estimated at $5,000,000,000. Leading geologists My that the discovery Is the most Import ant since the Norman conquest. Thm England Is granted a respite. Her man ufactures will not beconie extinct for lack of fuel not for a while, at least Still, the prophets of evil continue to prophesy. They calculate that not only the coal supply of England but of the whole world must within a certain time be exhausted and they demand to know what will become c,f humanity then The question Is Interesting, but hardly of contemporary importance. The anx lous ones concede that there will be years to come and we muy Justly ns- sume that we shall not be personally Interested In occurrences that far In the future. But even If we expected t live until all the coal and wood hid been burned we should still decline to be alarmed at the prospect We have great faith In the resources of the hu man Intellect. Poe said that the In genulty of man could not devise cipher or crypttr&Ph which the In genulty of man could not solve. Wi hold the same opinion with respect to any emergency that may confront th human race. Man rises to the necpn sltles of his existence. When the fuel that we now have is exhausted substi tutes will be found for It The resources of nature are Infinite and they are at the disposal of men acute enough to utilize them. The harnessing of the tides alone would produce enough pow er transformable Into heat to supply all humanity ten times over. That Is only one resource ; there are a dozen others, That May morn ing, eight years ago, when Dewey w- wltn hls fleet Bal1" fcMN ,s ed Into Manila T " harbor' tne Unlted states entered tne Japanese "sphere." From that moment Japan naturally has continued to watch with Inter est the American expansion In the Pacific. The an nexation of Ha waii by the United States proved to be a blow to Japa nese ambitions to the mastery of the great western ocean, and the bat tle of Manila Bay completed the discomfiture of Japan's pretensions. These well remonibered Incidents un doubtedly are responsible for much of the prophecies of a future war between the United States and Japan. There are other factors, of course, but the re membrance of the Japanese protest gainst the annexation of the Hawall- n Islands, In which action Russia was usually regarded as a kind of abettor. nd the generally believed report that the "Bushis" had offered the American government 1200,000,000 for the Philip pines before the Paris Peace Commis sion had drawn un the treaty with Spain, have undoubtedly prejudiced opinion ta favor ef a coming conflict Mar Faraatall a ChiI. If Japan really I a toads to draw the United States lnte a war which will eelde the supremacy ef the Pacific. It Is a foregone ceneluslen that the Ml- kade's government will force the fight ing before the completion ef the Pana ma oanaL To picture the Jami Young men who are wondering what opportunity the world holds out t) them when they leave college may be Interested In some figures given In the latest published report of the Unitnd States Commissioner of Education. The commissioner says that since 1890 there have been created an average of about a thousand new college professorships every year, and more than thirteen hundred new positions In the high schools and academies. Thus about twenty-three hundred new teachers have to be found annually, without making any allowance for the retire ment of many hundreds of ethers on uc count of age or other disability. It Is apparent that the man who wishes to live the scholarly life has ample oppor tunity In these days of popular education. By those who have watched the rapid growth of the colleges and universities fear are often expressed that personal contact between president and students, between professors and pupils, will be Identity Marks. They were riding through Indiana. "That man across there is from St Louis," said the observer. "How do you know?" asked the drummer. "He constantly looks In the mirror to see If bis face Is dirty." The drummer looked around a bit, and, tapped the observer upon the shoul der. "There's a man from Pittsburg," he said, indicating a passenger two seats behind. "How can you tell?" "Ills face actually Is dirty." St St Louis Post-Dispatch. Started In (or Htmaelf. Acquaintance Were you ever bun koed? Skinflint W as 17 Why, I was bun koed so many times that It taught me the game. Detroit Free Press. A man's honesty may be due to smallness of the bribe offered, f the Vnitbd States and Japan should go to War PluUppIn-, cnJ Hawaii would te ImnaoJIoVely d mercy F lillle brown men Ncrviey would likely determine cordet . r PEACE TooTWQ ARMY ' PEACE roOTlUQ ARMY 60,000 WAR W0TINQ r ill? WAR FCVJTINQ available for reilirqry.jdur'y 117.144 NAVY 4 first-class BarHeSn. t , , sjsi r i nil te 3C mML 1 NAVY "KJelcLtive. oli-englh. of Japan and V.o- seud against It Russia's Vladivostok fleet was regarded as a powerful fight ing machine, but one or two engage ments, principally by Japanese torpedo beats, made It quiescent Waal riht In the Baat. A eenfllet between Japan and the United Statu. In all probability, would have Its scene In the Far Cast This would mean that, as In the last two Eastern wars, the "Bushls" would be within easy distance of their base, while tbelr epponoat would be at the disadvantage of lighting thousands of WOULD 19 A VAT AX WAM. the waiting until the lnteroceanlc water way Is completed Is to underestimate their character in a manner Inconceiv able In view of recent events. At the present time the United States would be In a position analogous to that of the Russians when the Japs suddenly flew at their throats. The Russian Baltic fleet was about 12,000 miles from the seat of war at the beginning of the late conflict in the Far East, and the Atlantic fleet of the United States would be even far ther removed using the Sues Canal as the shortest route were It now call ed upon for similar service. The Jap anese navy Is now fifth in rank of the navies of the world, and the United States practically ranks as third, and at the end of the year 1008, according to present programmes, It will be ex ceeded In size only by that of Great Britain. A strong American squadron is main tained In Asiatic waters; yet. In the light of experience, this fleet could hardly hope to engage successfully such a powerful battle line as Japan could miles from his base. As Inconvenient as this state of affairs would prove to the naval -arm, It would be almost par alyzing to the military arm. The diffi culty Russia experienced In transport ing her armies over a slender railroad 6,000 miles long would be easy, com pared with the problem of sending at least half a million men by transports across the Pacific. Great Britain sent over 200,000 men to South Africa to fight the Boers, who had no navy to Interrupt communications, and many months were occupied In the taBk. Transports of troops from the United States to the Far East during the ex istence of a war would of necessity have to be convoyed by an enormous and powerful fighting fleet, which would be a drain upon our naval force. Philippine Attack Flrat. At the outbreak of such a war the Philippines naturally would be the Ini tial point of attack. Unless sufficient tune for preparation could be had, It Is to be conceded that the Islands would soon fall Into the hands of the attack lng force. It la also entirely probable that simultaneously the naval base at Hawaii likewise would be captured, and the cable Island, Guam, midway between Honolulu and Manila, gathered In with ease and celerity. Assuming such disasters to have taken place, the passage of either fleets or transports across the Pacific would be porlkms. One general naval engagement, how ever, might change the whole charac ter ef the prospect The part China would be sailed upon to play In a war of this ekarae ter, in view of the regeneration and re awakening which Is In progreoo la the Celestial Empire, la a far more ques tionable natter. In two years more China will have an excellent military system. An army of 000,000 will then be organized In a modern manner and put upon an active service footing. It Is true this military force, for some mysterious reason, has been raised only In the northern provinces. That the Japanese have been Instrumental In building up this military power Is an open secret But what Is the purpose of this big and efficient army? It Is not to be believed that the Japanese have erected a monster to devour them ; yet It Is agreed the Chinese do not, as a people, look upon the Japs with any kindly feelings, and rather resent their officlousness. Japan' Shrewd Tactic. It has been charged that the Japan ese Influenced the organization of the Chinese army In the northern Dro- vlnces In order to use It to repel any descent of the Russians .Into Manchu ria while the Japs were exploiting that rich region. The fact that the south ern provinces are unprotected and have- no army organization has been attrib uted to a shrewd move on the part of the Japanese to leave open a door by which, when the opportune time ar rives, they may conquer their neigh bors. While China has been encour aged to form a powerful army, she appears to have been actually discour aged from building a sultnble navy. Clearly China Is more or less dependent on Japan. If any conquests are to be undertaken, the Land of the Rising Sun Is to take the Initiative and man oge the undertaking. What position China would take In the event of a break In the harmonious relations between Japan and theUnlted States can only be left to conjecture. The progress of such a conflict un doubtedly would have some bearing oa the case. A glance at the present financial condition of Japan shows that the plucky, little country cannot afford the luxury of a war. If It Intends to go to war with either China or the United States it must postpone the evil day for some years. By that time the whole complexion of the situation In the Pacific may be changed by th opening of the Panama Canal. When that great work Is finished, It will require a strong nation to dispute the mastery of the western ocean with America. It Sem that War. "Say, pa," asked Willie, "what Is a 'nonagenarian,' anyway?" "A nonagenarian, my son," replied Willie's pa, "Is usually a man who has or has not used tobacco all his life." Philadelphia Press. From the present prospect, the wo man with a new fur coat is going to get more enjoyment out of life this winter than she did last
